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Herman was born a cripple in Altshausen, Swabia. He was so terribly deformed he was almost helpless. He was placed in
Reichenau Abbey in Lake
Constance Switzerland, in 1020 when he was seven and spent all his
life there. He was professed at twenty, became known to scholars all over
Europe for his keen mind, wrote the hymns Salve
Regina and
Alma Redemptoris
mater to Our Lady, poetry, a universal chronicle, and a mathematical treatise. He died at
Reichenau on September 21 and is …
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