
Right-Believing
Tassilo
Duke of Bavaria
Duke of Bavaria and a benefactor of monasteries, later a monk of Jumièges, reposed at Lorsch around 794.
- Feast
- December 13old style December 26
- Reposed
- 7948th century
- Place
- Jumièges Abbey
Life
Saint Tassilo the Right-believing was Duke of Bavaria from 748 to 788, the last of the house of the Agilolfings, son of Duke Odilo and, through his mother, grandson of Charles Martel. He was a benefactor of monasteries. In 788 he was removed by Charlemagne, and at the end he became a monk at Jumièges; he reposed around the year 794 at Lorsch.
He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church in the Western calendars.
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