Rupert of Bingen

Saint Rupert of Bingen was a young man of noble birth, born about 712 and dead about 732, venerated as a saint at Bingen on the Rhine. He is patron of Bingen-⁠Bingerbrück and of pilgrims. He was the son of the pagan Robolaus (Robold) and the Christian Bertha, who raised him in the Christian faith after his father's death.

At fifteen he made a pilgrimage to Rome with his mother. Returned home, he used his inherited wealth to build churches and houses on the family's lands. He lived with his mother on a hill by the river Nahe, near its confluence with the Rhine, later called the Rupertsberg, where they founded several hospices for the poor and needy. He died of a fever at about twenty and was buried in the church that he and his mother had built there.

Saint Hildegard of Bingen promoted his veneration and wrote his life (Vita Sancti Ruperti), probably based on traditions. On the Rupertsberg Hildegard founded in 1150 her first convent. He is commemorated on 15 May, by the Western calendar (new style). He is honored locally, without Orthodox synodal canonization.