Disibod

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St. Disibod, engraving, 1594, (detail) by Raphael Sadeler, after painting by Marten de Vos
St. Disibod with his 3 companions and the hermitage; complete engraving by Raphael Sadeler, 1594

Saint Disibod (Irish Disens ) (* 619 ; † 700 ) was an Irish monk and hermit . It was first mentioned in the 9th century in the martyrology of Rabanus Maurus . Disibod founded the Disibodenberg monastery .

Life

Hildegard von Bingen wrote a vita of St. Disibod around 1170 . After Hildegard, Disibod 640, accompanied by his students Giswald, Clemens and Sallust, came to the Franconian Empire as a missionary . There they were active in the Vosges and Ardennes until Disibod, guided by a dream, built a hermitage at the confluence of the Nahe and Glan rivers, which later became the Disibodenberg monastery . In the Vita it says about the place of the hermitage: "where his walking stick, stuck in the earth, turned green, where a white doe pawed a spring of fresh water from the earth and where two rivers unite."

At the foot of the mountain near the found spring, Disibod and his companions built huts and they began to preach the gospel among the pagan people. A baptistery was also built at the northeastern foot of the mountain. As a wise, respected man of God, he died on July 8th around the year 700 and was buried in his cell. His miraculous grave became a place of pilgrimage. Several new churches were built there and the body of the saint was reburied there. This happened for the first time in 745 when St. Boniface , Bishop of Mainz, visited Disibod's grave and buried his remains under the altar of the monastery church. The messenger of faith was officially recognized as a saint according to the usage at the time.

In 1559 the Disibodenberg monastery was dissolved in the course of the Reformation. The relics of St. Disibod have since been lost.

The Disibodenberg, the former place of activity of the saint, is now part of the Speyer diocese . There, St. Disibod is one of the diocese saints and is listed in the diocesan calendar with an unavailable day of remembrance; it used to be on September 8th; today it is on July 8th.

Others

In November 2014 the cooperative Realschule plus in Bad Sobernheim was named after Disibod.

See also

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  • Luigi Lippomano, Laurentius Surius (eds.): Vita S. Disibodi Episcopi, & Confessoris, à S. Hildegarde Abbatissa iussu Helengeri Abbatis conscripta . In: ders .: De Vitis Sanctorum , Vol. IV. Venice 1581, pp. 44–48 ( Google Books )
  • Hildegard von Bingen : Vita S. Disibodi. In: Opera omnia ( Patrologia Latina 197), ed. by Charles Victor Daremberg / Friedrich Anton Reuß / Jacques Paul Migne , Garnier Brothers, Paris 1882, pp. 1095–1116 ( digitized version of the Middle Latin Department of the University of Zurich)
    • (German translation) Life description of Saint Disibod, bishop and confessor in Dysemberg, Diocese of Mainz, Germany, written down by Saint Hildegard. (Sponheim booklets 42), translated by Alfred Schwab, o. O. [Burgsponheim] 2009.
  • Michael Embach : A newly discovered manuscript of the "Vita sancti Disibodi" Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179). The Trier manuscript 1143/445 8 ° . In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 139 (2010), pp. 486–492

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  1. ↑ Also Aloisius Lipomanus (1496-1559), 1558-1559 Bishop of Verona, hagiographer .
personal data
SURNAME Disibod
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Disens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish monk and hermit
DATE OF BIRTH 619
DATE OF DEATH 700
Place of death Disibodenberg