Amand from Maastricht
Saint Amandus also Amand (* around 575 in Poitou, † around 676 in Elno , today Saint-Amand-les-Eaux ) was a missionary in Flanders and Bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht .
Surname
Amandus worked in different places in his life, and so he is referred to as Amandus of Tongeren, Amandus of Maastricht, Amandus of Gent or Amandus of Elno , depending on the country and subject .
Life
Amandus early embarked on a career in which he alone could work publicly with his Roman descent. He served the Church through preaching, conversion, and founding monasteries. First a missionary under the Basques and Slavs, he became the apostle of Belgium under Dagobert II , who exiled him as a strict moral judge, but otherwise supported him effectively.
He founded a traveling bishop monasteries Blandinium and St. Bavo in Ghent and was later named after the monastery St. Amand (Elno) at Tournai , was 647 to 649 the diocese of Tongeren-Maastricht right not renounced the same as it savaged the clergy Despite the warnings, Pope Martin I became the master and turned again partly to the conversion of the Gentiles in the Scheldt regions , partly to the peaceful life in his monastery in Elno, where he died around the year 675.
Relics of St. Amandus have been in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Oberammergau since 1760.
His cult is partly mixed with Amandus von Worms , who appeared at the same time ; some historians even consider them identical.
Remembrance day
The following churches commemorate Amandus on February 6th :
- Evangelical Church in Germany (Remembrance Day in the Evangelical Name Calendar )
- Roman Catholic Church
literature
- Matthias Werner : Amandus, Ap. the Belgian . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 1 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, Sp. 485 f .
- Kurt Schäferdiek: Franconia. In: TRE 11 (1983), pp. 330-335, here: pp. 333 f.
- Jürgen Prinz : Amandus, French. Missionary . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , column 510 f.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Amandus, Apostle of the Belgians. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 139-140.
- Theodor von Sickel : Amandus von Maestricht . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 388.
- Michael Buhlmann: Suitbert, Liudger and the missionary work of Northwest Europe (PDF; 485 kB). In: Contributions to the history of Kaiserswerth , Heft 6, Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth 2008 (especially on Amand: p. 6 f.).
Individual evidence
Web links
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johann I. Agnus |
Bishop of Maastricht 647? –650? |
Remaclus |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amand from Maastricht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amandus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Missionary in Flanders and Bishop in Tongeren |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 575 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poitou |
| DATE OF DEATH | at 676 |