Blessed Rabanus Maurus

Blessed Rabanus Maurus, also known as Hrabanus Maurus, Maurus Magnentius Rabanus, Reabanus Maurus, or Rhabanus Maurus, was born in 776 in Mainz, Germany. He grew up in the abbey in Fulda, where he received his education and later became a spiritual student of Saint Alcuin of Tours and Saint Eigil.