Gotthard of Hildesheim

Saint

Gotthard
St. Gotthard as bishop, with the Hildesheim St. Mary relic receptacle; Basilica St. Godehard, Hildesheim
Born960
Reichersdorf, Bavaria
Died5 May 1038
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized1131, Rheims by Pope Innocent II
Feast5 May
Attributesdragon; model of a church[1]
Patronagetravelling merchants; invoked against fever, dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout;[2] invoked by those in peril of the sea[3]
Wooden statue of St. Gotthard, carved about 1505, Cath. Church in Schellerten-Farmsen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Gotthard (or Godehard) (960 – 5 May 1038 AD; Latin: Gotthardus, Godehardus), also known as Gothard or Godehard the Bishop, was a German bishop venerated as a saint.

  1. ^ "Godehard (Gotthard) von Hildesheim - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon".
  2. ^ Schmucki, Ottaviano. "San Gottardo di Hildesheim", Santi e Beati, June 22, 2002
  3. ^ Charles Lamb, Elia (Scott, Foresman and Company, 1911), 328

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