Wolfsindis of Reisbach

Wolfsindis of Reisbach is a regional saint of the Middle Ages in Lower Bavaria,[1] who is revered as holy virgin and martyr.

[2] According to legend, Wolfsindis became a Christian in secret and was slain by her heathen father, whereupon a spring rose up at that spot.

[2] A different tradition recounts that, as a Christian virgin, she was bound to the tail of a horse by a rejected suitor and dragged to death.

[1] The saint and her grave were revered at least since the 8th century, when the Bavarian duke Tassilo III (748–788) gave Reisbach to Wessobrunn Abbey in 760.

September 2 ihas been observed as Wolfsindis' death and feast day since old times.