Eberigisil

Everigisil (us), also Evergislus or Eberigisil, (* in Tongeren; ? † ibid. 594 ) was the fifth Bishop of Cologne, and will, according to Heriger of Lobbes, also the fifteenth bishop of Maastricht have been.

Everigisil received his theological training in Cologne. He was the first bishop of Cologne, who wore a name Frankish origin. Everigisil was repeatedly mentioned by Gregory of Tours as bishop of Cologne, but because he always uses the past tense, it must be assumed that a death before 594. Connects him with Gregory of Tours ( Libri miraculorum I 61 ) the first mention of the cult of the martyrs of the Theban Legion in Cologne, by this to have been healed by his own message of headaches. It may be assumed that Everigisil promoted the cult, perhaps even justified.

During his tenure as Bishop of Cologne, he is said to have a church in honor of St. Mallosus built in Birten at Xanten. Archaeological this construction, however, is no longer detectable. Also found in medieval sources its participation in a summoned by King Childebert II meeting. Well-known and popular among the people Everigisil was because of his diplomatic skills.

According to medieval sources of his death to have been the 14th of September. It is, Everigisil had died either in Tongeren, or in a place called Trutmonia (Dortmund? ) Martyred. The Archbishop of Cologne Brun has convicted the alleged bones of the Tongeren Everigisil (or Trutmonia ) to Cologne in 955. The bones were then issued Everigisils and venerated in the Church of St. Cecilia Cologne in a precious shrine. 1802, when Cecilia was no longer collegiate church, the remains were transferred to St. Peter, where they still are in the side chapel. The confiscated during the French period gold fittings of the relics loading were renewed in 1837 with gilt brass fittings. In the last opening of the shrine in January 2012 (with the right physician Karl -Heinz SCHIWI - Bochat ) next to textile waste remains were found by two people. From one of the many previous openings (most recently 1889) bears witness to a deed, the Albertus Magnus 1270 exhibited.

The Holy Everigisil is the patron saint of the glasses and the Cologne painters' guild. The feast of Saints is the 24th of October.

In the Archdiocese of Cologne him two Catholic parish churches are dedicated to St. Evergislus in Bornheim- Brenig and St. Evergislus in Plittersdorf.