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According to the older manuscripts, Modestus stayed in
Carinthia till his death; one late manuscript says he died in France. The most likely year of his death was 763, although other dates also appear in sources. No traces of his church of St. Mary have been discovered.
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responsible for the people in the countryside. Modestus received authority as a bishop, but probably, after the Irish custom, was without a definite see. It is only in the late anonymous life of
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