Blessed Abraham Of Strelna
Feast Day
4-Apr
Born
Late 11th-century in Strelna, Moravia (modern Czech Republic)
Died
4 April 1232 in his hermitage in Hradisko, Moravia (in modern Slovakia) of natural causes; buried alongside his three brothers in Hradisko in the Church of the Mother of God and Saint George, a structure all the brothers had worked to build
Biography
Blessed Abraham of Strelna, also known as Abraham of Hradisko, was born in the late 11th-century in Strelna, Moravia, which is now part of the modern-day Czech Republic. He came from a devout Christian family and had three brothers who also became Premonstratensian monks at the monastery in Hradisko, Moravia, which is located in what is now Slovakia.
Cause for Canonization
Books & Resources
Book of Saints, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0713653000
Monks, ://patrons-of-monks
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1612787169
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