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RUPERT (HRODBERT), ST

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 855 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUPERT (HRODBERT), ST , according to the Gesta Sancti Hrodberti, which See also:dates from the 9th See also:century, was a kinsman of the Merovingian See also:house, and See also:bishop of See also:Worms under See also:Childebert III. (695-711). At the invitation of th! See also:duke of See also:Bavaria, Theodo II., Rupert went to See also:Regensburg (Ratisbon), where he began his apostolate. He founded the See also:church of St See also:Peter near the Wallersee, and subsequently, at See also:Salzburg, the church of St Peter, together with a monastery and a dwelling for the clerks, as well as a See also:convent for See also:women " in superiori See also:castro Iuvavensium." He died and was buried at Salzburg. He is regarded as the apostle of the Bavarians, not that the See also:land was up to that See also:time altogether See also:heathen, but because of his services in the promotion and consolidation of its See also:Christianity. See Bibliotheca hagiographica See also:Latina (See also:Brussels, 1899), n. 7390—7403; W. Levison, " See also:Die alteste Lebensbeschreibung Ruperts von Salzburg " in Neues Archiv See also:fur aeltere deutsche Geschichtskunde, See also:xxviii. 283 seq.; Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands (3rd ed.), i. 372 seq. (H.

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