St. Pirmin.

He was born around 690. Rome, the British Isles, and Spain are considered likely places of birth, so his origin is unknown. However, we know that he became a missionary bishop and abbot in the diocese of Guntur (Latin: Dioecesis Aguntiensis). He was active in Argentoratum, the ancient name for Strasbourg. He preached the Gospel in regions where Alemannic dialects were spoken, as well as in Bavaria. Furthermore, he is primarily remembered as the superior of the monastery in Hornbach, Germany, and as the founder of monasteries in the Upper Rhine region.
Legends tell us that, as early as 711, he restored a monastery in Dissentis, Switzerland, which had been vandalized by the Avars, and then founded an abbey in Players. He began working as a missionary Bishop around this time. 720. He had previously been in Rome, where he had received the Pope’s approval and blessings for his missionary work, as well as recommendations for King Theodoric. In 724, he founded a monastery on the island of Rathenau (at the western end of Lake Constance, near the Swiss border) and equipped it with a library. Karl Martel gave him the island. Pirmín’s association with snakes as a symbol of paganism, which he had to combat, relates to his initial work on the island. After some time, he was reportedly expelled from the island by Duke Theobald and traveled to Alsace, where he founded a monastery in Murdoch in 727. He travelled to the Strasbourg area via the right bank of the Rhine. His activities in Ragaz, Switzerland, as well as in Niederaltaich, Bavaria, are also documented. He was abbot of Hornbach, located 10 km south of Saarbrücken, until his death at the age of over ninety. It is said that this was the last monastery he founded.

He left a manual for educating the people to his followers.

Miracles and healings at his grave in Hornbach led to a growing respect for him, and people began making pilgrimages. It is said that his remains were later transferred to Speyer, and then, in 1576, during the Reformation, to the Jesuit church in Innsbruck.