Thursday, September 4, 2014

SAINT ADOLPHUS OF OSNABRUCK

Adolphus of Osnabruck
St. Adolf of Osnabruck
 Died June 30, 1224.
feast day : February 11
 Westphalian count of Tecklenburg, Saint Adolphus became a canon of Cologne but resigned to enter the
Cistercian monastery at Camp on the Rhein. In 1216, he was nominated and became the popular bishop of Osnabruck, where he was known as 'the almoner of the poor'.

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