Assumptionists

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The Assumptionists , also Pia Societas Presbyterorum ab Assumptione , Augustiniani ab Assumptione , Congregation des Augustines de l'Assumption , are a Catholic male order who lives according to the rule of St. Augustine . The denomination comes from the Latin word "assumptio" , which means acceptance (Mary into heaven) , her abbreviation is AA .

history

It was founded by Emmanuel d'Alzon , who took vows for the first time with four companions in 1850 . The original aim of the order was to promote the Christian development of Eastern Europe and Russia (see Mission Order ).

However, the order found its task primarily within France in the organization of the large mass pilgrimages (including to Lourdes ) and the establishment of a popular Catholic press (including the establishment of the newspaper 'La Croix' in 1880). In this way he made a major contribution to consolidating the Catholic faith in large parts of the French population, but thereby also came into conflict with the non-Catholic ideological groups - atheists , Masonic Deists , Protestants and Jews .

In Catholicism then - until about 1910 - anti-modernism prevailed across Europe . At that time, anti-Semitism was widespread in French society. This was evident in the Dreyfus Affair (see also Chronology of the Dreyfus Affair ). Alfred Dreyfus was convicted twice wrongly (between the two processes, he suffered a nearly five-year solitary confinement in harsh conditions on the Devil's Island in French Guiana ). At the first trial - in 1894 - 'La Croix' went wrong in an article to the thesis that the Jews were a terrible cancer that would lead France into slavery.

The Dreyfus Affair led to polarization and fanaticism in the public and ended in a landslide victory for the Jewish, Masonic and left party groups. Although this saw itself as a representative of enlightened freedom against Catholic bondage, it nonetheless established a structure of anti-Catholic measures of repression (association bans, expropriations, etc.), which also affected the Assumptionists (a state protection process by President Waldeck-Rousseau ended in 1900 against originally twelve Fathers with the judicial dissolution of the whole association). However, it did not succeed in destroying the faith and reputation of the Church, and from around 1910 an increasing number of Fathers returned to France and into public life.

Today's order is primarily active in the education and training of Christianity and tries to bring Christians of different faiths together.

Today the order is represented in 27 countries around the world, including Germany, but especially in Africa and Latin America. The members of the order live together as five friars.

General Superior

  • Emmanuel d'Alzon (1845-1880)
  • François Picard (1880–1903)
  • Emmanuel Bailly (1903-1917)
    • Joseph Maubon (1918–1922) (Vicar General)
  • Gervais Quenard (1923-1952)
  • Wilfrid J. Dufault (1952–1969)
  • Paul Charpentier (1969-1975)
  • Hervé Stéphan (1975–1987)
  • Claude Maréchal (1987–1999)
  • Richard E. Lamoureux (May 11, 1999– ...)

Known order members

See also

Web links

literature

  • Pierre Sorlin: La Croix et les Juifs , Grasset, 1967 ( [1] )
  • La Croix: 50 ans d'histoire au quotidien . Bayard Jeunesse, 2010, ISBN 978-2227482043 .

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  1. ↑ George Whyte : The Dreyfus Affair. The power of prejudice . Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60218-8 . P. 49
  2. ↑ RP ONLINE: Richard Lemoureux, Superior General of the Assumptionists: "life of faith is great adventure". Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ "In Plovdiv, the Pope beatifies three martyrs executed in 1952" , Kathpress, May 26, 2002