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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.

Commemorated the same day December 13