Berthold, Heiliger#
Berthold, Saint, feast day July 27, d. Garsten (Upper Austria), July 27, 1142, Benedictine; descended from the Church governors of Regensburg. Prior in the monasteries of Saint Blasien (Black Forest) and Goettweig (1107), around 1111 first abbot of the monastery in Garsten, which he made a centre of reform. B. introduced the ideas of the "Hirsau Reform" into Austria.
Literature#
J. Lenzenweger, B. v. Garsten, 1958 (with Vita Bertholdi).