Antonie Rädler

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Antonie Rädler (* December 14, 1899 in Wigratzbad ; † December 9, 1991 ibid) was an alleged mystic and the founder of the prayer center Maria vom Sieg in Wigratzbad, a suburb of Opfenbach in the Lindau district in West Allgäu . Since 1988 the place of prayer has also been the seat of the German district of the Society of St. Peter , which emerged from the Society of St. Pius and is a society of apostolic life under papal law . Antonie Rädler's private revelations were not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Three times Adorable Mother of Schoenstatt (MTA)

Antonie was the youngest daughter of the farmer and butcher Andreas Rädler; she had three other sisters. In addition to his farm, the father ran a butcher's shop in Wigratzbad. At the beginning of the 1920s, Antonie and several friends founded a Marian congregation , which prayed on Sunday afternoons in the parish church in Wohmbrechts for human concerns and later also against the Nazis . In 1936 Antonie ran a family butcher shop in nearby Lindau on Lake Constance . There she placed a picture of Mary of the Mother Thrice Admirable from Schoenstatt, clearly visible . In 1936 a group of SA men came into the shop with a picture of Hitler and demanded that the picture of Mary be removed and the picture of Hitler put up. Antonie categorically refused. She was attacked and threatened by strangers several times when she went home at night, but was able to escape each time. In 1937 Antonie had a chapel built on her parents' property, which was named Our Lady, the Immaculate Mother of Victory . On November 21, 1937, Antonie was arrested for the first time by the Secret State Police and taken to the Katzenstadl women's prison in Augsburg , where she was interrogated for days. The chapel was supposed to be consecrated on December 8th, which the police forbade. Antonie was only released from prison on December 18, 1937.

In 1940 she was to be arrested again. She fled to the Bregenz Forest and hid there for several years with a well-known family. During this time she was constantly on the Gestapo's wanted list. Towards the end of the war, she left her hiding place and ran home. Her father hid her in a barn until the war was finally over. After the war, the French army occupied the Allgäu and, as a precautionary measure, fired 180 grenades at Wigratzbad in order to clear any pockets of resistance. The shells also struck near the chapel, but it was not damaged.

Seminary and place of prayer at Wigratzbad

In the post-war years, Antonie Rädler built a sanatorium for people with cancer next to the chapel , which had to be abandoned after the death of the managing doctor in 1982 and converted into a pilgrims' home. In gratitude for her rescue during the Nazi era , she built the larger Maria vom Sieg chapel . In all the years after the end of the war, she regularly held prayer times in the chapel every week from Thursday to Friday and every Saturday until midnight. Antonie Rädler died on December 9, 1991 at the age of 92.

Antonie Rädler predicted early on that a Rome-approved seminary would one day be built at her place of prayer . In 1988, three years before her death, the Petrine Brotherhood settled on the grounds of the Wigratzbad prayer center . On April 15, 1990, an Easter Sunday, Josef Cardinal Ratzinger , then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , celebrated Holy Mass at the place of prayer.

Josef Stimpfle , 81st Bishop of Augsburg, celebrated Antonie Rädler's Requiem on December 12, 1991 . The place of prayer was and is still under criticism within the diocese of Augsburg for its conservative stance on the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. Stimpfle took the opportunity to present his assessment of the origin and the mission of the place of prayer in the sermon .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingrid Grohe: Diocese forbids book about Wigratzbad , Allgäu-Rundschau , March 22, 2011
  2. ↑ Wigratzbad place of prayer. Origin and Development ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Under II. ( Memento of February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Reprint of the sermon ( Memento from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rädler, Antonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mystic
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wigratzbad
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1991
Place of death Wigratzbad