Holy Castulus

This article explains the holy castulus. For other meanings, see St. Kastulus .

Statue of St. Kastulus in the Ursulakapelle of the minster St. Kastulus in Moosburg an der Isar

The holy Kastulus , also Castulus , Kastulis , Catulus , Bavarian Kastl , lived in Rome in the 3rd century .

Life and legend

Picture with coat of arms and the two cartridges of the chapter in the monastery basilica St. Martin in Landshut

Kastulus is said to have been chamberlain to the Roman emperor Diocletian (* between 236 and 245; † around 312). The legend after he was because of his faith in the eponymous catacombs on the Via Labicana in Rome buried alive .

Relics

Reliquary with the bones of St. Kastulus in a side chapel of the Landshut collegiate basilica St. Martin

Reliquary grave with the bones of St. Kastulus in the people's altar of the Landshut Abbey Basilica of St. Martin

In the second half of the 8th century, probably between 764 and 772, the monks Albin and Rhenobot brought the bones of St. Castulus from Rome to Moosburg an der Isar to the Benedictine monastery there . This monastery was responsible for the missionary work of the Holzland and Hallertau . The area of ​​the County of Moosburg included approximately the northern part of today's Freising district . With that, St. Kastulus as the patron saint of Hallertau and the city ​​saint of Moosburg. The relics of this Roman martyr of the 3rd century have had a lasting impact on the history and importance of the city and monastery of Moosburg.
For centuries, the year 827 was mistakenly considered the date of the translatio (“transfer”) of the relics: In 1927, the festival “1,100 years of Kastulus” was celebrated in Moosburg, for which around 20,000 believers came together.

Since the transfer, the Kastulusmünster in Moosburg has been consecrated in a double patronage next to St. Mary and St. Castulus.

After laying the Collegiate Moosburg into collegiate St. Martin to Landshut in 1598 and most of rest of the relics of the saint since 1604 in Landshut basilica St. Martin and Kastulus .

Another relic of the saint, which Walperich von Fahlenbach , perhaps a henchman of the Counts of Moosburg, brought back from a cruise around 1037 , is in the church of St. Kastulus in the hamlet of Sankt Kastl in the Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm district .

Martyrdom, reception

The Martyrdom of St. Kastulus in a window of the Landshut collegiate basilica of St. Martin. The torturers were given the faces of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels.

The Martyrdom of St. Kastulus is depicted on four wooden reliefs of the high altar made by Hans Leinberger between 1511 and 1541 in the choir of the Kastulus minster in Moosburg an der Isar .

The place and church of Kastl are also dedicated to the martyr, as is the church Svatý Haštal , Prague, the Martinskirche (Landshut) , St. Kastulus (Moosburg an der Isar) , St. Castulus (Puchschlag) , St. Kastulus (Schallenkam) , St. Kastulus (Unterschönbach) , St. Kastulus (Vilsheim) and the pilgrimage site of Sankt Kastl .

His widow Irene of Rome took care of St. Sebastian healthy.

Remembrance day, patronage, attribute

Name day of St. Kastulus is March 26th . He has been venerated as the patron saint of farmers and shepherds since late antiquity . He is called to protect against lightning , water shortages , animal diseases and horse thieves.

In addition to the martyr's palm , his attribute is the spade , since he was buried alive.

See also

• Adoration of saints
• List of the blessed and saints
• Saint calendar

literature

• Anton Landersdorfer , The Translation of the Collegiate Foundation and the Relics of St. Kastulus von Moosburg to Landshut (1595-1604) , in: Contributions to Old Bavarian Church History, Volume 48, 2005, pp. 37–53.
• Ekkart Sauser :  Castulus (Kastulis). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 254-255.
• Paul W. Roth, Soldier Saints , Verlag Styria, Graz Vienna Cologne, 1993, ISBN 3-222-12185-0

Web links

• Holy Castulus on the website of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
• Holy Castulus . In: Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Wieninger : Bavarian figures. 74 life pictures of Duke Tassilo III. to Werner Heisenberg . Hugendubel, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-88034-061-7 , Hans Leinberger, p. 78 .
2. ↑ Roland Götz: Parish Church of St. Kastulus, Moosburg. (No longer available online.) Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved September 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.