Augustine of Galen

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Augustine von Galen OSB

Augustinus von Galen OSB (born December 14, 1870 in Münster as Wilhelm von Galen ; † September 2, 1949 in Freiburg im Üechtland ) was a Benedictine monk, priest and founder of the Catholica Unio .

Life

He was the son of Ferdinand Heribert Graf von Galen and Elisabeth Countess von Spee and a brother of the later Bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen .

After graduating from the Catholic grammar school Antonianum in Vechta in 1889, Wilhelm von Galen studied at St. Mary's College of the Jesuits in Canterbury . He completed university studies in Freiburg (Switzerland), Göttingen and Leipzig, where he was awarded a Dr. jur. received his doctorate.

In 1897 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Emmaus in Prague as a novice and took the religious name Augustine. He made his profession there on March 25, 1899. After a shortened theological training, Augustine von Galen was ordained a priest on September 1, 1901. Until 1913, Father Augustine lived in Emmaus Abbey, which was particularly committed to supporting the Catholic Church in the Slavic countries of the Habsburg Monarchy . I.a. he made a contribution to the expansion of the parish church of the Holy Heart of Jesus ( Crkva Presvetoga Srca Isusova ) in Bijelo polje (Potoci, Mostar , Herzegovina ) in 1911/1912. From Prague he edited the Bonifatiusblatt , the journal of the Bonifatiuswerk .

Augustine von Galen was the confessor of the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was murdered in 1914 .

After the First World War he worked in Vienna, in the area of ​​the "Ukrainian Church Union". This association was approved by the Holy See in 1924 as Catholica Unio . In 1927 their headquarters were relocated to neutral Switzerland. P. Augustinus served as Secretary of the Catholica Unio in Freiburg.

After his death Augustinus von Galen was buried in the cemetery of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Freiburg. On January 12, 2004, his remains were transferred to the hereditary burial of the Counts of Galen at Dinklage Castle .

literature

  • Iso Baumer : From the Unio to the Communio. 75 years Catholica Unio Internationalis (= Ecumenical Supplements , Vol. 41). Universitätsverlag, Freiburg (Switzerland) 2002, ISBN 3-7278-1368-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Bierbaum: Not praise, not fear. The life of Cardinal von Galen according to unpublished letters and documents. 2nd edition Regensberg, Münster 1957, p. 93.
  2. ^ Iso Baumer: From the Unio to the Communio. 75 years of Catholica Unio Internationalis. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg (Switzerland) 2002, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Službeni vjesnik Mostarsko-duvanjske i Trebinjsko-mrkanske biskupije ( official messenger of the diocese of Mostar-Duvno and Trebinje-Mrkan ), No. 2/2012, pp. 211/212.
  4. ^ Iso Baumer: From the Unio to the Communio. 75 years of Catholica Unio Internationalis . Universitätsverlag, Freiburg (Switzerland) 2002. p. 31.
  5. ^ Heinrich Portmann : Cardinal von Galen. A man of God of his time. 18th edition Aschendorff, Münster 1986, ISBN 3-402-05426-4 , p. 58.

See also

personal data
SURNAME Galen, Augustine of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galen, Wilhelm von (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Monk, priest and founder of the Catholica Unio
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1949
Place of death Freiburg im Üechtland , Switzerland