Bernhard II. Colonia

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Bernhard II. Colonia (* 1713 in Koblenz ; † August 20, 1770 in Rheinbrohl -Arienheller) was the 43rd abbot of Marienstatt Abbey .

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Bernhard Colonia grew up in Koblenz and entered the Cistercian monastery of Marienstatt in 1734 . He was appointed subdeacon on September 24, 1735, three years later (September 20, 1738) he was ordained a deacon and a priest on September 19, 1739 . He subsequently acted as vice curate in the parish of Höhn in the western forest . After Abbot Petrus Emons resigned, he was elected abbot of Marienstatt Abbey on March 12, 1751 . Gilbert Wellstein dates the election on March 10th The abbot election was chaired by Abbot Augustin Mengelberg from Heisterbach Abbey , Marienstatt's mother monastery. The benediction took place on May 23, 1751 by Auxiliary Bishop Franz Kaspar von Franken-Siersdorf.

In addition to his work as Abbot of Marienstatt, he subsequently took on other tasks:

“In 1753 he was approved for five years and in 1754 was allowed to read forbidden books for three years. In 1755 he received the extension of his license to practice medicine for unnamed monks of the monastery. In the same year he received the authorization to benedicate seven altar stones, two for his own monastery church and five for churches in the area. In addition, he and the convent gave the Heisterbach monastery (Abbot Augustinus Mengelberg) in the Siebengebirge a credit of 3000 Reichstaler. As the client, he completed the construction work on the abbey (gate house 1754) and had the baroque wrought iron railing (with his coat of arms) attached to the stairs to the dormitory. "

- Biographia Cisterciensis

It is documented that he worked in the Definitory of the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order in 1765 . “On the way back he contracted an illness from which he never fully recovered. For health reasons, Bernhard Colonia resigned on July 12, 1770 (Wellstein: July 9) in Metternich and asked for the election of a coadjutor, to whom Cellerar Edmund Reader was elected two days later . "After Abbot Bernhard's death on 20 August 1770 also his successor as Abbot of Marienstatt. Colonia was buried in the Cistercian convent Sankt Katharinen near Linz. His grave slab is still in front of the high altar.

literature

  • Short biographies from the Middle Rhine and Moselle region, 1968
  • Hillen, Christian: The Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt. The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The Archdiocese of Cologne 7. Walter de Gruyter, 2017, p. 404f.
  • Ditscheid, Jörg: The Abbots of the Cistercian Monastery of Marienstatt, in: Eight Centuries of Marienstatt Abbey (= Marienstatter Essays VII). Marienstatt, Buch- und Kunstverlag, 2014, pp. 75–76
  • Wellstein, Gilbert: The Cistercian Abbey Marienstatt in the Westerwald. Limburg: Steffen, 1955, p. 320.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ READER, Edmund OCist (1729-1786). Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ COLONIA, Bernhard OCist (1713-1770) - Biographia Cisterciensis. Accessed December 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Colonia, Bernhard II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Religious, 43rd abbot of Marienstatt Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1770
Place of death Rheinbrohl -Arienheller