Rabanus Maurus
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Rabanus Maurus Magnentius, also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He w
Rabanus Maurus (left) with Alcuin presents his work to Otgar of Mainz (right). Illustration from a Fulda manuscript, c. 830–840.
Page from Rabanus' De rerum naturis
In Honorem Sanctae Crucis, 13th century, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
Mainz
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Mainz is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in the Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region
Rabanus Maurus
…Martyrologium Romanum, 2004, p. 133), his feast is given as 4 February and he is qualified as a Saint ('sanctus'). Rabanus was born to noble parents in Mainz. The date of his birth remains uncertain, but in 801 he was ordained a deacon at the Benedictine Abbey of Fulda in Hesse, where he was schooled and…
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