Piligrim

Pilgrim of Passau (also: Piligrim, Pilegrinus, Peregrinus ) (c. 920; † May 21 991 in Passau ) was the 18th Bishop of Passau.

Life

Pilgrim came from the Bavarian nobility. Father's side he was a victory Hardinger, maternal Aribone. He received his education in the monastery Niederaltaich. Presumably he was there also canon.

In 971 Emperor Otto I appointed him Bishop of Passau. As he stood on the side of the Emperor Otto II in the rebellion of the dukes of Bavaria, Henry II and Henry I of Carinthia, Passau was 977 besieged and destroyed. Pilgrim received by the Emperor possessions in the marrow in the East and attended there for reconstruction after the Magyar invasions. From 985-991 he held three diocesan synods from Lorch, Mautern and mistletoe bei Wels.

Pilgrim promoted missionary work among the Magyars, who was successful by the baptism of the Árpádenfürsten Géza and his son Stephan in 975 or 985. He called the Holy Wolfgang on the mission Hungary and raised him as Bishop of Regensburg.

He failed to get the Metropolitan rights over Moravia and Hungary. He wanted to Passau rise to an archbishopric and has possibly hand made ​​the Lorcher fakes. He wanted the diocese of Passau as the legal successor of the ancient Archdiocese Lauriacum (now Lorch ) prove.

End of the 12th century, he was temporarily venerated as a saint. A literary memorial to him at the same time probably the most active in Passau poet of the Nibelungenlied, who described him as uncle of Kriemhild. The supplemental seal of the Nibelungs lawsuit wrote Pilgrim to even the initiative to record the incredible events of the Nibelung destruction in Latin. This is probably a literary fiction.