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- c. 640, Mullagh, County Cavan?, Ireland
- Died:
- c. 689, WĆ¼rzburg, Franconia [Germany]
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St. Kilian
St. Kilian, statue on the Old Main Bridge in WĆ¼rzburg, Germany.
St. Kilian
Irish missionary
St. Kilian (born c. 640, Mullagh, County Cavan?, Irelandādied c. 689, WĆ¼rzburg, Franconia [Germany]; feast day July 8) was a missionary bishop who, with his companions Saints Colman and Totnan, gave his life for the Christianization of Thuringia and eastern Franconia. At WĆ¼rzburg about 689, all three were beheaded by orders of Duke Gozbert of WĆ¼rzburg, whom Kilian had supposedly converted and baptized. In 752 Bishop Burchard of WĆ¼rzburg had their relics solemnly transferred to his cathedral. Kilian is a favourite patron in the WĆ¼rzburg region and is venerated in Vienna and in Ireland.
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