Clementia Killewald

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Abbess mother Clementia Killewald and Pope Benedict XVI. in October 2012

Clementia Killewald OSB (* as Elisabeth Killewald on April 25, 1954 in Duisburg ; † July 2, 2016 in Rüdesheim am Rhein ) was a German Benedictine nun and abbess of Rupertsberg and Eibingen .

Life

Elisabeth Killewald grew up in the pilgrimage site of Kevelaer on the Lower Rhine and in Dinslaken in the diocese of Münster . After graduating from Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium in Geldern , she first studied at the Mainz University of Music . In 1976 she entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Hildegard in Eibingen, which belongs to the Beuron congregation , was given the religious name Clementia for clothing and made her first profession on April 25, 1979 .

After her profession, she was first an organist and a member of the Schola , then head of the infirmary. In the summer of 2000 she was elected abbess by the convent to succeed M.  Edeltraud Forster and on October 3, 2000 she was appointed by the Limburg bishop Franz Kamphaus , who came from her home diocese of Münster . This made her the 39th successor to St. Hildegard von Bingen . As her motto, mother Clementia Dominus chose ipse faciet , “the Lord will bring it about”.

For several decades, the abbess of Rupertsberg and Eibingen has been leading the solemn festival of St. Hildegard, the Eibingen relic procession , during which the reliquary of St. Hildegard is carried through the streets. When Hildegard was promoted to Doctor of the Church on October 7, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. During the liturgical celebration on St. Peter's Square , Mother Clementia gave a brief overview of their life and work, before Cardinal Prefect Angelo Amato asked the Pope for the declaration.

On May 27, 2016, the abbot praeses of the Beuron congregation, Albert Schmidt , accepted the resignation she had brought forward for reasons of illness . Mother Clementia, a biological sister of Norbert Killewald , died on July 2, 2016 after a serious illness. The day of death on July 2 is the day the monastery was founded (July 2, 1900), the anniversary of the expulsion of the convent by the Gestapo (July 2, 1941) and the anniversary of the return from exile (July 2, 1945). The exsequies took place on July 9th in the abbey church, the burial in the monastery cemetery. Sr. Dorothea Flandera OSB was elected as her successor on August 2, 2016 .

Editions

Activity as editor of the works of Hildegard von Bingen:

  • Hildegard von Bingen, know the way . Works Vol. I, ed. from St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen, newly translated by Mechthild Heieck. Beuroner Kunstverlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-87071-211-2 .
  • Hildegard von Bingen, origin and treatment of diseases. Causae et Curae . Works Vol. II, ed. by the St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen, newly translated by Ortrun Riha . Beuroner Kunstverlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-87071-248-8 .
  • Hiltrud Gutjahr OSB, Maura Záthonyi OSB, seen in living light. The miniatures of the Liber Scivias of Hildegard von Bingen, explained and interpreted. With an introduction to art history by Lieselotte Saurma-Jeltsch, ed. from the St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen. Beuroner Kunstverlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-87071-249-5 .
  • Hildegard von Bingen, Lieder Symphoniae. Works Vol. IV, ed. from St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen, newly translated by Barbara Stühlmeyer . Beuroner Kunstverlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-87071-263-1 .
  • Hildegard von Bingen, Heilsame Creation - The natural power of nature. Physica . Works Vol. V, ed. by the St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen, newly translated by Ortrun Riha. Beuroner Kunstverlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-87071-271-6 .
  • Hildegard von Bingen, The Book of God's Work - Liber Divinorum Operum . Works Vol. VI, ed. from St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen, newly translated by Mechthild Heieck. Beuroner Kunstverlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-87071-272-3 .
  • Hildegard von Bingen, letters. Epistulae . Works Vol. VIII, ed. from the St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen. Beuroner Kunstverlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-87071-285-3 .
  • Barbara Stühlmeyer, Sabine Böhm, Virtues and Vices. Signposting in dialogue with Hildegard von Bingen , ed. from the St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen. Beuroner Kunstverlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-87071-287-7 .
  • The life of St. Hildegard von Bingen. Vitae sanctae Hildegardis. Works Vol. III, ed. by the St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen, newly translated by Monika Klaes-Hachmöller with an introduction by Michael Embach. Beuroner Kunstverlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-87071-262-4 .
  • Hildegard von Bingen, the book of life earnings. Liber vitae meritorum. Works Vol. VII, ed. from the St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen. Translated and introduced by Sr. Maura Zatonyi OSB. Beuroner Kunstverlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-87071-314-0 .

Radio and television

  • Church in SWR : Andrea Emmel meets Sr. Clementia. Sunday September 16, 2012.

Honors

Dedications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abbess Clementia Killewald OSB went home on July 2nd. St. Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen, July 3, 2016, accessed on July 3, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Abbess Clementia ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Biography
  3. ^ Film excerpt from the ceremonial address by Abbess Mother Clementia and the procession of relics on September 17, 2011.
  4. ↑ Erbe und Arbeits , Vol. 92 (2016), p. 245
personal data
SURNAME Killewald, Clementia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Killewald, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nun, abbess of Rupertsberg and Eibingen
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2016
Place of death Rudesheim am Rhein