Merciful Brothers of St. John of God

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Hospital ward of the former hospital of the Brothers of Mercy (French Hôpital de la Charité ) in Paris (founded at the beginning of the 17th century, demolished in 1935)
Brothers of Mercy Hospital in Wroclaw (Polish: Wrocław), Poland (convent 1711, hospital founded in 1715)
Convent of the Brothers of Mercy in Brno (Brno in Czech), headquarters of the Brothers of Mercy of the Czech Republic (convent founded in 1747, the hospital hall now serves as a concert hall)
Former hospital of the Brothers of Mercy (French Hôpital de la Charité , built in the 1st half of the 18th century; closed in 1833) in Senlis , France. Today it serves partly as a branch of the department's archive.

The Brothers of Mercy of St. John of God , actually the Hospital Order of St. John of God , Latin Ordo Hospitalarius Sancti Johannis de Deo ( order abbreviation OH ) are a Catholic religious order and an order of nursing , whose father is St. John of God .

history

In 1539 Johannes von Gott founded his first "hospital" in Granada and in 1547, with the help of Archbishop Pedro Guerrero, was able to open the hospital on the Gomelez slope in Granada. In 1552 his successor, Antón Martín, succeeded in founding another hospital in Granada and then in Madrid . Pope Pius V recognized the Hospital Brothers in 1571 and gave them the Rule of St. Augustine .

In 1932 the pomegranate (magazine) appears for the first time , the magazine of the Austrian order province of the Catholic order community, which is a mouthpiece of the order of the Brothers of Mercy in Austria as well as the hospitals and health facilities.

Order profile

The Brothers of Mercy are mostly lay people who, in addition to the three vows (poverty, obedience, celibacy), also take the order-specific vow of hospitality (' hospitality ').

Prior General

  • 1911–1912: Benedetto Menni
  • 1988-1994: Brian O'Donnell
  • 1994-2006: Pascual Piles Ferrando
  • 2006–2012: Donatus Forkan
  • since 2012: Jesús Etayo Arrondo, confirmed in office in 2019

Religious provinces

The headquarters (generalate) is in Rome . The order is active in 53 countries around the world in the care of the sick and the elderly, assistance for the handicapped, welfare for the homeless and, in recent years, has been increasingly active in hospice work and palliative medicine .

There are two order provinces in the German-speaking area . The Bavarian Order Province with its seat in Munich and the Austrian Order Province with its seat in Vienna .

Germany

As a corporation under public law, the Bavarian Order Province employs around 8,500 people in its subsidiaries: the Barmherzige Brüder non-profit organization GmbH, the Barmherzige Brüder non-profit organization for disabled people, the Barmherzige Brüder non-profit hospital GmbH, the Clinic St. Elisabeth Straubing (GmbH) and the Evangelisches Hospital Regensburg gGmbH

In the hospital sector, it is divided into the Barmherzige Brüder non-profit hospital GmbH , the St. Elisabeth Straubing Hospital GmbH and the Protestant hospital gGMBH. The Bavarian Order Province operates a total of 2,150 planned beds in the hospital area. According to its own information, the hospital network cares for 110,000 inpatients and 200,000 outpatients per year and employs 6,500 people. Patient care in the hospitals is supported by five medical supply centers and two service companies.

Six church clinics are represented in the hospital network: The Barmherzige Brüder Hospital (Munich) , the Barmherzige Brüder Hospital (Regensburg) , the Paul Gerhardt House (Regensburg) , the St. Hedwig Clinic in Regensburg , the St. Barbara Hospital in Schwandorf and the Clinic St. Elisabeth Straubing.

Since 2004, the Johannes Hospice of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Munich has been an institution with twelve beds for the care of critically ill and dying patients in their last phase of life.

Austria

At the time of the Habsburg Monarchy , Feldsberg belonged to Lower Austria; it is now in the Czech Republic as Valtice : the first hospital north of the Alps and the first in the Habsburg Monarchy was founded here in 1603.

