Blessed Hemma of Gurk
Feast day: June 27
Born c. 980
Hemma of Gurk, also called Emma of Gurk, was a noblewoman, Fürstin (princess) and founder of several churches and monasteries in the Duchy of Carinthia. Buried at Gurk Cathedral since 1174, she was beatified on 21 November 1287 and canonised on 5 January 1938 by Pope Pius XI. Her feast day is 27 June. Hemma is venerated as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, and as patroness of the current Austrian state of Carinthia.
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