!!!Merbot Merbod, Marbod, Seliger

Merbot (Merbod, Marbod), beatified, 
d. Alberschwende (Vorarlberg), March 23, 1120, monk in the 
Benedictine monastery Mehrerau, later hermit and pastor in 
Alberschwende, where he was murdered. According to legend descendant 
of the Counts of Bregenz and brother of the beatified Diedo in 
Andelsbuch and of the beatified  Ilga. Chapel built in the Middle Ages 
above M.´s grave in Alberschwende and rebuilt in 1752 is now a 
place of pilgrimage. Local feast day on the 1st Thursday in Lent.



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