Columba Schonath

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M. Columba Schonath OP (born December 11, 1730 in Burgellern near Scheßlitz ; † March 3, 1787 in Bamberg ; actually Marianne Schonath ) was a German mystic .

Life

The daughter of the miller couple Johann Georg Schonath and Katharina, b. Popp in Burgellern was baptized under the name Maria Anna, called Marianne, in the parish church in Scheßlitz . Due to parental living conditions, she was housed with her paternal grandmother from the age of 1 to 8 and brought up in the small town of Doschendorf. From her earliest youth she was filled with an extraordinary striving for piety. She attended school in Scheßlitz from the age of nine. Her mother died in 1742 at the age of 37.

On May 27, 1753 she was accepted as a lay sister in the monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in Bamberg . When she was dressed she was given the name Maria Columba; the blessed Columba von Rieti OP (1468–1501) became their patroness. As a lay sister, she made her vows on September 24, 1754. Soon afterwards their sufferings began and reached their climax in 1763 with the wounds of Christ. The stigmatization has been attested since December 1763. There were also mystical visions that exceeded their physical strength. She died on March 3, 1787 after spending 33 years in the monastery. She was buried in a side chapel of the monastery church.

Burial places

Because the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization in 1803, her bones were transferred to the municipal cemetery and, after the monastery was repopulated in 1926, back to the church. Her grave is visited by many believers.

Beatification process

Even before the monastery was resettled around 1923, people came together to form a society dedicated to promoting the beatification process. This Columba-Schonath-Bund is an association to promote the beatification process of the lay sister Maria Columba Schonath. The beatification process was opened on May 15, 1999 by Karl Braun , Archbishop of Bamberg. To this end, the association collects news, evaluates sources and issues publications, including the information letter Message of Love . Professor Dr. Reinhold Ortner was appointed diocesan postulator in the process of beatification by Archbishop Braun. An archbishop's beatification commission headed by the current Archbishop Ludwig Schick is trying to advance the canonical process at the diocesan level.

literature

  • Hilarius Barth: Maria Columba Schonath. In: Georg Schwaiger (Ed.): Bavaria Sancta. Witnesses of Christian faith in Bavaria. Volume 3. Pustet-Verlag, Regensburg 1973, ISBN 3-7917-0368-4 , pp. 404-422.
  • Markus Huck: The Passion Mystic of Sister Maria Columba Schonath OP from the Holy Sepulcher Monastery in Bamberg. (12/11/1730 - 3/3/1787). Benedict Press, Münsterschwarzach 1987.
  • Franz Kohlschein (ed.): Columba Schonath OP (1730–1787). Reports and visions of a mystic from the Dominican convent in Bamberg. Archive of the Archdiocese of Bamberg, Bamberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9808138-7-7 ( studies on the history of the Bamberg diocese 4).
  • Gabriele Lautenschläger:  SCHONATH, Columba. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 754-755.

Web links

Commons : Maria Columba Schonath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Devoted to Christ with body and soul. sendbote.com, October 16, 2016, accessed November 3, 2017 . , order online