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Rasso
Bavarian count and pilgrim
Feast: 17 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Rasso of Andechs (also Rasso of Grafrath, Graf Ratt, Ratho, Grafrath, Rasso von Andechs) (c. 900–953) was a Bavarian count and military leader, pilgrim, and saint. He was the count (Graf) of Dießen-Andechs, leading the Bavarians against invading Magyars in the tenth century. However, there is no reason to doubt that there existed a count named Rasso who fought against the Magyars in the 950s.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, 19 June — "BD RATHO OF ANDECHS (a.d. 953) — The famous pilgrimage-place of Grafrath in Bavaria derives its name from Bd Ratho, Graf von Andechs... whose name is also written Ratto, Rasso, Rago and Rapoto."
- Wikidata Q881725 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Rasso (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.