The Grand Tour of Switzerland Einsiedeln Abbey 🇨🇭

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Einsiedeln Abbey • Einsiedeln Abbey (German: Kloster Einsiedeln) is a Benedictine Catholic monastery in the village of Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The abbey is dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, in recognition of Meinrad of Einsiedeln, a hermit saint. A territorial abbey, Einsiedeln is not under the jurisdiction of a diocese or a bishop. • Einsiedeln Abbey has been a major resting point for centuries for pilgrims traveling to Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Spain on the Way of St. James. • The abbey operates a private high school along with a winery, sawmill, restaurant, and other small businesses in order to support itself. • The history of Einsiedeln Abbey starts with Meinrad of Einsiedeln. Born in 797 to an aristocratic German family, he was educated at the abbey school on Reichenau Island in what is today Germany. Meinrad became a monk and was later ordained a priest. After gaining public attention for reportedly performing miracles, Meinrad established a hermitage in 829 in the Einsiedeln forest of Switzerland, searching for privacy. He was murdered by two robbers in January 861. • Over the next 80 years, other hermits occupied Meinrad's hermitage. In 934 Eberhard, previously Provost of Strassburg, built the Einsiedeln abbey and church on the hermitage site, becoming its first abbot. According to legend, the church was consecrated in 948 in person by Jesus Christ the Four Evangelists, St. Peter, and St. Gregory the Great. Pope Leo VIII investigated and confirmed the miracle. It was last ratified by Pope Pius VI in 1793, who confirmed the acts of all his predecessors. • Source: • Einsiedeln Abbey • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsied... • #einsiedelnabbey #einsiedeln #switzerland

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