Saints
Sigisbert and Placidus
Founders of the Abbey of Disentis in the Swiss Alps, commemorated together.
- Feast
- July 11old style July 24
- Reposed
- 8008th century
Life
Saints Sigisbert and Placidus are honoured together as the founders of Disentis Abbey in the Swiss Alps. Sigisbert founded the monastery of Disentis on land given him by Placid, a wealthy landowner who then joined the monastery as a monk and was later martyred for defending it. The sources are uncertain about the time: around 650, or perhaps 750.
They are commemorated on 11 July among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (saints of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.
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