Andreas Oxner | |
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Child of Judenstein | |
Born | Anderl Oxner von Rinn c. 1459 Austria |
Died | 12 July 1462 (aged 3) Rinn, Austria |
Venerated in | Folk Catholicism |
Beatified | 1752 by Pope Benedict XIV |
Major shrine | Judenstein |
Controversy | Blood libel |
Catholic cult suppressed | 1994 by Reinhold Stecher |
Anderl (Andreas) Oxner von Rinn, also known as Andreas Oxner, (c. 1459 – 12 July 1462) is a folk saint of the Roman Catholic Church. A later writer alleged that the three-year-old boy had been ritually murdered by the Jews in the village of Rinn (Northern Tyrol, currently part of Austria).