Beatrix of Mecklenburg

Beatrix von Mecklenburg , also Beate , Beata , Beate von Ribnitz (* 1324 , † 1399 ) was a Mecklenburg princess and from 1349 to 1395 the first princely abbess in the Poor Clare monastery in Ribnitz . She is venerated as a blessed in the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Beatrix was the youngest daughter of Prince Heinrich II the Lion of Mecklenburg and his second wife Anna of Saxony-Wittenberg († between June 25, 1327 and August 9, 1328), daughter of Duke Albrecht of Saxony-Wittenberg . It was named after Heinrich's first wife Beatrix von Brandenburg († before September 25, 1314), daughter of Albrecht III , who died young . of Brandenburg .

Early on it was intended for life in the Ribnitz Poor Clare Monastery, which Heinrich had donated in 1323/24. Construction of the monastery began in 1325, and the first nuns moved in as early as 1329. The first four of them came from the Poor Clare Monastery in Weißenfels . Beatrix was also dressed in 1329, at the age of five. Until she had reached the necessary age for the office of abbess, two of the nuns who had come from Weißenfels administered the management of the monastery one after the other. On May 20, 1349, she was elected abbess , now 25 years old, but still with papal dispensation because of her young age.

The monastery chronicle of Lambrecht Slagghert tells of their exemplary piety and charity as well as miraculous events. The monastery church was built during her lifetime. In 1398 she resigned from the office of abbess for health reasons.

Adoration

Beate died in the reputation of holiness and was soon venerated without ever being officially beatified or canonized . The church tradition celebrates the anniversary of her death on April 8th, although she probably only died on August 5th, 1399. After the reform of the calendar of saints by the Second Vatican Council in 1962 , Beate's name day was set on this date.

literature

Ekkart Sauser: Beate von Ribnitz (Beata, Beatrix). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 67-68. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature about Beatrix von Mecklenburg in the state bibliography MV
Beata von Ribnitz, the first princely abbess and only saint from Mecklenburg , website of the Ribnitz monastery

personal data
SURNAME	Beatrix of Mecklenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beate of Mecklenburg; Beata of Mecklenburg; Beate von Ribnitz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mecklenburg princess and the first princely abbess in the Poor Clare monastery Ribnitz (1348-1395)
DATE OF BIRTH	1324
DATE OF DEATH	1399
Place of death	Ribnitz