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Venerable

Deochar

A hermit and abbot in Franconia, reposed in 847.

Feast
June 7old style June 20
Reposed
8479th century
Place
Franconia

Life

Saint Deochar (also called Theutger or Gottlieb) was a hermit in Franconia in Germany and then the first abbot of the monastery of Herrieden. He reposed in the year 847. The sources preserve no further details of his life.

He is commemorated on 7 June among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day June 7