Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

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Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, lithograph by Johann Stephan Decker, around 1825
Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst , completely (Prince) Leopold Alexander Franz Emmerich zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (born August 17, 1794 in Kupferzell , † November 14, 1849 in Vöslau ), was a Catholic clergyman and faith healer, titular bishop of Sardika and Abbot of St. Michael in Gaborjan.

Life

Alexander was a son of Prince Karl Albrecht II of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1742–1796) and his second wife Baroness Judith Reviczky von Revisnye (1753–1836).

After receiving a theological training, he was ordained a priest in 1815 . The primary sermon was given by Johann Michael Sailer . A year later he joined the Order of Malta . Appointed Episcopal Vicar in 1819 , he became the Capitular of Bamberg in 1821 and in the same year believed through prayers that he had accomplished a miracle healing on a farmer . He then tried further in this activity in the form of remote healing in Bamberg, Würzburg and Bad Brückenau . Ludwig I of Bavaria also believed that Hohenlohe had cured his hearing loss here. Venerated by the people, but accused of Jesuitism and obscurantism , he had to fight in Bamberg against the mayor Franz Ludwig von Hornthal , who finally put an end to Hohenlohe's actions, which was received with mixed feelings in the citizens of Bamberg and thwarted Hornthal's re-election.

Pope Pius VII finally forbade the public appearance with miraculous healings by Hohenlohe and placed his work in Bavaria under police supervision. In 1822 he fled to Vienna and received the office of canon from Emperor Franz I in Großwardein , where he also became vicar general .

From Pope Gregory XVI. Appointed titular bishop of Sardika in 1844, he had to flee from the revolution in Hungary in 1848 and died a year later with his nephew, Count von Fries, son of his sister Maria Theresa (1779-1819). Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst wrote numerous theological writings. His uncle Franz Karl Joseph zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was bishop of Augsburg from 1818 to 1819 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter M. Brod: On the 200th birthday of the priest and miracle healer Alexander Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (August 17, 1994). Report of several remote healings. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 12, 1994, pp. 255-258.
  2. ↑ Martha Schad: Bayerns Königinnen , Piper 2005. S. 114.
  3. ^ Franz Ludwig von Hornthal on beleitz-oberfranken.de ( Memento from December 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Titular Bishop of Sardica, Abbot of St. Michael in Gaborjan
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Copper cell
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1849
Place of death Bad Vöslau