The founding abbess of Nonnberg Abbey, the oldest continuously inhabited convent north of the Alps. Niece of Saint Rupert of Salzburg, who founded the abbey for her around 714 AD.

Patron saint of Austria, patron saint of firefighters, and one of the most recognisable saints in the Alpine world. His statue stands at the Florianibrunnen on the Alter Markt, one of the most photographed corners of Salzburg's Altstadt.

The founding father of Salzburg. Around 696 AD, Rupert established the two oldest religious institutions in the city: Stift St. Peter and Nonnberg Abbey. He consecrated the ground where Salzburg Cathedral would later rise, making him the single most important figure in Salzburg's origin story.

The man who kept organised Christianity alive in the Salzburg region during the collapse of the Roman Empire. The direct predecessor to Saint Rupert of Salzburg, and the connecting thread between Roman and medieval Salzburg.

The Irish-born bishop and scholar who built the first great Salzburg Cathedral in 774 AD. Served as Abbot of Stift St. Peter and Bishop of Salzburg for over three decades, and was reportedly one of the first European thinkers to argue that the Earth was a sphere.