Gregory of Utrecht

Gregory of Utrecht (also Gregory of Pfalzel ) (c. 707/708; † August 25 775 or 776 in Utrecht) was a missionary and Dept. That he partly attributed office of a bishop of Utrecht he has not officially occupied, although the diocese has managed. He is venerated as a saint.

Life

He came from the noble Frankish family of Hugobertiner and was educated at the Palace School. He was a grandson of Adela, the founder of a woman community in Trier- Pfalzel. In the year 721 he joined there as a teenager Boniface. With this he went on mission trips to Thuringia and Hesse. He followed him 737/38 to Rome. Boniface saw in him to 742 his successor as organizer of the Church in the Frankish Empire. Probably because of differences with the Carolingians, it did not happen. His brother to have been involved in a crime against the Carolingians.

In the year 747 he became abbot of the monastery of St. Martin in Utrecht. Since 754 after the death of Boniface, he was head of the mission among the Frisians. Although he is regarded as bishop of Utrecht, he held this office actually nominally not stop. Officially, this office has held an assistant to him the Anglo-Saxon name Alubert, although the actual line in Gregory was. In Utrecht He was founder the cathedral school. One of his students was the future Bishop of Münster Liudger. This dedicated Gregor a memoir entitled Liudgeri vita Gregorii Abbatis Traiectensis

He was buried in the Abbey Susteren near Maastricht. The relic of his head is located since 1997 in an underground treasure chamber in the immediate vicinity of the church of St. Amelberga ( Minor Basilica ) in Susteren.

As relics holder serves a bust of 1885, which is hollow inside. In the cavity of his skull is kept. In addition, still bone relics of him in the outer crypt of the church.

His general Catholic and Protestant also feast day is August 25. In the diocese of Trier it is thought, on 26 August and in the diocese of Utrecht on November 8. The Merchants' Church in Erfurt is dedicated to him. In Trier - Pfalzel the local primary school is named after him.

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