Celestine Maier
Cölestin Maier OSB (born June 9, 1871 in Natternberg near Deggendorf as Johann Baptist Maier ; † April 14, 1935 in Schweiklberg / Vilshofen ) was a German Benedictine monk and abbot of Schweiklberg .
life and work
Born as Johann Baptist Maier, around 1890 he entered the monastery of the later Missionary Benedictines, founded just a few years earlier by Father Andreas Amrhein at the pilgrimage church of St. Ottilien in Emming , where he received the religious name of Cölestin from the founder . There he made his profession on August 15, 1891 and was ordained a priest on July 25, 1895 . After studying theology and philosophy in Dillingen , Maier became prior in St. Ottilien and, as cellar, was responsible for the economic management of the monastery. In 1904 he bought the Schweiklgut near Vilshofen to found a mission monastery and in 1905 settled there with five monks.
In 1906 the growing community was recognized as an independent Schweiklberg priory , in 1914 it was elevated to the status of an abbey , the first abbot of which Coelestin Maier was appointed on April 1, 1914. His abbot consecration took place on May 24, 1914 in the Schweikelberg abbey church. He chose the word In cruce salus - in the cross there is salvation - as the motto of his abbey ministry .
When he founded the monastery in Schweiklberg, Maier intended in particular to recruit and train young men for use in missions. He was also a prolific religious writer.
The Schweiklberg secondary school, founded in 1999, is named after Coelestin Maier.
Fonts (selection)
- Missionary duty of women and virgins. Mission speech (In the fight for the cross; Vol. 20). Missionsverlag, St. Ottilien 1919.
- Maria comfort. A devotional book for the worshipers of the Comforter of the Afflicted . Seyfried, Munich 1925.
literature
- Hartmut Madl: Father Coelestin Maier (1871-1935). Founding abbot of the Schweiklberg mission monastery and apostolic administrator in temporalibus of the Congregation of the Mission Benedictines of St. Ottilien (Theologia actualis; vol. 2). Duschl Verlag, Winzer 1999, ISBN 3-933047-18-8 ( plus dissertation, University of Regensburg 1998).
- Hartmut Madl: The life of the Schweiklberg monastery founder Abbot Cölestin Maier OSB (1871-1935). Correspondence with Bishop Thomas Spreiter OSB (1865–1944) . In: Christian Schütz (Ed.): O lux beata trinitas. One hundred years of Schweiklberg Monastery 1904–2004 . Klinger, Passau 2005, ISBN 3-932949-43-9 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maier, Celestine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maier, Johann Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Benedictine monk and abbot of Schweiklberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Natternberg near Deggendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1935 |
| Place of death | Schweiklberg |