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Gumbert

abbot and founder at Ansbach

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Feast: 15 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record

Who they were

At Ansbach in Franconia, now in Germany, Saint Gumbert, abbot, who founded this monastery on his own estate.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 15 July as the abbot who founded the monastery of Ansbach in Franconia on his own estate.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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