Caesarius of Terracina

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Saint Caesarius, deacon and martyr of Terracina ( commemoration on November 1st)

Caesarius of Terracina , in some martyrologies also called Caesarius, deacon and martyr of Africa , (* in Africa, † November 1 or 2, exact dates not known) was - according to church tradition - allegedly an early Christian deacon , who was considered a saint Martyr is venerated. According to the Martyrologium Hieronymianum , it will be remembered on November 1st .

Life and martyrdom

According to various martyrologies , Caesarius suffered martyrdom either under Trajan , in the Diocletian persecution of Christians , or even under Nero . Caesarius is said to have protested against the supposedly ruling pagan custom in Terracina of sacrificing a youth in honor of Apollo every year by throwing him off a rock. He was then accused by a priest of Apollon and sewn into a sack together with the priest Julian and his companions Felix and Eusebius and drowned in the sea.

Adoration

The arm reliquary of St. Caesarius von Terracina in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin

A chapel has been attested over his grave on the Via Appia in Terracina since the 6th century. The Cathedral of San Cesareo in Terracina is dedicated to the saint. Caesarius is the patron saint of the Italian communities Terracina, San Cesareo (Latium) , San Cesario di Lecce , San Cesario sul Panaro , Cesa and Guardea as well as co-patron of St. George in Cologne, where Anno II had an arm relic of the saint brought.

Relics of St. Caesarius can also be found in the Lateran in Rome, in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome, in the Essen Minster (in the altar pulchrum with lid) and in the Abbey Museum of the city of Aschaffenburg (in the reliquary calendar).

At the arm reliquary of St. Caesarius from the Welfenschatz in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts , it could be a donation from Henry the Lion (around 1160/70, inv.no.W21; pear wood core; silver, embossed, punched, partly gilded, filigree gilded, stone and glass trimmings H. 52.5 - W. 9.9 - D. 8.4 cm).

In the year 810 Richulf , the archbishop of Mainz, received from Pope Leo III . Relics of the martyr Caesarius for St. Alban's Abbey near Mainz . In May 1070 Archbishop Anno II brought an arm relic of St. Caesarius from Terracina to St. Jakob in Cologne .

From March 30 to June 30, 2015, an arm relic of St. Caesarius shown in the Cathedral of Terracina as part of the exhibition Sculture Preziose . This exhibition was opened by the director of the Vatican Museums , Antonio Paolucci , in the Braccio di Carlo Magno on St. Peter's Square in the Vatican .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saint Lexicon , accessed on November 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ Zeno.org , accessed November 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ Romanesque Churches Cologne , accessed on November 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ Ex ossibus S. Caesarii: Ricomposizione delle reliquie di San Cesario diacono e martire di Terracina. Testi ed illustrazioni di Giovanni Guida, [s. l .: sn], 2017.
  5. ↑ Junghans Martina, Die Armreliquiare in Deutschland from the 11th to the middle of the 13th century , University of Bonn 2002
  6. ^ Philipp Jaffé, Monumenta Moguntina , Weidmann, 1866
  7. ↑ Annals of the Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research, 12, The Association, 1873
  8. ^ Kracht Hans-Joachim, Torsy Jakob, Reliquiarium Coloniense , Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2003
  9. ↑ Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Anna Pawlik, Das Jüngere Evangeliar from St. Georg in Cologne: Investigations on the Lyskirchen Evangeliar , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019
  10. ↑ Anna Imponente, Sculture preziose oreficeria Sacra nel Lazio dal XIII al XVIII secolo , Edizioni Musei Vaticani 2015
personal data
SURNAME Caesarius of Terracina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caesarius of Africa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Martyr and saint
DATE OF BIRTH between 1st century BC BC and 1st century
PLACE OF BIRTH Africa
DATE OF DEATH between 1st century and 2nd century