Aprunculus of Treves

Abrunculus (also Aprunculus, Aponculus ) ( † about 525/526 ) was after 511 Bishop of Trier. He is venerated as a saint.

Life

It may have belonged to the clergy, Theodoric I. heranzog to refresh the outdated Trier Church from Auvergne.

Unhistorical is the report that St. Gallus to have worked in Trier in his time, but this lived much later than Abrunculus.

The widespread lack of precipitation of his person and the other bishops of Trier end of the 5th and early 6th century in contemporary sources speaks for a relatively small (political ) importance of Trier Church at this time.

Year of his death was closed for the inauguration of his successor Nicetius.

Afterlife

He was buried in probably an oratory at the site of St. Symphorian in Trier. Since the end of the 6th century it was revered as a saint. He is listed in the Martyrology Hieronymianum. Even Gregory of Tours calls him. In Trier there since the 10th century reports of his worship. Also in Auxerre, Autun or in Gellone in the Languedoc was worshiped. A portrait of him is found in the Egbert Psalter. Some parts of the relics took Abt Thietmar next to the bones of the holy Modoald with the Saxon monastery Helmarshausen. By 1047 his remains were transferred to St. Paulin. There, his grave was in a small crypt under the altar Clemens before the chorus. From there they came in 1136 in the monastery Springiersbach. Parts of the bones came at this time possibly in the Abrunkuluskapelle in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral at Trier. The remains of the bones in St. Paulin 1674 were brought into the city before the destruction of the pen. It is also a lead plaque was removed with an inscription from the coffin and placed later in a reliquary. In the area of ​​Trier is Abrunkulus patron of the church in Besselich and Izzy.

His feast day is 21 or April 22.