Remigius of Strasbourg

Saint Remigius of Strasbourg (Remedius) was bishop of Strasbourg in the second half of the eighth century, who died on 20 March 783 or 782. Older tradition made him abbot of the monastery of Münster in Alsace, but this legend has been rejected by recent research, as has his supposed kinship with the family of Saint Odile.

He probably worked at Strasbourg already in the time of Bishop Heddo; it is not certain when he became bishop, perhaps from 765. After becoming bishop he went on pilgrimage to Rome, no earlier than 772, where Pope Hadrian I gave him the relics of Saint Sophia for the monastery of Eschau, which he founded. His will, of 778, preserved in a twelfth-⁠century copy, is the main source for his work; by it he gave the monastery of Eschau and that of Schönenwerd to the cathedral of Strasbourg. He wished to be buried in the crypt he had built, probably at Eschau. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 20 March (new style; 2 April in the old style).