Firminus Flören

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Firminus Flören OFM (* 1752 in Paderborn ; † March 18, 1822 in Münster ) was a German priest in the Franciscan order , lecturer and provincial of the Saxon Franciscan province of Saxonia .

Life

Firminus Flören joined Saxonia in 1769 . After his ordination he was a teacher at the Franciscan high school in Rietberg from 1777 to 1779 . From 1780 to 1786 he worked as a lecturer for philosophy at the study monasteries of Saxonia in Rheine and Rietberg, from 1786 to 1792 he taught theology in Paderborn, where he was also the head of the normal school . From 1792 to 1795 he was appointed Guardian of the Paderborn Convent . After several years as a lecturer for theology in Paderborn, he was guardian in Münster from 1798 to 1801 . The Provincial Chapter of Saxonia elected him in 1801 for three years for provincial . The seat of the provincial council was in the Münster monastery. From 1804 until the abolition of the monastery in 1811 he was confessor in the Poor Clare Monastery in Münster . In 1807 he was commissioned by the order's leadership in Rome to visit his own province. In 1810 he was elected provincial a second time.

As a result of secularization , the Saxon Franciscan Province was doomed to extinction, the first convents were dissolved as provincial in 1802 during the first term of office of Flören. For the remaining monasteries, contact with one another and the transfer of the brothers to other convents were difficult. When the convent in Münster was dissolved by a resolution by Emperor Napoleon in November 1811, Firminus Flören continued to manage the province as Commissarius provincialis from a private apartment in Münster until his death on March 18, 1822 , as a provincial chapter because of the proper election of a provincial superior the state restrictions were not possible. Between 1810 and 1820 over 150 provincial fathers died and new admissions were prohibited; in monasteries where 20 Franciscans had previously lived, three to six remained, overburdened with work and oppressed by the fear of annulment. After Flören's death, Pope Pius VII appointed Josef Schmedding as his successor. The impairments were not completely lifted until 1843 by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV .

Firminus Flören worked as a synod examiner and parish consultor in the diocese of Münster . He was held in high regard by the population in Münster and the clergy in the diocese of Münster. He is buried in the Überwasserfriedhof in Münster.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benedikt Peters: Book of the Dead of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross, revised and annotated after the first edition by Father Patricius Schlager OFM. Second volume: Evidence. Werl 1948, p. 62.
  2. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, pp. 447, 453.
  3. ↑ Franz-Josef Esser: The Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross on the eve of secularization and its history in the first half of the 19th century. (Unpublished manuscript) cit. 1973, p. 98.
    Compendium Chronologicum Provinciae Saxoniae S. Crucis Ordinis fratrum minorum S. Francisci Recollectorum. Warendorf 1873, p. 71.
  4. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, pp. 453, 455, 459, 463.
  5. ↑ Benedikt Peters: Book of the Dead of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross, revised and annotated after the first edition by Father Patricius Schlager OFM. Werl 1948, first volume: Text , p. 89; Second volume: Evidence , p. 62.
personal data
SURNAME Flören, Firminus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German priest in the Franciscan order, lecturer and provincial
DATE OF BIRTH 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1822
Place of death Muenster