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Saint Meinrad (c. 797 – 21 January 861) was a hermit and a Roman Catholic saint. Meinrad was born into the family of the Counts of Hohenzollern and was educated at the abbey school of Reichenau an island in Lake Constance under his kinsmen Abbots Hatto and Erlebald. There he became a monk and was ordained. After some years at Reichenau the dependent priory of Benken St.
