Anna Schäffer

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Anna Schäffer (around 1920)

Anna Schäffer (popularly known as carpenter Nandl von Mindelstetten ; * February 18, 1882 in Mindelstetten , Upper Bavaria ; † October 5, 1925 there ) was a German mystic and is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church . Her feast day in the liturgy is October 5th.

Life

Anna Schäffer was born on February 18, 1882 as the daughter of a carpenter in Mindelstetten and grew up in a Catholic family. Since Anna Schäffer wanted to become a missionary sister , she tried to earn the dowry for entering a religious community and therefore accepted a job as a maid in Regensburg when she was thirteen .

In June 1898, Anna Schäffer is said to have been revealed in a vision that she would soon have to suffer greatly and for a long time. She reacted by fleeing and therefore took a job as a maid in the forester's house in Stammham (near Ingolstadt) . On February 4, 1901, while she was doing laundry with another maid, she wanted to reattach a stove pipe that had come loose from the wall, so she climbed onto a ledge. In the process, she slipped, fell with both legs into the boiling wash kettle, and was badly scalded . The doctors were unable to heal her burns. Anna Schäffer became an early invalid in May 1902 and subsequently lived in poverty.

In the following decades Anna Schäffer was exposed to severe physical suffering; During this time it became the contact point for numerous people seeking consolation and support. Because she was bedridden, the local priest brought her communion every day . In 1910 Anna Schäffer reported about visions and it was also claimed that she had worn the stigmata of Jesus since that year . Since 1923, both of her legs were paralyzed and she developed rectal cancer . Anna Schäffer died on October 5, 1925.

Adoration

Anna Schäffer's funeral took place in Mindelstetten on October 8, 1925. On July 26, 1972, with the approval of Bishop Rudolf Graber of Regensburg, the remains were transferred from the cemetery to the parish church. Pope John Paul II beatified Anna Schäffer on March 7, 1999 . Pope Benedict XVI she canonized on October 21, 2012 in St. Peter's Square in Rome .

literature

  • Emmeram H. Ritter: Anna Schäffer. A blessed woman from Bavaria. Schnell + Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2545-6 .
  • Alfons M. Weigl: Anna Schäffer - ready to sacrifice and passionate to the last, Altötting 1980.
  • Nine days of prayer: Novena to Anna Schäffer, Altötting: St.-Grignionhaus 1989.
  • Anna Schäffer - a life of love, Altötting: St.-Grignionhaus 1989.
  • Georg Paulus: The descent of St. Anna Schäffer (1882-1925) . In: sheets of the Bavarian Regional Association for Family Studies , 76th year, 2013. P. 2 f.

Web links

Commons : Anna Schäffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Schwager: Anna Schäffer von Mindelstetten. mindelstetten.de, archived from the original on March 8, 2014 ; Retrieved February 26, 2012 .
  2. ↑ IN LINGUA TEDESCA Address by the Pope on the Vatican website , accessed on October 21, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Schäffer, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mystic and Catholic saint
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Mindelstetten
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1925
Place of death Mindelstetten