Ramwold of St Emmeram

Saint Ramwold of St Emmeram was abbot of the abbey of St Emmeram at Regensburg in Germany and reposed around the year 1000 (the calendar gives 1001). He was born around 900, perhaps at Trier. He was first a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Saint Maximinus at Trier. In 975 Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg called him to Regensburg, where he was the first autonomous abbot of St Emmeram's Abbey. Under his leadership the abbey became an important intellectual and religious centre of its time, renowned above all for the art of book illumination.

He was blind for two years and then recovered his sight, and for this reason he is the patron of those with eye ailments. One source says that he died at the age of one hundred. He is commemorated on 17 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.