His bold rebuke of the open scandal given by the conduct of the ruling prince, was the immediate cause of his obtaining this favour.

St.Kilian was assassinated at midnight, while singing the Divine Office, with two of his faithful companions.

Their remains were interred in the church of Wurtzberg, where St.Kilian is still revered as its patron and apostle.
We can but name St.Mailduf, from whom Malmsbury has been named; St.
Livin, who converted the inhabitants of Flanders and Brabant; St.
Cataldus and his brother, St.Donatus, the former patron of the metropolitan see of Tarentum, and whose name is still preserved in the little town of _San Cataldo_, the latter Bishop of Lecce, in the kingdom of Naples, and both famous for miracles and sanctity of life; St.
Virgilius, called in the ancient annals "Ferghil the Geometer," and by Latin writers Solivagus,[185] or the "solitary wanderer," who died Bishop of Saltzburg, distinguished for literary fame; St.Fridolin, "the traveller," son of an Irish king, who evangelized Thuringia, and was appointed by the Pope Bishop of Buraburgh, near Fritzlar, in the year 741; St.Sedulius the younger, who wrote commentaries on Holy Scripture, and assisted at a council held in Rome, in the year 721, under Gregory II.

It is noticeable that this saint was consecrated Bishop of Oreto, in Spain, while in Rome.

When he entered on the mission thus confided to him, he wrote a treatise to prove that, being Irish, he was of Spanish descent; thus showing that at this period the idea of a Milesian origin was common to men of learning in Ireland.[186] But if Ireland gave saints and martyrs to foreign lands, her charity was in some measure repaid in kind.