SAINT
saint-simpert
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Simpert was an abbot, bishop, and confessor of the late-8th and early-9th centuries, and was supposedly the nephew of Charlemagne. He was educated at Murbach Abbey in Alsace, where he took the Benedictine habit and was elected abbot. In 778, he was appointed bishop of Augsburg by Charlemagne. He consolidated and strengthened the jurisdiction of his bishopric and lived alternately at Neuburg an der Donau, at Staffelsee Abbey, and at Augsburg.
feast Day
10-13
patronages
- Augsburg
birth Date
750
death Date
807-10-13
canonization Status
canonized
canonization Date
6 January 1468
canonized By
Pope Paul II
feast Month
10
feast Day Of Month
13

