Christian Kruik from Adrichem

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Christian Kruik van Adrichem: Jerusalem, et suburbia eius (1584)

Christian Kruik van Adrichem , Latinized: Christianus Crucius Adrichomius (born February 14, 1533 in Delft , † June 20, 1585 in Cologne ), was a Roman Catholic priest and author. He lived in Delft in a house called "the double cross" (het dubbele kruis) , hence the surname Crucius.

Life

As the son of the mayor of Delft, he studied theology in Leuven and was ordained a priest on March 2, 1561. Afterwards he was superior of the St. Barbara monastery, the later orphanage for girls in Protestant Delft. When the Reformation was introduced in Delft in 1566, he left his hometown. In 1578 he was in Mechelen and published the work Vita Jesu Christi . Later he came to Cologne, where he became confessor of the Augustinian convent "Nazareth". He wrote several papers on the topography of Palestine.

Van Adrichem's Map of the Holy Land (National Library of Israel)

meaning

His work Jerusalem sicut Christi tempore floruit (...) brevis descriptio, Cologne 1584 is of great importance in the history of piety. The author, who had never seen Jerusalem, describes a Way of the Cross with twelve stations, with the distances between the stations being communicated "so that every Christian can understand the Way of the Cross at any place, even within his four walls, in the corridor or in the garden" . The book gained wide circulation; Translations have appeared in Italian, English, Dutch, Bohemian, Polish, Spanish and German. The stations listed in it were all later included in the official Roman Catholic Way of the Cross:

  1. Pilate
  2. Laying on of the cross
  3. First case
  4. Meeting with Maria
  5. Simon of Cyrene
  6. Veronica gives Jesus the handkerchief
  7. Second case
  8. Weeping women
  9. Third case
  10. Undressing
  11. Nailing
  12. Erecting the cross.

The often reprinted city map of Jerusalem is a remarkable work in which learned source study and pious imagination mix. It identifies and explains 217 places; the Passion story is referred to again and again.

Works

  • Vita Jesu Christi ex quatuor evangelistis breviter contexta et in germanum verumque ordinem digesta. Antwerp 1578.
  • Jerusalem, sicut Christi tempore floruit, et suburbanorum, insigniorumque historiarum eius brevis descriptio . Cologne 1584. ( digitized version )
  • Theatrum terrae Sanctae et Biblicarum Historiarum cum tabulis geographicis , Cologne 1590.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Fischer: Crucified Love. The Grüssau Way of the Cross from 1682 . In: Karl-Heinrich Bieritz, Andreas Marti, Jörg Neijenhuis, Wolfgang Ratzmann (Hrsg.): Yearbook for liturgy and hymnology . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, p. 165 .
  2. ↑ Marco Talarico: The Way of the Cross of Jesus in historical authenticity and Catholic piety . Münster 2003, p. 57 .
  3. ↑ Marco Talarico: The Way of the Cross of Jesus in historical authenticity and Catholic piety . S. 58 .
personal data
SURNAME Kruik from Adrichem, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crucius Adrichomius, Christianus; Adrichom, Christian van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic priest and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1533
PLACE OF BIRTH Delft
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1585
Place of death Cologne