Edeltraud Forster

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Edeltraud Forster OSB (* as Mathilde Forster on November 9, 1922 in Bottrop ; † on March 28, 2019 in Rüdesheim am Rhein ) was a German Benedictine nun and abbess of Rupertsberg and Eibingen .

Life

Mathilde Forster grew up in the Ruhr area and worked as a nurse after graduating from high school at the end of World War II and the post-war period. While studying theology and social sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , she decided to join the Benedictine order . In 1949 she entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Hildegard in Eibingen as a novice and took the religious name Edeltraud . Four and a half years later, on Easter Thursday, April 22, 1954, she made her perpetual profession and received the Consecratio . Her profession saying from the Easter sequence was "Gloriam vidi resurgentis" (I have seen the glory of the risen One).

After various tasks in the convent, she was appointed novice master in 1961 . In August 1978 she was elected as the 38th successor to Hildegard von Bingen as abbess of St. Hildegard's Abbey . The Benediction was performed by the Limburg Bishop Wilhelm Kempf on September 15 of the same year. Her abbot motto from the 3rd Prayer of the Mass liturgy was "Inveniamur in Christo" (to become one in Christ).

During her term of office, the Marienrode subsidiary monastery was founded in Hildesheim . The Hildegard anniversary years 1979 and 1998 fell during your term of office. She resigned as abbess on September 20, 1998 at the age of 75. Her successor was Clementia Killewald . Edeltraut Forster died at the age of 96 with his fellow sisters in the St. Hildegard monastery in Rüdesheim.

Web links

  • Our convent. In: website. Benedictine Abbey St. Hildegard, accessed on November 13, 2017 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Hildegard Abbey: Obituary Mother Edeltraud Forster ( Memento from March 30, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b A fulfilled life by faith. Congratulations to mother Edeltraud Forster on her 90th birthday. Diocese of Limburg , November 10, 2012, archived from the original on November 13, 2017 ; accessed on November 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Edeltraud Forster. Abbess of the St. Hildegard Abbey in Rüdesheim-Eibingen 1978–1998. benediktinerlexikon.de, November 12, 2016, accessed on November 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Forster, Edeltraud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forster, Mathilde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine, abbess of Rupertsberg and Eibingen
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2019
Place of death Rudesheim am Rhein