Deodatus of Ruticinium

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Deodatus von Ruticinium (also: Deodat von Rodez , Deodat von Ruticum , Deodatus Aribert , Deodatus von Roussillion or Déodat Aribert de Rodez ) is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and was born in Aquitaine in southern France . A date of birth is not known († November 14, 1391 in Jerusalem ). He joined the Franciscan Order at a young age , was a priest of the Franciscan Order and a missionary . He dedicated his pastoral work particularly to missionary work and conversion to Christianity .

Life

Little is known about the life of the Deodatus of Ruticinium either. Pope Gregory XI. In 1372 asked sixty well-trained Franciscans from different provinces to take on the Bogumils as missionaries in Bosnia . Among them was Deodatus von Ruticinium, who also got to know Nikola Tavelić . After about twelve years of successful missionary work, around 50,000 people were converted by the Franciscans and Deodatus von Ruticinium and Nikola Tavelić were sent to the Holy Land. In the Holy Land were both arrived to the monastery of St. Savior on Mount Zion allocated.

Deodatus of Ruticinium was finally convinced, along with others, by Nikola Tavelić to preach openly to the Muslims , although such an attempt at conversion to the Christian faith at that time in the Holy Land was threatened with death.

Nikola Tavelić appeared before the Qādī of Jerusalem on November 11, 1391 with the consent of the Guardian Gerard Chalvet, together with his Franciscan confreres Peter of Narbonne , Stephan of Cúneo and Deodatus of Ruticinium , with the intention of obtaining permission to enter the Omar Mosque or to preach in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Their requests are said to have outraged the people and they were beaten up by the crowd, then arrested and thrown into dungeon and then sentenced to death. On November 14, 1391, they were martyred in Jerusalem by beheading with the sword. They were torn to pieces and burned in front of the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.

St. Deodatus of Ruticinium and his companions were beatified in 1889 and finally on June 21, 1970 by Pope Paul VI. canonized. The canonization was delayed. a., because it was not clear whether the martyrdom was valid because the martyrs had caused it themselves.

The Four Martyrs Day is celebrated on November 14th.

literature

  • Antonio Crnica: Historico-iuridica dilucidatio. Vitae, martyrii et gloriae beati Nicolai Tavelic . Dissertation Gregorianae, Rome 1958.
  • Dominik Mandić: Documenta martyrii beati Tavelic . Dissertation Gregorianae, Rome 1958.
  • Vera Schauber, Hanns Michael Schindler: saints and namesake in the course of the year . Pattloch, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-629-01642-1 , p. 587.
  • Josef Gelmi u. a .: Lexicon of names and saints . Edition Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-63-5 , p. 609.
  • Ordo Fratrum Minorum : Franciscan Proprium. The celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours . Herder, Freiburg / B. 1987, pp. 372-375.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Egger (OFM), St. Nikolaus Tavelic , In the Land of the Lord, Franziskanische Zeitschrift für das Heilige Land, 2017, Issue 2, p. 72.
  2. ↑ Gottfried Egger (OFM), St. Nikolaus Tavelic , In the Land of the Lord, Franziskanische Zeitschrift für das Heilige Land, 2017, Issue 2, p. 72.
  3. ↑ Gottfried Egger (OFM), St. Nikolaus Tavelic , In the Land of the Lord, Franciscan Journal for the Holy Land, 2017, issue 2, p. 70.
  4. ↑ Heiligenlexikon , keyword: Deodatus Aribert.
  5. ↑ Heiligenlexikon , keyword: date of canonizations.
  6. ↑ Gottfried Egger (OFM), St. Nikolaus Tavelic , In the Land of the Lord, Franciscan Journal for the Holy Land, 2017, Issue 2, p. 74.
personal data
SURNAME Deodatus of Ruticinium
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deodat from Rodez; Deodat from Ruticum; Deodatus Aribert; Deodatus of Roussillion; Déodat Aribert de Rodez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Franciscan; Roman Catholic saint
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Aquitaine
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1391
Place of death Jerusalem