Castor from Karden
Castor von Karden (* around 320; † around 400) is a saint of the Catholic Church. His feast day is February 13th.
Form and adoration
Castor probably came from Aquitaine and was a student of Bishop Maximin von Trier , who also ordained him a priest. According to legend, he lived with some companions as a "hermit" in Karden ( Cardena ) and worked around the year 400 as a priest on the Moselle in an area that was already largely Christianized . Presumably he founded an early monastery community with Potentinus , who also came from Aquitaine, and his sons, which existed until 1802. Some Romanesque buildings still exist from the collegiate monastery at St. Castor's grave and work place in Karden, such as the Korbisch House , the Stiftsherrenbau (Karden) and the 12th century collegiate church .
In 780, Bishop Weomodus von Trier raised St. Castor's bones and buried them in the local Paulinus Church in Karden. This meant the official ecclesiastical recognition of the cult and is equivalent to today's beatification . On November 12, 837, Archbishop Hetti von Trier transferred the greater part of the Castor relics, including the head, to the newly built Castor Church in Koblenz . Since then, Castor has also been considered the patron saint of the city of Koblenz.
A smaller part of the Castor relics remained in Karden and was kept or venerated in the so-called Castor shrine. This ornate wooden shrine from the 15th century is still in the collegiate church there; however, its contents have been lost since the end of the 18th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, some of St. Castor's relics returned from Koblenz to Karden and were again deposited in the historic Castor shrine.
Despite being secured, a stranger tore the Virgin Mary figure out of the representations on the shrine in February 2017 and thus caused considerable moral damage. The motive for the act is unclear, as the known sculpture is unlikely to be for sale. Two years later, the police in Wiesbaden were able to secure the relief from a fence. The parish received the news on Castor day, February 13, 2019.
See also
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Castor von Karden. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 958.
- Franz Xaver Kraus : Castor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 69.
- Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads - life descriptions of people in the city's history . Castor, priest in card. 1st edition. Publishing house for advertising papers, Mühlheim – Kärlich 2002, p. 197 f .
Web links
- Castor von Karden in the "Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints" portal
- Castor von Karden in the Florilegium Martyrologii Romanum
- Biographical page on St. Castor ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Literature by and about Castor von Karden in the catalog of the German National Library
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- ↑ Date of birth according to: Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenzer Köpfe - descriptions of the lives of people in the city's history . Castor, priest in card. 1st edition. Publishing house for advertising papers, Mühlheim – Kärlich 2002, p. 197 f .
- ^ To the collegiate church of St. Castor in Treis-Karden
- ↑ To the reliquary of St. Castor in Karden
- ↑ Rhein-Zeitung of February 18, 2017. Accessed March 24, 2018.
- ↑ Parish letter of the parish community Treis-Karden No. 3/2019, p. 17.
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SURNAME | Castor from Karden |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saint of the Catholic Church |
DATE OF BIRTH | at 320 |
DATE OF DEATH | around 400 |