Trudpert

Saint Trudpert (died around 607 or 644) was a missionary in Germany in the seventh century. He is generally called a Celtic monk from Ireland, but some consider him German. According to legend, he first went to Rome to receive from the pope authority for his mission; returning, he travelled along the Rhine to the Breisgau, the country of the Alamanni. A nobleman named Otbert gave him land near Münstertal in the Black Forest, about twenty-⁠five kilometres south of Freiburg. Trudpert cleared the trees and built a cell and a little oratory, which Bishop Martin of Constance later dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. He led an ascetic and laborious life. The noble also loaned him some serfs; according to tradition, he was murdered by two of them, around 644, and buried in his oratory, which became a site of pilgrimage.

In 815 his bones were translated and the first biography of him was written, revised in the tenth and thirteenth centuries. His reliquary is in the abbey church of Saint Trudpert. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 26 April (new style; 9 May in the old style).