Feast June 27
Blessed Hemma of Gurk
Blessed · Religious founder · Feast June 27
Biography
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.
Feast day
June 27
Birth date
980 (973 by some sources)
Canonization status
Beatified
Feast month
6
Wikidata qid
Q269074
Feast day of month
27
