Alphons Maria Rathgeber

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Alphons Maria Rathgeber (born June 8, 1888 in Unterroth ; † July 16, 1964 in Kaufbeuren ) was a German Catholic pastor and author of popular writings on faith and the church.

Life

Rathgeber, son of a teacher, studied theology in Munich and was ordained a priest in 1912 . After pastoral care activities in Immenstadt im Allgäu , Starnberg , Augsburg and from 1917 in Wasserburg (Lake Constance) he was pastor in Haselbach in 1925 , in Lauchdorf in 1939 and in Adelsried from 1946 to 1949 .

From 1926 to 1939 he was editor of the Bamberger Sonntagsblatt , from 1946 to 1957 of the Augsburg diocese newspaper St. Ulrichsblatt .

Publications

  • At the Church's Fountains of Grace , 1916
  • Think about it! , 1916
  • Child's Sunday Book , 1919
  • Confession worthy! , 1919
  • Communicate with dignity! , 1919
  • Heaven shines for me , 1921
  • Sunday afternoon , 1922
  • In the shadow of the village church , 1923
  • Ecce homo , 1924
  • You little girl, listen , 1924
  • The Holy Rosary , 1925
  • The happiness of girls and the love of women , 1925
  • Solemnity and everyday life in the Church , 1927
  • From Our Lady , 1927
  • The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Declaration of the Mass and Missal , 1935
  • Legend of saints. Images of life of noble people and holy friends of God , Nuremberg 1936
  • And now? , 1947
  • Beautiful Italy, Eternal Rome , 1948
  • Peter the Apostle of the Rock , 1949
  • My Sunday Book , 1950
  • At the grave , 1950
  • Do you know? Answers to burning religious questions , 2nd edition 1951, 15th exp. Edition 1968
  • My Book of Mother of God , 1951
  • Girl's joy, mother's happiness , 1951
  • Church and Life , 1955
  • Devil and Hell , 1955
  • The blessed Kreszentis von Kaufbeuren , 1955
  • Our Holy Father , 1958
  • Pastor angelicus , 1958
  • Lourdes , 1958
  • The Man of Pain , 1958
  • People Who Please God , 1959
  • Maria, we call to you , 1960
  • The way over the bridge , 1961
  • Natural and Supernatural , 1965

literature

  • Article Rathgeber, Alphons Maria . In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): Dictionary of German Biography , Volume 8, Munich 2005, p. 161
  • Ludwig Gschwind: Pastor and writer: the bestselling author Alphons Maria Rathgeber (1888–1964) . In: Klerusverband (ed.): Klerusblatt 90, 2010, p. 116

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personal data
SURNAME Rathgeber, Alphons Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic pastor and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterroth
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1964
Place of death Kaufbeuren