Aquiline (saint)

Carlo Urbino (1489), The Finding of the Bones of St. Aquilin , Milan, San Lorenzo, Aquilinus Chapel

Baroque reliquary from 1715 of St. Aquilin, Würzburg, Marienkapelle

Aquilin , also Wezelin (* around 970 in Würzburg , † before 1018 in Milan ), is a saint of the Catholic Church who is particularly venerated in Milan and in Würzburg. His biography is uncertain. Even the details of his life data fluctuate by centuries. His feast day is January 29th .

Life

Aquilin was provost at Cologne Cathedral . In this capacity he made a trip to Rome and stopped in Milan. There he was ambushed and stabbed by a group of heretics .

Adoration

The liturgical veneration of Aquiline began in Milan around 1400 with the miraculous discovery of his remains. They were buried in the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in the Genesius Chapel. This was renamed Cappella di Sant'Aquilino in the 16th century under Charles Borromeo .

In 1705 and 1854 relics of the saint were transferred to the Würzburg churches of St. Marien (the Marienkapelle on the market square) and St. Peter and Paul . The baroque shrine of the St. Aquilinius relic in the Lady Chapel dates from 1715.

Patronage

St. Aquilinus Church in Boxberg

The Aquiline Church in Boxberg and the Church of St. John the Baptist and St. Aquiline in Untereßfeld are consecrated to St. Aquiline .

An altar in the Würzburg inner city church of St. Peter and Paul is also dedicated to him.

literature

• Jakob Torsy: The big name day calendar , Freiburg (Herder) 1997, p. 48
• Josef Kuhn and Robert Kümmert: Franconian witnesses of faith. Richard Mack Verlag, Mellrichstadt 1989, p. 56
• Karl-Heinz Wirsing: Birthplace of St. Aquilin. In: Die Mainlande , 19th year (1968), p. 23 f.
• Karl-Heinz Wirsing: St. Aquilin in front of St. Peter's Church in Würzburg. In: Die Mainlande , 20th year (1969), pp. 42–44
• Bernhard Schemmel: On the representation and veneration of St. Aquiline in the Diocese of Würzburg. Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter 37–38 (1975–1976), pp. 199–228
• Wolfgang Brückner : Ecclesiastical Lifestyles in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1840-1950). In: Lower Franconian History . Edited by Peter Kolb and Ernst-Günter Krenig, Volume 5/2, Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 2002, pp. 107–148; P. 127 f.

Web links

Commons : St. Aquilin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Saint Aquilinus on the website of the Diocese of Würzburg at heilige.bistum-wuerzburg.de
• Legend (version from the 19th century)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} All the data given here are based on Torsy 1997, s. Lit.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Diocese of Würzburg: Saint Aquilinus ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.heilige.bistum-wuerzburg.de. Retrieved December 3, 2016. 
3. ↑ Wolfgang Weiss : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430-449 and 1303, here: p. 434.