Christian feast day: Blessed Rabanus Maurus

Rabanus Maurus

Archbishop of Mainz and writer (d. 856)

Rabanus Maurus Magnentius, also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis. He also wrote treatises on…