Detail Of The Reliquary Of Blessed Conrad Of Molfetta Date And Artist Unknown Cathedral Of SaintConrad De Molfetta Italy Photographed On 10 June 2011 By Pramzan Image

Blessed Conrad Of Bavaria

Also known as: Conrad di Baviera; Conrad of Chiaravalle; Conrad of Clairvaux; Conrad of Molfetta; Conrad of Bayern; Conrad the Confessor; Conrad the Guelph; Corrado…; Konrad…

Blessed

Post-Congregation

Feast Day

17 March; 9 February (translation of relics; diocese of Molfetta, Italy; Cistercians); 15 February on some calendars; 10 July on some calendars; second Sunday of July on some calendars

Born

1105 Veitsburg, Baden-Württemberg (in modern Germany

Died

1154 at the Santa Maria ad Cryptam Benedictine monastery near Modugno, Italy of natural causes; interred in a cave near the monastery, a traditional resting place for the monastery‘s dead; relics translated to the cathedral of Molfetta in 1785; reliquary restored and relics re-enshrined in August 2007

Beatified

1832 by Pope Gregory XVI (cultus confirmation)

Biography

Blessed Conrad of Bavaria, also known as Conrad di Baviera, Conrad of Chiaravalle, Conrad of Clairvaux, Conrad of Molfetta, Conrad of Bayern, Conrad the Confessor, Conrad the Guelph, Corrado, or Konrad, was born in 1105 in Veitsburg, Baden-Württemberg, in modern-day Germany. He was the son of Duke Henry IX of Bavaria, belonging to the noble House of Welf.