Arno of Salzburg
Arn (or Arno) from Salzburg ( * after 740 in Isengau, Bavaria, † January 24 821 in Salzburg) was a Catholic abbot in the monastery of St. Amandus in Elno (now Saint- Amand- les -Eaux ), Bishop and later became the first Archbishop of the new Archdiocese of Salzburg and Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Peter.
The name Arn, latin and Aquila, is Old High German and means eagle '.
Life
Arno came from the Bavarian noble family of Fagana and was educated in Freising.
765 he was a deacon, consecrated 776 or 777 to a priest. He was a Benedictine monk of the monastery Elno ( Coenobium Elnonense ) in the County of Flanders, where he was from May 26, 782 Abt Tassilo III. 785 appointed him as the successor of Virgil Bishop of Salzburg. He received episcopal ordination on 11 June 785
787 he was trying to convey with Pope Hadrian I in favor of Tassilo in Rome. Arn was perhaps to those baierischen Great, the Duke Tassilo on the imperial synod 794 in Frankfurt an alliance with the Avars accused. After the fall of the Duke Arn was a friend of Charlemagne. After 788 he let make, which was confirmed by Karl 790 the Notitia Arnonis ( a list of the possessions of Salzburg ).
On behalf of the Frankish king, he traveled to Rome to 797 Pope Leo III. and obtained there on 20 April 798 the collection to the archbishopric of Salzburg, the suffragan Freising, Neuburg, Passau, Regensburg and Saeben were under. As the mission area belonged to him Karantania (Carinthia ) to Draumuendung and Pannonia, the Location of the Avars. He dedicated himself churches and priests in Awarenland and sent a mission priest named Ingo along with 13 other priests after Karantania who worked there, 785-798. Arno received the king 's permission to renew the Chorepiskopat of Carinthia, and ordered Theodoric († 821 ) for Regionarbischof ( Chorbishop ).
Alcuin, the adviser of the emperor, counseled Arno to reduce the Zehentlast for Karantania, not as in the case of the Saxons mission to provoke riots. Instead of the regular tithe, the tenth part of the annual fluctuations yields, Arno led therefore the so-called " Slawenzehent " as much lower and consistent delivery. The Slawenzehent was only in the 11th century, was a resistance no longer appears to be feared by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg († 1088) converted to the general tithe.
Arno accompanied 799 by Pope Leo III. , Who had fled to Charles, returned to Rome and was also on 25 December 800 at the coronation of Charles present in Rome.
He promoted in Salzburg and in Saint- Amand science and art, and was a friend of Alcuin and Angilbert. He had to create a library and prompted the recording of the history of Salzburg ( Annales Juvavenses maximus ).
Reception
On the occasion of the jubilee "1200 years archbishopric of Salzburg " was the land of Salzburg Arnoweg, wide hiking trail through the entire Salzburg, created.