Franz Seraphicus Schmid

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Franz Seraphicus Schmid (born July 23, 1764 in Vienna-Lichtental , † January 10, 1843 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman and author of theological writings.

Life

Franz Seraphicus Schmid was the son of a master shoemaker.

He entered the Franciscan order in 1779 . Because Emperor Joseph II, as part of a church reform, had all church institutions that were only devoted to the contemplative life and not engaged in any activity useful for the general public (such as education, nursing, pastoral care), the superiors Franz Seraphicus Schmid advised the order leave and enter the Vienna General Seminar to study theology there and at the University of Vienna .

After being ordained a priest in 1788, he became a cooperator in Probstdorf in Lower Austria . In 1790 he was appointed by Cardinal Christoph Anton von Migazzi as cantor at the Viennese prince-archbishop's Chur, where the archbishop's alumnate was located. In 1794 Franz Seraphicus Schmid became the spiritual director of the clerical seminary and served as its director in 1806/07.

At the Chur in St. Stephan he became a Levite in 1797 , a Cooperator in 1801 and a Curate in 1809, and that was when his actual pastoral work began. He was the confessor of all strata of the population, such as the Prince Archbishops Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart and Leopold Maximilian von Firmian , as well as the patron saint of Vienna, Klemens Maria Hofbauer and the Empress Karoline Auguste von Bayern , but also the robber Johann Georg Grasel before his execution. He was also often consulted by Archbishop Vincenz Eduard Milde . His intensive care for the poor and the sick earned him the name “walking apostle of the poor”.

1825 Emperor awarded him Francis I with a canonry of St. Stephen, in 1827 he was appointed infulierten (honorary for carrying a miter legitimate prelate ) Domkantor appointed. In 1838 he became the papal house prelate .

Due to a weak chest he did not exercise the preaching office, but instead concentrated on the preparation of various reading, prayer and edification books for the rural people, for young Christians, for Catholic Christians, for prisoners, for the sick, for soldiers, for servants, for craftsmen, for citizens, for higher classes. These writings brought it to five, seven, eleven and more editions. He wrote many of his devotional writings not only in German and Latin, but also in Italian, French, English and Greek. For the Jews he had the messianic prophecies printed in the original Hebrew language.

Works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation: Schmid, Franz Ser. 2003, accessed April 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ingenuin Weber (Ed.): Katholische (Catholische) Blätter aus Tirol, No. 9 v. February 27, 1843, p. 129 ff. Wagner, 1843 ( google.de [accessed on April 14, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Schmid, Franz Seraphicus (I.) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 30th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1875, pp. 240–242 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Franz Seraphicus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Franz Seraph .; Schmid, Franziskus Seraphicus; Schmid, Franz Seraphin; Schmid, Franz Seraph; Schmid, Franz Ser.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic clergyman and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna-Lichtental
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1843
Place of death Vienna