Alto of Altomünster
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| Saint Alto | |
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| Born | Ireland |
| Died | Bavaria |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Feast | 9 February |
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Saint Alto was the eponymous founder of Altomünster Abbey in about 750, a monastery in Bavaria around which a market town grew up, also called Altomünster.
Little is known about him: he is believed to have been a wandering Irish monk, and to have been a hermit at Munich and Augsburg. His feast day is celebrated on 9 February.
There is a Vita by Otloh of St. Emmeram of c. 1062.
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- Vita sancti Altonis ed. Georg Waitz, in: MG SS XV/2, 843 ff.
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