Burchard of Würzburg

Burkard, Burkhard or Old English castle Heard (* 683, † 755 Homburg am Main ) was a native of South West England monk who set up in early 742 by Boniface the first bishop of Würzburg ( 742-754 ).

Life

As Boniface was also Burkard ( Burkhard ) of noble birth. His home was probably the western southern England. He, too, was like Boniface Benedictines.

The Anglo-Saxon Burkard, born around 683-685, was probably ordained with 30 years of Boniface to the priest and moved to 715 or shortly thereafter to the mainland for missionary work.

Burkard was from 738 with the highest probability first abbot in the monastery cell Rorlach, today Neustadt am Main.

He was the first bishop of Würzburg From the beginning, 742-754. The first time as bishop, he should still have been, according to the Chronicle of Lorenz Fries in Town.

He attended the synods of 742 to 747 on behalf of Pippin the Younger, he traveled together with Abbot Fulrad of Saint Denis, near Paris, 750/751 to Rome. There he took of Pope Zacharias permission for the dismissal of the last Merovingian - Childeric III. - A.

In his diocese Burkard was concerned mainly by strengthening them, because the franc despite the proselytizing by Kilian and his companions Kolonat and Totnan again tended to paganism. In 750 Burkard founded the monastery of Saint Andrew in Würzburg, which was later renamed St. Burkard.

According to tradition, he laid in the spring of 754 his offices and became a hermit at Homburg am Main, where he died the following year, 755. His remains were transferred on 11 October 988 in the monastery he founded in Würzburg.

Worship

In the Middle Ages the Feast of St. Burkard in the diocese of Würzburg has been hailed as the other high festivals. The Burkardusweck, a loaf of bread in a ring form, was a folk custom. Of the faithful of the holy Burkard is revered as a helper for joint pain and rheumatism, as well as stone and kidney disease, and lumbar pain. The Protestant and Roman Catholic feast of Saints is February 2; the collection of his bones is celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church on October 14.

Patrozinien

• St. Mary's Chapel ( Bad Kissingen )
• Parish Church of St. Burkard ( Beinwil )
• St. Burkhard ( Hohenfelden )
• St. Burchard ( Oedingen )
• St. Burkard (Würzburg )

Swell

• Vita Burkardi 1 and 2
• Chronicle of Lorenz Fries