Blandina Paschal's Schlömer
Blandina Paschalis Schlömer OCSO (born April 6, 1943 in Karlsbad , Sudetenland as Blandina Schlömer ) is a German Trappist , pharmacist , iconographer and icon painter who became known for her research on the Manoppello veil .
Life
Blandina Schlömer was born in 1943 as the second oldest of five daughters of a Catholic post office clerk in the Sudeten German town of Karlsbad. After being expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1945/46, Blandina Schlömer grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr - Styrum and Oberhausen .
After graduating from high school, she entered the order of the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood in Neuenbeken in 1962 ; two of her older sisters had also become religious. She received the religious name of Sr. Paschalis (The Paschal ) and did an apprenticeship there in the monastery mosaic workshop. In 1966 she was commissioned to study pharmacy , which she completed after an internship in Paderborn at the universities of Würzburg and Bonn and graduated in Bonn with the second state examination in 1972. In the same year she switched to the ascetic order of the Cistercian Sisters of the Stricter Observance (Trappist Sisters) and moved to the Maria Frieden Abbey in Dahlem in the Eifel. From 1981 to 1988 she learned icon painting and from 1983 received a five-year iconographic training in French monasteries of the order. Since she was no longer able to do the heavy physical work that is usual in the order due to a hip and back ailment, she was able to devote herself mainly to iconography in addition to the cantor service and light housework. From 2000 she lived for three years in Saxony-Anhalt Eisleben , where he was the construction of the re-established after more than 450 years Cistercian - monastery of St. Mary's Helfta involved.
In 2003, Sister Blandina Paschalis received special permission from her abbess to exclaust , ie to live as a hermit outside her community in fidelity to her religious vows and to wear a simple robe instead of her religious habit . Since then she has lived and worked as a hermit in a small hermitage in Manoppello, Italy, on a slope above the Sanctuario di Volto Santo shrine , where she lives from icon painting and donations in the service of the pilgrims to the Volto Santo.
Iconographic work
Sr. Blandina Paschalis has been involved with iconography since 1977. She made her first acquaintance with the Turin shroud , which initially formed the basis of her Christ icons, in 1965.
She became aware of the Manoppello veil in 1979 through an article in the magazine Daszeichen Mariens and has since devoted herself to iconographic research on this relic. She investigated the alleged resemblance of the face on the veil to the one on the Shroud of Turin and, in 1991, believed that by overlaying transparent foils with photographs of the two faces, which she called sopra position , based on numerous similarities in physiognomy and wounds, she could prove that it is the image of one and the same man. In addition, she assumes to have discovered correspondences of this face on a large number of early Christ icons. Sister Blandina is considered to be the rediscoverer of the Manoppello veil, which was previously hardly examined and little known outside of Abruzzo . Because of their work, the art historian Heinrich Pfeiffer S.J. and the journalist Paul Badde with this scarf. Badde eventually made it known to a wider public through his writings. In his book The Divine Face he devoted a separate chapter to Sr. Blandina.
Fonts
- The Manoppello Veil and the Shroud of Turin , Innsbruck 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-85382-071-9
- Health from the monastery garden: knowledge of herbs - therapeutic fasting - meditation ; with Dietmar Thönnes and Heribert Kerschgens; Bindlach 2004; ISBN 3-8112-2278-3
- Jesus Christ, lamb and beautiful shepherd: encounter with the veil by Manoppello , Johannes Wiemann Verlag, Nuremberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817430-2-9
Web links
- Detailed biography
- Literature by and about Blandina Paschalis Schlömer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlömer, Blandina Paschalis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlömer, Blandina (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Trappist, pharmacist and icon painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carlsbad , Sudetenland |