The priest and hermit, who came from a noble family and was later canonised, was born around 495 in Aquitaine (French countryside or former English county between the Pyrenees and Loire) and died in 575 in what is now St. Goar, south of Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate). His name means "God is strong" and he is commemorated on 6 July. After his ordination as a priest, he travelled from Aquitaine to the Rhine at the age of 24 and built a cell on the site of his current patron saint's church in the parish of St. Goar on the Middle Rhine, which is named after him.

Picture left: Monument in the parish of St Goar. Picture right: View of St. Goar from the Rhine footbridge over Katz Castle
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