Saint Sebaldus | |
|---|---|
 Saint Sebaldus by Sebastiano del Piombo in Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice | |
| Died | c. 770[1] |
| Venerated in | |
| Canonized | March 26, 1425 by Pope Martin V |
| Major shrine | St. Sebaldus Church |
| Feast | August 19 |
| Attributes | pilgrim with a staff ; later represented with the model of his church[2] |
| Patronage | against cold and cold weather; Nuremberg; Bavaria |
Sebaldus (or Sebald) was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to Germany in the 9th or 10th century. He settled down as a hermit in the Reichswald near Nuremberg, of which city he is the patron saint.[3][4]
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Sebaldus
- ^ Husenbeth, Frederik Charles. Emblems of Saints: By which They are Distinguished in Works of Art, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860, p. 148
- ^ Basil Watkins, The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary, 8th ed. (Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 667–668.
- ^ Schäfer, Joachim (22 June 2021). "Sebaldus von Nürnberg". Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ['Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints'] (in German). Archived from the original on 6 December 2022.