Beatrix von Engelport

"Blessed Beatrix von Engelport"

Beatrix von Engelport († between 1262 and 1406 in the Maria Engelport monastery , near Treis-Karden ) was a choirwoman, possibly the first prioress in Engelport's Premonstratensian Abbey .

While it was long assumed that Beatrix was possibly a daughter of Philip II of Wildenberg , who restored the Maria Engelport monastery in 1260 and settled it with three of his daughters and other nuns from a Dominican convent in the Ardennes, recent research suggests that she did Noble family from Frei von Treis could come from. There are no reliable records about the family and status within the monastery, one clue is that their first name (which was not common there at the time) in the family tree of the Frei v. Treis occurs.

After her death, Beatrix was revered as a venerable or blessed nun. In Engelport she was commemorated on February 13th, today her Catholic feast day is March 12th or 13th. In earlier times their relics were kept and venerated on the singing choir, but they were lost during the French Revolution . A finger or foot joint (articulum pedis seu digiti) was brought to the Premonstratensian monastery of St. Joseph (Bethania) in Veurne in Flanders by the then Rommersdorf abbot, Petrus Diederich, and is now also considered lost.

According to the tradition of the Bollandists , Beatrix used to rumble in her simple wooden coffin, according to a legend going back to Abbot Diederich, if one forgot her memorial day.

"Possible descent of the blessed Beatrix von Engelport"

In 1903, the Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary (OMI) built a mission house on the ruins of the monastery that had been closed during the French Revolution, which they lived in until the end of 2013. Since January 2, 2014, the Adoration Sisters of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ have lived in the Maria Engelport Monastery.

Individual evidence

↑ Norbert J. Pies: The Frei v. Treis and her relatives. With a contribution by Markus Sausen. Erftstadt 2011 ISBN 978-3-927049-51-2 .
↑ Petrus Diederich: Antiquitates monasterii Aldenburgensis (17th century manuscript in the Fürst zu Solms-Braunsfels archive).
↑ John Bollandus et al .: Acta Sanctorum ... Paris and Rome 1865, p 253rd
↑ Petrus Diederich: Antiquitates monasterii Aldenburgensis (17th century manuscript in the Fürst zu Solms-Braunsfels archive).
↑ Norbert J. Pies: From Flaumbach into the wide world. 100 years of Maria Engelport Oblate Monastery and its history . Erftstadt 2003 ISBN 3-927049-34-4 .

literature

Ekkart Sauser: Beatrix von Engelport. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 81. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
Jacob Marx: History of the Archbishopric Trier. Verlag Linz, 1862. pp. 207-210
Norbert J. Pies: Beatrix von Engelport - An inventory. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2017 ISBN 978-3-927049-52-9
Norbert J. Pies: Beatrix von Engelport. Facts, legends and fallacies. On the history of Maria Engelport Monastery - New Series (anniversary series) Volume II. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2018 ISBN 978-3-927049-37-6

Web links

Beatrix in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

personal data
SURNAME	Beatrix von Engelport
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German nun
DATE OF BIRTH	13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH	between 1262 and 1406
Place of death	Maria Engelport Monastery , near Treis-Karden

[1] Norbert J. Pies: The Frei v. Treis and her relatives. With a contribution by Markus Sausen. Erftstadt 2011 ISBN 978-3-927049-51-2 .

[2] Petrus Diederich: Antiquitates monasterii Aldenburgensis (17th century manuscript in the Fürst zu Solms-Braunsfels archive).

[3] John Bollandus et al .: Acta Sanctorum ... Paris and Rome 1865, p 253rd

[4] Petrus Diederich: Antiquitates monasterii Aldenburgensis (17th century manuscript in the Fürst zu Solms-Braunsfels archive).

[5] Norbert J. Pies: From Flaumbach into the wide world. 100 years of Maria Engelport Oblate Monastery and its history . Erftstadt 2003 ISBN 3-927049-34-4 .