Corpus Christi Brotherhood
A Corpus Christi brotherhood ( Latin: Fraternitas Corporis Christi "body of Christ brotherhood"; also: Corporis-Christi brotherhood ) was an association of priests and lay people in the form of a brotherhood that was formed for the special promotion of the Eucharist .
Corpus Christi brotherhoods emerged in the early 16th century; (even earlier in the first steps). In 1539 Pope Paul III established in the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva the arch brotherhood for the veneration of the most sacred altar sacrament. They spread from Italy, where they were particularly encouraged by Bernardine von Feltre , in the course of the Counter-Reformation also in numerous dioceses in other countries and were dedicated to the promotion of the Feast of Corpus Christi and Perpetual Adoration , besides they also jointly procured vestments for the celebration of the liturgy .
In Germany there were well-known Corpus Christi brotherhoods in Würzburg, an arch brotherhood for priests and laypeople founded in Munich in 1609 with at times around 50 incorporated brotherhoods in Old Bavaria and Swabia, and in Chemnitz a calendar called Fraternitas corporis Christi , also in Salzburg (at that time Such a brotherhood was founded in 1618.
literature
- Johannes Alexander Haidn: The Corporis Christ Arch Brotherhood at St. Peter in Munich 1609-2009. 400 years of history, belief and tradition. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029035-0 (From the parish archive of St. Peter in Munich 13; 320 pages)
- The Corporis-Christi- or Engelmeß brotherhoods. In: Ludwig Remling: Brotherhoods in Franconia. Church and social history studies of late medieval and early modern brotherhoods. Schöningh Verlag, Würzburg 1986, pp. 215-237.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Schubert: Corpus Christi Brotherhood . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 2 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, Sp. 1318 .
- ↑ erzbistum-muenchen.de