Holy Venerable Martyrs
Thiento and Companions
An abbot and monks of Wessobrunn, slain by the Magyars in 955.
Life
Saint Thiento and Companions were an abbot of Wessobrunn in Bavaria in Germany and six of his monks, slain by the Hungarians who invaded the land in the year 955.
They are commemorated on 10 August as saints of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details.
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