Alto of Altomünster

Saint Alto
Born	Ireland
Died	Bavaria
Honored in	Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast	9 February

Saint Alto was the eponymous founder of Altomünster Abbey in about 750, a monastery in Bavaria around which a market town grew up, also called Altomünster.

Little is known about him: he is believed to have been a wandering Irish monk, and to have been a hermit at Munich and Augsburg. His feast day is celebrated on 9 February.

There is a Vita by Otloh of St. Emmeram of c. 1062.