The Hospital of Barmherzige Brüder in Vienna - Leopoldstadt was founded in 1614 by Brother Gabriel Ferrara from Milan and in 1625 received permission to run a pharmacy. They came at the request of Prince Karl I of Liechtenstein , who was cared for by religious in Italy. Both institutions still exist today.

1615 was in Graz by deed of foundation of the Archduke Ferdinand III. founded a hospital with twelve beds. The foundation stone was laid on June 20 in the presence of Father Bernhard Fyrdram, who later became prior, across the Mur Bridge on the Lend at the former place of execution and prison, known at that time as Lotterbrunnen . The crucifix that stood there at that time is now in the refectory . Also in 1615, the Brothers of Mercy were granted the privilege of having their own public pharmacy, which was expanded several times and called the “Zum Granatapfel” pharmacy. In the years from 1632 to 1636, the predecessor building of today's late-baroque Grazer Barmherzigenkirche Mariä Annunciation (see there) , built from 1735 onwards, was built next to the hospital and pharmacy .

The hospital became a military hospital during World War II and, like the pharmacy, remained fundamentally destroyed and was rebuilt by the order from 1945/46. The pharmacy "Zum Granatapfel" was leased for 70 years and in 2015 it was taken over again by the Order itself.

In 1757, the Barmherzige Brüder Convent Hospital, which was initially set up on Schillerplatz and moved there in 1789 after the Carmelite convent was closed in Herrengasse , was founded in Linz .

Hospitals

The order maintains the Eisenstadt Hospital and the Graz Hospital, which had its first location in 8020 Marschallgasse 12, Lend district . Adjacent is the convent with pharmacy “Zum Granatapfel” and the Barmherzigenkirche (the city parish), both of which are located at number 4 on Annenstrasse. Anesthesiology , intensive care medicine , surgery , gynecology , internal medicine and radiology can be offered in 5 departments . The second location is 8020 Berggasse 27, Eggenberg district . The geographical merger into Marschallgasse is planned for 2021. There are six departments in Berggasse: internal medicine, neurology , psychiatry and psychotherapy , radiology, nuclear medicine and a laboratory network . Other hospitals of the Order in Austria are the Elisabethinen Hospital in Klagenfurt, the Linz Hospital , which cooperates with the neighboring KH der Barmherzigen Sisters in large-scale facilities, the Salzburg Hospital, the St. Veit / Glan Hospital and the Vienna Hospital .

The Province of Austria also includes the Brothers of Mercy Hospital in Bratislava in Slovakia.

Miscarriage

Austrian Post issued a stamp to mark the 350th anniversary in Austria.

In 2008 in Vienna-Leopoldstadt (2nd district) at the Barmherzige Brüder hospital, Johannes-von-Gott-Platz was named after the founder of the order.

literature

  • Vera Schauber: Pattloch name day calendar. Augsburg 1994, ISBN 3-629-00431-8 .
  • Meinhard Sajovitz: Festschrift 1995 on the 500th birthday of the founder of the order of the Brothers of Mercy, St. John of God (1495 - 1550). Provincialate of the Austrian Province of the Brothers of Mercy, Vienna 1995.
  • Meinhard Sajovitz: The Merciful Brothers in Austria 1978-2000. Provincialate of the Austrian Province of the Brothers of Mercy, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-9501183-0-6 .

Web links

Commons : Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Germany:

Austria:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hospitality - Our self-image. barmherzige-brueder.at
  2. ^ Hospitals - Brothers of Mercy - Hospital Association. Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ 400 years in the service of hospitality, Hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder Graz 1615-2015 , published by the Convention of the Barmherzigen Brüder Graz, May 2015, p. 20; on-line
  4. ↑ Cf. 400 years in the service of hospitality , p. 41
  5. ↑ Cf. 400 years in the service of hospitality , p. 34
  6. ↑ FCP - Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT GmbH: Barmherzige Brüder, Bratislava Hospital, establishment of a day clinic, project description ( memento from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 125 kB) no year, accessed on January 12, 2013
  7. ↑ Entry on 350 years of the Barmherzige Brüder in Austria in the Austria Forum  (as a stamp illustration)