Alto of Altomünster
Alto, O.S.B., (died c. 760) was a Benedictine abbot active in the Duchy of Bavaria during the mid-8th century. Tradition holds him to be the eponymous founder of Altomünster Abbey, around which a market town grew up, also called Altomünster. He is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
Patron saint of Diocese of Freising
In the Martyrology
- February 9 Saint Alto, founder and abbot of the monastery of Altomünster