Christina von Hamm

Christina von Hamm (* 15th century; † 15th or 16th century) is a mystic and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church .

There is only a short account of the life of Christina by Werner Rolevinck in his universal story Fasciculus temporum from the 1470s. According to this, a maid (puella) named by Rolevinck Stine was in Hamm in 1464 . As a “freshly converted” (noviter conversa) she wore the five wounds of Christ there . These stigmata, according to the report, were seen for 15 weeks until Corpus Christi . Christina showed them to twelve witnesses and predicted that these times would go away within two hours, which is supposed to have happened. No further messages have been received. The story of Rolevinck was included in the 16th century by Gerhard Kleinsorgen in his Chronicon sive Historia Westphaliae Ecclesiastica , which was only published in 1780 . Aegidius Gelenius followed both of them in his De admiranda Sacra from 1645, published by Jost Kalckhoven , and lists their day of remembrance on June 23. Today is her memorial day June 22nd, which was probably taken over by Christina von Stommeln and transferred to her. With regard to the stigmata, Peter Dinzelbacher raises the question of whether it was fraud.

literature

Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann: Christina v. Hamm . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 2 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, Sp. 1138 .
Ekkart Sauser : Christina von Hamm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 258 ( article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Christina von Hamm in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

Remarks

↑ Gerhard Kleinsorgen: Church history of Westphalen, and adjacent Oertern. Volume 2. Aschendorf, Münster 1780, p. 283 (book 8, section 127; digitized version ).
^ Aegidius Gelenius: De admiranda Sacra et civili magnitudine Coloniae Claudiae. Book 4. Kalckhoven, Cologne 1645, p. 699 ( digitized version ).
^ Peter Dinzelbacher: German and Dutch mysticism of the Middle Ages. A study book. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, p. 280.

personal data
SURNAME	Christina von Hamm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mystic and Blessed
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	15th century or 16th century

[1] Gerhard Kleinsorgen: Church history of Westphalen, and adjacent Oertern. Volume 2. Aschendorf, Münster 1780, p. 283 (book 8, section 127; digitized version ).

[2] Aegidius Gelenius: De admiranda Sacra et civili magnitudine Coloniae Claudiae. Book 4. Kalckhoven, Cologne 1645, p. 699 ( digitized version ).

[3] Peter Dinzelbacher: German and Dutch mysticism of the Middle Ages. A study book. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, p. 280.