Hemma of Gurk

Saint

Hemma of Gurk

Margravine an der Sann
Hemma of Gurk Wearing the Order of the Swan by Sebald Bopp, c. 1500[1]
Bornc. 995
Died27 June 1045 (aged 49–50)
Gurk, Carinthia
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Beatified21 November 1287
Canonized5 January 1938 by Pope Pius XI
Major shrineCrypt of Gurk Cathedral
Feast27 June
AttributesDepicted as a noble lady with either a model of a church, a legal deed or a rose, or distributing alms.
PatronageDiocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt; State of Carinthia; invoked during childbirth and against diseases of the eye; extreme hangovers

Hemma of Gurk (German: Hemma von Gurk; c. 995 – 27 June 1045),[2] also called Emma of Gurk (Slovene: Ema Krška), was a noblewoman and founder of several churches and monasteries in the Duchy of Carinthia. Buried at Gurk Cathedral since 1174, she was beatified on 21 November 1287 and canonised on 5 January 1938 by Pope Pius XI.[3] Her feast day is 27 June.[2] Hemma is venerated as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, and as patroness of the current Austrian state of Carinthia.

  1. ^ Depiction of a woman in a Croatian traditional costume wearing a badge of the Brandenburgian Order of the Swan, possibly the portrait of Beatrice de Frangepan, spouse of Margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
  2. ^ a b 29 June according to Gurk Cathedral Archived 2006-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Hourihane 2016, p. 256.