Diemoth (Diemudus, Diemut, Diemud, Diemuth, Diemod, Diemudis) (born around 1060, died March 30, probably 1130) is the name of an ascetic at the Wessobrunn Monastery in Upper Bavaria, Germany. ("Diemoth" is the High German word for "humility" or "modesty"). He worked on 45 manuscripts from 1075 to 1130.
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Little is known about Diemoth's personal life. Most of our information is based on sixteenth century biographers. Many of these should be considered legends that are decorated rather than fact. According to the traditional version, he was born of a Bavarian or Swabian noble family, and when a child entered the convent the Benedictine monastery connected with the Benedictine monastery of Wessobrunn. This is almost certainly not true, since the Wessobrunn monastery is only male until at least in the year 1100 AD The monks will not take it to educate a young girl. Thus, it is far more likely that Diemoth entered the Wessobrunn monastery as an adult. His proficient handwriting shows proof of professional training, so the possibility of Diemoth not coming to Wessobrunn until after an active career as a professional clerk. His knowledge of Latin indicates that he was educated at an ecclesiastical institute, possibly a double monastery elsewhere in Germany.
Diemoth placed himself in a cell adjacent to the church, where he spent the rest of his life in prayer and copying precious books. Because of his beautiful handwriting he styled the "beautiful scribe". He copied about forty-five volumes, the most important being: the Bible; Moralia and other works of St. Gregory the Great; seven works of Saint Augustine; four from Saint Jerome; two from Origen; and about fifteen liturgical works.
Diemoth was a good friend of Herkula the Blessed One with whom he exchanged many letters while the latter was a hermit in the monastery of Epfach's neighbor. The letters were long kept in the Bernried monastery where Herluka spent the last years of his life, but they were unhappily victimized by attacks by Swedish forces during the Thirty Years' War. Some Diemoth manuscripts are still stored in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, where they were taken after the secularization of Wessobrunn in 1803.
Diemoth is buried in the basilica of Mary at Wessobrunn, next to the corpse of Abbot Thiento and six companions, who suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Hungarians in 955. In 1709 his body was transferred to the monastery of St. Peter's church. She is sometimes referred to as "Blessed," though she has never received a general honor and has never been formally beatified.
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- This article combines text from publications now in the public domain: Ã, Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " article name required ". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton.
- Robert Bertol (2006). "Diemut (auch Diemuth, Diemud oder Diemod) von Wessobrunn". At Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 26 . Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 265-267. ISBN: 3-88309-354-8.
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