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3 unusual facts about Arnulf of Metz


Arnulf of Metz

According to this source, Arnulf's father was a certain Arnoald, who in turn was the son of a nobilissimus Ansbertus and Blithilt (or Blithilde), an alleged and otherwise unattested daughter of Chlothar I.

Walsdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate

Saint Arnulf’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Arnulf), Koblenzer Straße 16 – Classicist aisleless church, 1828.

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The annulet is Saint Arnulf’s attribute and the lily Saint Anthony’s, thus representing the municipality’s two patron saints, the former being Walsdorf’s and the latter Zilsdorf’s.


Abbey of Saint-Arnould

In 717, the Abbey took the name of St. Arnulf, due to the relics of Arnulf of Metz, Bishop of Metz being interred there in 641.


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