Aloys Lauer

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Aloys Lauer OFM , also Alois Lauer or Aloysius (Christoph) Lauer (born August 28, 1833 in Katholisch-Willenroth as Christoph Lauer ; † August 21, 1901 in Sigmaringen-Gorheim ) was a Roman Catholic religious priest .

Life

Christoph Lauer attended grammar school in Fulda, entered the Franciscan order in Fulda in 1850 , received the name Aloys and was ordained a priest in 1856. After he was expelled in the Kulturkampf as superior of the Thuringia Custody , which belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ), he founded monasteries in Holland, Belgium, France and the USA. From 1881 to 1889, after having held various offices in the Thuringia, he was finally General Definitor of the order.

Lauer was one of the founders of the Acta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum . As General Procurator of the Franciscan Discalceaten (OFMDisc, also Alcantariner ) and the Franciscan Recollects (OFMRec), it was particularly important to him to unite the various families of the Franciscan Order. Soon he became President of the Commission for the drafting of the new statutes , which Leo XIII. Were approved in 1897 ; then Leo united the order through the Constitution Felicitate Quadam of October 4th of the same year. Lauer was also appointed general minister of the newly unified order. Thus he also became the first German general since the Franciscan order came into existence.

Fonts

  • as co-author and editor: Regola e costituzioni generali dei frati minori . Tipografia della Porziuncola, Assisi 1898.
  • Codex pro postulatoribus causarum beatificationis et canonizationis . Typographia Sallustiana, Rome 1899.
  • with Lucas Wadding and Gaetano Michelesi: Annales Minorum Seu Trium Ordinum a S. Francisco Institutorum, 1208–1680 , Vol. 20: From anno MDLXIV usque ad annum MDLXXIV . Florence 1899.
  • Horae diurnae Breviarii Romano-seraphici: a SS. DN Pio Papa VI. dudum approbatae . Collegium S. Bonaventurae, Ad Claras Aquas (= Quaracchi near Florence) 1900.
  • Soul of religious life. Core sayings of the late Minister General P. Aloysius Lauer, OFM, on monastic life. Presented to the nuns from his estate by P. Wendelin Meyer, OFM (= The religious pocket book of the religious. Vol. 10). Warendorf / Westf. 1949.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Ludwig Ferretti: Memories of the Most Revered Father Aloysius Lauer, General of the Franciscan Order . Fulda 1901.
  • Antonius Wallenstein: Undeterred and loyal: a German Franciscan general. P. Aloisius Lauer (1833-1901). Picture of his life and personality . Wiesbaden 1954.
  • Florentin Nothegger, Eugen Berthold: The Franciscan General Alois Lauer in Austria-Hungary. Provincialate of the Franciscans, Vienna 1978.
  • Georg-Wilhelm Hanna : A man after the heart of God. On the 80th anniversary of the death of the first German general of the Franciscan order, P. Aloysius Lauer . In: Bonifatiusbote , Vol. 93 (1981), No. 35 of August 30, 1981, p. 11.
  • Lauer, Aloysius in German Biography Online .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Georg-Wilhelm Hanna: A man after the heart of God. On the 80th anniversary of the death of the first German general of the Franciscan order, P. Aloysius Lauer . In: Bonifatiusbote , Vol. 93 (1981), No. 35 of August 30, 1981, p. 11.
predecessor Office successor
Luigi da Parma OFM 105. Minister General of the Franciscan Order
1897–1901 		Dionysius Schuler OFM
personal data
SURNAME Lauer, Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauer, Alois; Lauer, Aloysius; Lauer, Christoph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Roman Catholic religious priest
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Catholic Willenroth
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1901
Place of death Sigmaringen-Gorheim