The Monastery at Gandersheim
Hrotswitha recorded the history of the monastery at Gandersheim in her poem
Promordia Coenobii Gandershemensis. According to Hrotswitha, the
monastery was founded in the year 881 by Duke Liudolf and his wife Oda, at
the encouragement of Oda's mother Aeda. Aeda had seen of vision of St. John
the Baptist, who assured her that her child would found such a monastery.
In order to establish the cloister, Liudolf and Oda first made a
pilgrimage to Rome for the blessing of the Pope. They were given sacred
relics, bones of the saints Anastasius and Innocent. Thus, these two
became the patron saints of Gandersheim.
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