Eucharius Zenzen

Eucharius Zenzen OSB (born October 17, 1903 in Andernach ; † April 16, 1963 in Dinklage ) was abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthias .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1922, Wilhelm Zenzen entered the Episcopal Seminary in Trier and shortly afterwards the St. Matthias Abbey, where he accepted the religious name Eucharius and made his profession in 1926 . He was ordained a priest in 1929 and received his PhD in philosophy in Rome in 1932. He was mainly active in church youth work until this was stopped by the National Socialists. He then studied economics and sociology in Paris and Lille, where he graduated in 1939.

After the Second World War he taught philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum St. Anselmo in Rome. In 1950 he was called back to his monastery as administrator, whose abbot Petrus Borne and some of the monks had repopulated the Tholey Abbey in Saarland. Prior Zenzen stayed with some monks in St. Matthias, whose continued existence after the division of the convent is due to his leadership. Elected abbot in 1961 after stabilization, he died of cancer two years later.

literature

• Johannes Aengenvoord: Abbot Eucharius Zenzen † . In: Musik und Altar 15, 1963, pp. 98-101.
• Augustinus Pütz: † Abbot Eucharius Zenzen of Trier . In: Erbe und Einsatz 39, 1963, p. 253.
• The portrait: Abbot Eucharius Zenzen . Mattheiser letter 1964 2nd issue.
• Ansgar Schmidt: Abbot Eucharius Zenzen OSB (1903–1963) . In: Mattheiser Brief 68, 2003 pp. 4-6.

Web links

• Eucharius Zenzen in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de), version of January 22, 2016
• Entry to Eucharius Zenzen on Order online (August 11, 2009)