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…
- 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
Profile
Son of Duke Henry IX of Bavaria. Educated at Wiengarten Abbey in Ravensburg, Germany, and in Cologne, Germany. Joined of the Cistercians c.1124. Spiritual student of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in Cologne in 1147. Pilgrim to the Holy Lands as part of the spiritual Crusade, and died on the road.
Born
- 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
- Molfetta, Italy, city of
- Molfetta, Italy, diocese of
- Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi, Italy, diocese of
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Conrad of Bavaria“. CatholicSaints.Info. 24 November 2023. Web. 4 May 2024. <>