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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.

birth place
Ireland
death place
Bavaria
venerated in
Eastern Orthodox Church, Catholic Church

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