Bernhard Keller (Abbot)

Bernhard Keller (born May 25, 1608 in Lucerne ; † July 6, 1660 in Würenlos ) was abbot of the Wettingen monastery.

Life

Bernhard Keller, son of the master butcher Johann Keller and Barbara Ratzenhofer, attended the Jesuit grammar school in Lucerne and in 1625 took the religious vows in the Wettingen monastery . Ordained a priest in Lucerne in 1632, he was pastor in Würenlos from 1633 to 1648 and then returned to the monastery as a cellar . In 1649 he was elected abbot.

During his time the relics of the catacomb saints Marianus and Getulius were acquired in 1651, the ownership of the monastery was clarified and secured, and a Marian brotherhood was founded in 1652. The opening of part of the monastery church to women also made it necessary to convert the western front porch and install a pulpit in the nave. After tension with the convent, he resigned from office in 1659 and settled in Würenlos, where he died the following year. He left a diary behind , but it has been lost since the secularization of 1841.

His sister Franziska was abbess in the Rathausen monastery , his sister Benedikta was abbess in the Hermetschwil monastery . His great-nephew Leodegar Keller was ennobled in 1719.

literature

• Helvetia Sacra III / 3, 473 f.

Web links

• Sarah Brian Scherer: Keller, Bernhard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 11, 2005 , accessed July 24, 2018 .
• Keller, Bernhard in Biographia Cisterciensis , version of July 24, 2018