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Blessed Meinwerk Of Paderborn

Also known as: Meginwerk; Builder Bishop (nickname referring to the number of construction projects)

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

5-Jun

Died

1036 of natural causes; buried in the crypt of the church at Abdinghof Abbey; relics enshrined in Abdinghof on 25 April 1376; relics transferred to Busdorf, Germany in 1803 when Abdinghof was secularized

Biography

Blessed Meinwerk of Paderborn, also known as Meginwerk and the Builder Bishop, was born to the Immedinger nobility as the son of Imad, Count of Tesiterbant and Radichen. He hailed from a privileged background and was related to the Saxon royal family.

Cause for Canonization

Beatified
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