Benedikt Sauter

Benedikt Sauter OSB (born August 24, 1835 in Langenenslingen as Roman Sauter , Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen ; † June 7, 1908 in Prague , Austro-Hungarian monarchy ) was a German Benedictine of the Beuron congregation . From 1885 until his death in 1908 he was abbot of the Emaus Monastery in Prague's New Town .

Life

Benedikt Sauter studied theology at the universities of Freiburg and Bonn and canon law in Rome, where he in 1858 to Dr. iur. can. received his doctorate. In the same year he was ordained a priest. He then worked for a short time as chaplain in Bingen near Sigmaringen and as court chaplain to Princess Katharina zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst . Presumably under the influence of the brothers Maurus and Placidus Wolter , whom he had met in Rome, he decided to join the Benedictine community in Kleve - Materborn as the first novice . He completed his novitiate in Solesmes Abbey . In 1863 he moved to the Beuron Monastery , which had been founded the day before and which was also founded by the Wolter brothers. There he took the religious vows on May 28, 1863 . Sauter was an excellent expert on Gregorian chant and worked in Beuron as a subprior and novice master as well as local pastor.

After the Benedictines had to leave Beuron in the course of the Prussian Kulturkampf in 1875, the convent initially received a place to stay in Volders , where Benedikt Sauter was appointed prior in 1876 . In 1880 the Beuron congregation was able to take over the Emaus monastery in Prague's New Town. Its director was the Beuron abbot Maurus Wolter in 1880 , who in 1885 transferred the management to Benedikt Sauter. In 1887, Sauter founded the Emautin Oblade School, in which young men were prepared for the monastic profession and were taught high school subjects. In addition, he supported the establishment of the first Beuron Benedictine monastery St. Gabriel in Prague- Smíchov . During his tenure, the Emauskloster grew into one of the largest Benedictine convents. At the same time it reached a spiritual boom and developed into a center of liturgical renewal. Benedikt Sauter also fought against the German national Los-von-Rom movement . He died in Prague on June 7, 1908. Successor in the office of abbot was Albanus chess manager .

literature

• Stefan Klaus Petzolt: The history of the founding and development of Beuron Abbey as reflected in its liturgy (1863–1908). Dissertation. University of Würzburg, Würzburg 1990, esp. Pp. 352-357.
• Ulrike-Johanna Wagner-Höher: The Benedictine Sisters of St. Gabriel / Bertholdstein (1889–1919). EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 2008, ISBN 978-3-8306-7343-9 .
• Inge Steinsträßer: Wanderer between the political powers. Father Nikolaus von Lutterotti OSB (1892–1955) and the Grüssau Abbey in Lower Silesia. Böhlau Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20429-7 , pp. 77f.

Web links

• Entry on Benedikt Sauter on Orden online , accessed on October 10, 2015
• Benedikt Sauter in Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de), version of January 29, 2017