Saint Egino
Egino or Egon (* around 1065 probably in Augsburg, † July 15, 1120 in Pisa) was a monk and later a major Reformabt ( 1109-1120 ) at the Benedictine monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg.
Egino is Old High German and means " sword " and " fighter ".
Life
Given at a young age to the Benedictine monks of St. Ulrich and Afra, he was educated there and entered 1080 as a monk in the monastery. Because he had taken in the Investiture Controversy (1075-1122), who had also recorded his monastery, for the Pope and bishop against his party, he had to leave Augsburg 1098. He joined the Black Forest Monastery of St. Blaise, where he completed his training and in the service of Constance Bishop Gebhard III. (1084-1110) came. After the latter was able to return to his bishopric ( 1105), is Egino retired to a monastery. This monastery, which notably does not mention the Egino " biography" of the monk and later abbot Udalschalk is, with St. Georgen identified on the basis of the Vita Theogeri, the Life of St. Georgen Theoger abbot, abbot mentioned Augsburg ( just Egino ), with the help Theogers (1088-1119) monastic life in St. Afra reformed. This is in 1109, so in setting Eginos as abbot, have happened, but it is also the year 1113 discussed in historical research, when Egino proven ( in the wake Theogers? ) On the second consecration of the monastery church of St. Peter the Black Forest was. 1106 Egino returned back to Augsburg, where he was elected in 1109 to the Abbot of St. (Ulrich and ) Afra. Egino made as abbot for restoration of monastic discipline in St. Ulrich and Afra, but had recurrent disputes with the Augsburg Bishop Hermann of Vohburg to exist ( 1096-1133 ). The latter stood in the Investiture Controversy mostly on the side of the king. 1118 or 1120 Egino was expelled from his monastery. He therefore traveled to Pope Calixtus II after consultations with Rome and died on July 15, 1120 on the return trip in Pisa in St. Michele Camaldolese monastery, where his grave is still preserved.
About Egino his successor Udalschalk reported ( 1127- after 1151 ) in his paper "On Egino and Hermann" ( De Egino et Heri Manno ) in detail.
Egino is shown in monk's clothing as he chases the devil to flight. The name day for Egino or Egon is July 15.