Hl. Anton
† 1149
Provost in Ilbenstadt
† January 15, 1149
Anton was canon in Prémontré and became provost in Ilbenstadt in 1138. He defended the property of the monastery against claims by others.
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Hl. Arnold Janssen
* 1837, Goch on the Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia
† 1909
Ordensgründer
* November 5, 1837 in Goch on the Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia
† January 15, 1909 in Steyl / Steijl in the Netherlands
Arnold Janssen, the second of eleven children of the carter Gerhard and his devout wife Anna Katharina, attended elementary school, became an altar boy, and prayed the rosary with his mother every evening. In 1849 the talented student passed the entrance exam at the new Episcopal Gymnasium in his hometown. He then studied philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences in Münster and Bonn, was ordained a priest and from 1861 worked as a high school teacher in Bocholt. He recognized the importance of the press; With the ecclesiastical magazine The City of God full of secular subjects, he achieved huge print runs. From 1873 he published the magazine Kleiner Herz-Jesu-Bote to advertise the opening of a missionary school. Heal first, then teach, and only then baptize was his concept. In 1875 he opened a mission house in Steyl / Steijl in the Netherlands and founded the mission order Societas Verbi Divini, Society of the Divine Word – a foundation on German soil was not possible because of the culture war at the time. Other stores followed in Rome, in Mödling near Vienna, in Neisse – today’s Nysa in Poland, in St. Wendel, in Bischofshofen near Salzburg and in Techny near Chicago in the USA.
The missionaries went to New Guinea, Japan, South America, and the Philippines with the funds generated not least in their own printing plant in Steyl / Steijl. In 1889, together with Helena Maria Stollenwerk, the founding of the Servants of the Holy Spirit, called Missionary Sisters, followed in 1896 that of the Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration, also called Enclosed or Adoration Sisters. When Janssen died, there were already 2,000 religious working in ten countries.
Today the Divine Order Family has a total of 10,283 women and men: 5961 Divine Missionaries, 3892 Divine Missionary Sisters and 430 Divine Divine Adoration Sisters from 65 countries with hundreds of branches and thousands of schools and universities.
Arnold Janssen’s birthplace in Frauenstrasse in Goch is now a museum that has become a place of pilgrimage for visitors from all over the world. In 1983 the life and work of the film The Daring of Arnold Janssen by screenwriter and director Henri Walter was portrayed
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Hl. Gabriel
* 1543, Milan in Italy
† 1627
Ordersoberer
* around 1543 in Milan, Italy
† January 15, 1627 in Vienna, Austria
Camillo, Count of Ferrara, studied medicine and became a surgeon. In 1591 he entered the Hospitaller Order of the Brothers of Mercy with the religious name Gabriel. He wrote the Nuova Selva di Cirurgia in two parts, at that time the standard work of surgery, printed in Venice in 1596 and also translated into German.
In 1608 Gabriel treated King Sigismund III. successful from Poland and as a thank you got a hospital in Kraków in 1609, further establishments in Poland followed. The Austrian Emperor Matthias also offered him the establishment of a hospital; In 1614, the purchase contract for the house on Taborstrasse was signed, laying the foundation for today’s hospital with over 400 beds. Another hospital in Graz followed in 1615 due to a successful treatment of the Styrian Archduke Ernst. His brother Ferdinand II became emperor in 1619; He was on friendly terms with Gabriel and in 1624 endowed the Barmherzigen Brüder in Austria with numerous privileges, such as the right to collect public donations.
During the Thirty Years’ War Gabriel worked as field surgeon for the imperial troops in the Battle of the White Mountain near Prague in 1620. Further hospitals were founded in 1622 in Neuburg an der Donau and in 1625 in Trieste.
Gabriel’s bones rest in the Church of the Brothers of Mercy in Vienna’s Taborstrasse.
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Habakkuk
Prophet
certainly worked between 626 and 612 BC In Jerusalem in Israel
Habakkuk was a professional prophet at the temple in Jerusalem. He received visions and wrote down these and the instructions of God contained therein, which now form the book of prophets in the Old Testament named after him. Its content is the promise of God’s help for the people of Judah in the face of the threat posed by the Chaldeans (Habakkuk 1, 6).
Habakkuk became important for the Reformation and the development of the doctrine of justification through the quotation from him in Romans 1:17.
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Hl. Konrad II.
* Rhineland-Palatinate
† 1145
Abbot in Mondsee
* near Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate
† January 15, 1145 in Oberwang near Mondsee in Austria
Konrad II. Bosinlother was a monk in the Siegburg Abbey. Bishop Kuno of Regensburg appointed him abbot of the Mondsee Monastery in 1127, which was in the diocese of Regensburg. Conrad promoted monastic life, obtained the right of free election of the abbot with the Pope, the separation from Regensburg and direct subordination of the abbey to Rome. Konrad reclaimed goods from the monastery from feudal people and was murdered by them.
Konrad’s bones are kept in the Mondsee church.
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Hl. Maurus
* 510, Rom (?)
† 580
Abt in Subiaco
* at 510 in Rome (?)
† around 580 in Gaul
Maurus was the son of the Roman senator Equitius and the favorite pupil of Benedict of Nursia. He became Benedict’s successor in the monastery of Subiaco when he moved to the Montecassino. According to tradition, he rescued a monastery brother from the river and is said to have had extraordinary powers to heal the sick. Then he was sent to Gaul, where he founded the Glanfeuil monastery. Maurus distinguished his pious way of life, perfect obedience and deep humility. He is said to have died of the plague in Gaul around 580.
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Romedius
* Thaur near Innsbruck (?) In Austria
† 400
Einsiedler
* in Thaur near Innsbruck (?) in Austria
† around 400 or the beginning of the 8th or 11th century in Tavon am Nonsberg in South Tyrol in Italy
According to tradition, Romedius came from a noble family and gave his property to the dioceses of Augsburg and Trento to go on a pilgrimage to Rome. In Tavon am Nonsberg in South Tyrol he then lived with two companions as a hermit until his death. According to legend, he visited Bishop Vigilius of Trento while riding a bear.
This legend is made up of various sources.
A later date emerges from the history of his worship and extensive, controversial research. It is most likely that Romedius came from the Andechser family and lived in the 11th century. The veneration of Romedius at the grave in Tavon on the Nonsberg and the celebration of his memorial days in the diocese of Trento has been documented since the 12th century. The altar of the castle church in Tavon is consecrated to Romedius, a side altar to Wiltrud von Hohenwart, from whose monastery parts of the Romedius vita originate. Another part comes from Fiecht near Stans, where Romedius’ head and other relics have been kept since the donation by Emperor Heinrich IV. Until they were transferred to the church in Thaur in 1851. Other relics from Nonsberg were also brought there in 1951.
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Hl. John of Kalybit
* 420
† 460
Mönch
* a 420
† a 460
John entered the Irenaion Monastery in Constantinople – today’s Ístanbul – around 440, which was later called Akoimetenkloster and was located on the eastern bank of the Bosphorus in Gomon in Bithynia – today’s Anadolufeneri – or was moved there by him. Disguised as a poor man, he later came back to his parents’ house – like Alexios once did – and stayed there unrecognized in a hut – in Greek kalybe, hence the name kalybit. Shortly before his death he is said to have revealed himself by returning a gospel that he had once received from his parents.
Relics of John also came to Rome in the Church of S. Giovanni Calibita on the Tiber Island. His alleged gospel book is venerated on Mount Athos.
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