Alanus de Rupe

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Alanus de Rupe ( Latinized from Alain de la Roche , also Alanus van der Clip ; * 1428 , probably in Brittany , † around September 8, 1475 in Zwolle ) was a Dominican who referred to himself as the fiancé of St. Mary (mother of Jesus) and gave the impetus for the rise of rosary piety in the late 15th century.

Life

Guido Reni : St. Dominic receives the rosary (1596/98)

Alan joined the convent of the Dominicans in Dinan at. He later studied and taught at the Paris Sorbonne . In 1462 he became a member of the convent in Lille along with others . In 1464 Alanus had a vision of the Blessed Mother , as a result of which he wrote the St. Mary's Psalter, a meditation on the Rosary, and founded the first Rosary Brotherhood , which he called Confratria Psalterii DN Jesu Christi et Mariae Virginis . Its members pledged to pray a “psalterium” of 150 Ave Maria and 15 paternosters within a week . After stints in Douai and Gent , Alanus came to Rostock University in 1470 , where he obtained his master's degree.

Because Alanus attributed suggestions from the Carthusian Dominic of Prussia to St. Dominic and because of the nature of his personality he was not undisputed. In the year of his death, he wrote an apology whose authenticity is considered certain, while the authorship of other works ascribed to him remains uncertain. Its impact, however, was considerable: the Rosary Fraternities shaped the spiritual life in the cities until the Reformation . The legend probably goes back to Alanus that Mary herself gave the rosary to St. Dominic, which was often depicted in pictures.

He is one of the authors who was widely used in the early days of printing. The so-called "Marienpsalter", a Marian book of hours , was first printed in Dutch around 1480 in Utrecht and published in Ulm since 1483, in Nuremberg in 1491, and in Augsburg from 1492.

Alanus has been considered a blessed by religious writers since the 17th century , even if a beatification cannot be proven; he was commemorated on September 8th.

Works

literature

  • Johannes Andreas Coppenstein OP: Beatus Alanus, redivivus, de Psalterio seu Rosario Christi et Mariae, tractatus in quinque partes distributus. Freiburg 1610
  • Karl J. Klinkhammer: Alanus de Rupe (de la Roche, van der Clip) . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. Lim. by Wolfgang Stammler. 2nd Edition. Vol. 1. Berlin 1978, Col. 102-106.

Web links

Commons : Alanus de Rupe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry of Alanus de Rupe's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. Ursula Altmann: The achievements of the book printers with the name Brandis in the context of the book history of the 15th century Diss. Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., 1974 ( digitized ; PDF; 1.2 MB), p. 12