Coloman of Stockerau

Saint Coloman (Koloman, Kálmán, Colman, Colomannus) of Stockerau (of Melk) (died October 18, 1012) is a saint of the Catholic Church. He was a monk of either Irish or Scottish origin and of royal lineage who was accused of being a spy while on penitential pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He was stopped and killed at Stockerau, which lies about fifteen miles from Vienna, at a time when there were continual skirmishes among Austria, Moravia, and Bohemia. Coloman spoke no German, so he could not give an understandable account of himself. He was hanged alongside several robbers after he was tortured. In 1015, his relics were transferred to the Abbey of Melk by Bishop Megingard at the request of Marquis Saint Henry of Austria, however, decades later...