Berno Rupp
Berno Rupp , actually Karl Rudolf Maria Rupp , (born November 15, 1935 in Bergatreute ; † September 26, 2017 in Ravensburg ) was a German Salvatorian and social chaplain .
Life
Berno Rupp (real name: Karl Rudolf Maria Rupp) was born on November 15, 1935 in Bergatreute in Upper Swabia, the fourth of six siblings. His father was a teacher, his mother took care of the upbringing of the children. He attended the Salvatorian grammar school in Bad Wurzach , where he graduated from high school in 1955 .
A year later, he and 14 confreres entered the Salvatorian monastery at Passau , where he was given the religious name Berno . After studying theology at the University of Passau and at the Gregoriana in Rome , he was on 1 July 1962 in the Roman church of San Marcello for priests ordained.
He read his first mass in the catacombs of Domitella in Rome, the primary took place on July 15, 1962 in Meckenbeuren , and the secondary primary took place in his baptistery in Bergatreute. From 1963 to 1965 he was assistant prefect and religion teacher in Lochau , then until 1968 chaplain in Stuttgart-Giebel . A year later he was appointed chaplain in Sankt Willibald, Munich , until in 1971 he was appointed head of the people's mission in Passau for 20 years , where he had previously worked as a people's missionary. There he introduced in particular the retreat for all religious .
Shortly after the fall of the "Iron Curtain" he went on 1 May 1990 by Germany or cycle through the Romanian Timişoara , previously the from where half a year Romanian revolution against the communist regime of state and party leader Nicolae Ceausescu had taken their output . A year later he became pastor of the parish in the Mehala district , exactly 100 years after the founder of the order, Father Francis Jordan, began the Salvatorian missionary work there.
With the help of Professor Gerhard Seiler , Lord Mayor of the Timișoara twin city Karlsruhe , he succeeded in 1993 in getting back the previously expropriated Salvatorian monastery in the Elisabetin district from the state of Romania . From the monastery he continued his work in the soup kitchen for children and the homeless and in 1999, together with Caritas Timișoara, near the monastery he founded the "Pater Jordan Night Asylum" with 87 beds for street children and homeless people.
This was followed by the founding of the “Pater Paulus Farm” for long-term homeless families in a former kolkhoz in the suburb of Bacova and in 2003 the “Women's Refuge Maria of the Apostles” for victims of psychological and physical violence in Temesvar as well as a daycare center and a nursing home in Bacova.
To ensure his life's work, the “Pater Berno Foundation” of the Salvatorians was founded together with Caritas in 2011, which guarantees the continuation of his work under its motto “Nobody will be forgotten”.
Awards
- 2005 honorary citizenship of the city of Timișoara
- 2006 badge of honor in gold from the city of Meckenbeuren
- 2011 Human Rights Prize of the City of Graz
- 2015 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rupp, Berno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rupp, Karl Rudolf Maria (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Salvatorians and social chaplain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergatreute |
| DATE OF DEATH | 26th September 2017 |
| Place of death | Ravensburg |