Faustinus Labes

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Faustinus Labes was a priest from Treptow who introduced the Reformation in Sternberg in 1533 and thus became Sternberg's reformer . He preached there from 1533 to 1545. From 1531 to 1533 he was a Lutheran preacher in Güstrow , where he preached in the Holy Spirit Church and the parish church . Faustinus Labes had already preached the gospel in Stralsund in 1525 . The Reformation had already been introduced there in 1522. The dates of birth and death of Faustinus Labes are unknown.

Life and work as a preacher

The Mecklenburg Duke Albrecht VII , after initially turning to Luther's teachings , fell away from Protestantism and again professed Catholicism . In 1532 he drove the Lutheran preachers out wherever he could.

Shortly after Faustinus Labes took up his post as “Preacher at Güstrow on the Holy Spirit” in 1531, he was denounced by Duke Albrecht “for heretical and unchristian teaching”. The latter then forbade him to continue holding church services , mass and baptism in Güstrow . Faustinus Labes defended himself in writing to the Duke on November 14, 1531, combined with the request to be able to continue as before, "since he only preached pure Christianity ." On July 12, 1533, Faustinus Labes was released from the Güstrow parish .

Since the Reformation did not make any progress in Sternberg, Albrecht's co-regent, Duke Heinrich V , who, in contrast to his brother, favored Lutheran doctrine, moved him to Sternberg. On August 23, 1533 Duke Albrecht ordered the town council of Sternberg to forbid the “Martinic preacher” from worship until he had negotiated a settlement with his brother Heinrich . The council had already verbally promised the duke a ban, but did not adhere to it. The Duke's ban was issued to Faustinus Labes on the same day. Duke Heinrich's court preacher Egidius Faber assured the Sternberg city council that “the preacher zu Sternberg preached with the favor of his lord Duke Heinrich, who had ordered him to do so and to whom he could appeal.” Linked to this, he asked that “the preacher continue may in the ministry and in all that the Gospel brings ”. Faustinus Labes continued to preach as before. As a result, the Augustinian monastery in Sternberg was closed on April 18, 1534 by a commission of the two dukes and Faustinus Labes was “considered not to exist at all” during the Catholic church visit in the same year. Faustinus Labes preached in Sternberg until 1545.

literature

  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Faustinus Labes. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 26, 1861, pp. 86–87 ( full text )
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: Main events in the older history of the city of Sternberg. The Reformation in Sternberg. Volume 12, 1847, p. 243 ff. ( Full text )

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: Faustinus Labes. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 26, 1861, pp. 86–87 ( full text )
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Main events in the older history of the city of Sternberg. The Reformation in Sternberg. Volume 12, 1847, p. 243 ff. ( Full text )
  3. ↑ Egidius Faber was in a similar situation to Faustinus Labes in Sternberg. In the same year (1533) he published his book On False Blood and Idol in the Cathedral of Schwerin . (Lisch: The Reformation in Sternberg. P. 244)
personal data
SURNAME Labes, Faustinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sternberg's reformer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century