Ferrutius
Saint Ferrutius also Ferruccius (* around 300; † 4th century) was a Roman soldier in Mogontiacum , today's Mainz . Its attribute is the palm branch. His feast day in the diocesan calendar of the Diocese of Mainz is October 29th.
Life and cult
Little is known about his life. He was stationed in Mogontiacum, province of Germania superior , around the year 300 during the Diocletian reforms and the most brutal wave of persecution of Christians .
Ferrutius had the choice to pursue his military career or to leave it and convert to Christianity. He was denounced as a Christian by an unknown person and thrown into a dungeon, presumably in Castellum (Mainz-Kastel), where he later starved to death. So he became a martyr. His original burial place was also in Kastel.
He was Eugene I. canonized . His bones were brought to Bleidenstadt in 778 on the instructions of Archbishop Lullus and remained there until 1632. His successor Richulf had a splendid monastery church built in 812. Today, this church is one of the oldest east of the Rhine, but was destroyed in 1632 and rebuilt in the Baroque period, including old buildings.
During another relic translation in the Thirty Years' War , the relics were transferred to the Jesuits in Mainz to bring them to safety from the Swedes. However, the bones were lost during the siege of Mainz (1793) when the Jesuit church and novitiate perished in the hail of bombs from the coalition troops of Prussia and Austria on the night of June 28th to 29th, 1793.
Meginhard von Fulda wrote a sermon on St. Ferrutius, which is, however, little historical. Also Rabanus Maurus to an epigram wrote in honor of the merits of the Holy Ferrutius.
literature
- Niccolò Del Re: San Ferruccio di Magonza Martire . In: Martiri e santi del calendario romano . 2002
- Ekkart Sauser : Ferrutius (Ferrucius). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 320.
Web links
- Website of the diocese of Mainz, on St. Ferrutius
- St. Ferrutius in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints portal
- Meginhardus monachus Bleidenstadensis, Sermo de s. Ferrucio in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website for the collegiate church
- ↑ The Mainz Jesuit Church on regionalgeschichte.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferrutius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferruccius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman soldier and saint |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 300 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century |