Alban of Mainz on an anonymous Tyrolean painting c. 1500–1525.
Born
4th century
Died
5th century Mainz
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church
Feast
21 June
Attributes
Depicted holding his head in his hands (beheaded)
Patronage
hernia, epilepsy, gravel, kidney stones[1]
Alban of Mainz (Latin: Albanus or Albinus; supposedly died in or near Mainz[2]) was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr in the Late Roman Empire. He is venerated as Saint Alban of Mainz in the Catholic Church, not to be confused with Saint Alban of Verulamium.
^Patron Saints Index: Saint Alban of Mainz
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AlbanofMainz (Latin: Albanus or Albinus; supposedly died in or near Mainz) was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr in the Late Roman Empire. He...
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the destruction of St. Alban's Abbey in 1552, her tombstone was transferred to Mainz Cathedral, where it can be seen today in the wall of the southern nave...
Mainz (/maɪnts/; German: [maɪnts] ; see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 221,000 inhabitants...
one of the datable raids in 451. If the raid occurred in the migratory period, the raids in 451, 436, 406-407 or even 368 is possible - AlbanofMainz is...
part of his vision ofMainz as the "second Rome". This new cathedral was to take over the functions of two churches: the old cathedral and St. Alban's, which...
version of the 11th century, which calls him a bishop of Philippi. According to the 11th-century account, Theonistus, along with AlbanofMainz, Tabra...
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of St. Alban's Abbey, Mainzof 1298 ("Passio, inventio et translatio sanctorum Aurei et Justinae"). In the calendar of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz...
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married the Lotharingian duke Conrad the Red in 947 both buried in St. Alban's Abbey, Mainz. Initially buried in the St Maurice monastery, Edith's tomb since...
similar to that of its mother house, St. Alban's Abbey, Mainz. The monastery was a prime target for the Anabaptists in the German Peasants' War of 1525, and...
to house them. Later the relics were moved in 1298 to Saint Alban's Abbey, Mainz; part of the relics, however, ended up in the monastery at the Einhard-Basilika...
Pope Adrian I. Harald Klak, king of Jutland, and his followers were baptized at Mainz in 826, in the abbey of St. Alban's. Rabanus Maurus, a scholar and...
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