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Icon of St. Emmeramus, Bishop
of Ratisbon
Feast: September 22
In the
above icon St. Henry II is crowned. On the right St. Emmeram holds up
St. Henry's hand as he were another Moses praying for the people.
St.
Emmeramus or Emmeram was a missionary bishop who travelled across Gaul
and Germany. He preached the Orthodox Faith in Bavaria but was murdered
by assistants of the king there, upon Sept. 22, in the late 8th c. Holy
Father Emmeram, pray to God for us!
Icon of unknown provenance.
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