The new saint

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Sebastiano Bombelli (1666): Elector Ferdinand Maria (1636–1679) and his wife Henriette Adelaide (1636–1676)

The new saint is a story by Ricarda Huch that was published by Schuster & Loeffler in Leipzig and Berlin in 1910.

The Protestant Ricarda Huch covers the Catholics with fine mockery.

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Bavaria after the Thirty Years War around 1659 : A Crown Prince must finally be born. The Munich Capuchin Father Gumppenberg and Father Wildgruber are worried. The marriage of their sovereign, Elector Ferdinand Maria , to Henriette Adelaide of Savoy remained childless for years. In addition, Henriette, who comes from Turin , doesn't really feel at home in the Frauenkirche . A new church , in a sense the home for the Vicentine Cajetan , was needed . First of all, the two clergymen, Gumppenberg and Wildgruber, prevent the elector from fulfilling the beautiful young elector's most ardent wish. A church for this new saint Cajetan is not being built.

Regarding childlessness, the two fathers remember Maria Anna , mother of the ruling elector. She became pregnant after a pilgrimage to the wooden Maria in Alt-Ötting . Henriette has a mind of her own, but finally shows herself willing to compromise and makes a good pilgrimage to Andechs . The Fathers give the Electress a strong Tyrolean boy. Perhaps the handsome noble young man will work the miracle. This is where the two calculating Bavarian clergymen are wrong. The South Tyrolean proves to be polite and reserved. Instead, Captain La Perouse, commander of the escorts, approaches the Electress. When the Chevalier La Perouse, whom Henriette has known since her childhood in Turin, becomes intrusive in Munich soon after returning from the Andechs pilgrimage, she rejects the courtier.

Against the resistance of the two fathers, the construction of the church for the new Saint Cajetan is now seriously considered as the very last means of fulfilling the special wish for children. If Henriette gives birth to a boy, the church should be built as thanks. Elector Ferdinand Maria changes the order. First the church is to be built so that the new saint may have mercy. That's how it happens. The happy ending is inevitable.

Book editions

First edition
  • Ricarda Huch: The Rooster from Quakenbrück and other short stories (also contains: The singer. The new saint ). Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin and Leipzig 1910
expenditure
  • Ricarda Huch: The new saint. The Rooster from Quakenbrück. Two novels . 79 pages. RUB No. 6481, Reclam, Leipzig 1945 (used edition from 1957)

literature

  • Marie Baum : Shining lead. The life of Ricarda Huch. 520 pages. Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins , Tübingen and Stuttgart 1950 (6th – 11th thousand)
  • Helene Baumgarten: Ricarda Huch. About her life and work . 236 pages. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1964

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schuster & Loeffler
  2. ↑ Baum, p. 518, 11th entry and Baumgarten, p. 230, last entry