Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross
Founded in 1862 Catholic religious order Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross ( religious symbol : FFSC ) is a German fraternity that her mother's house in Hausen (Wied) has, which is why they are called regional and Hausener Franciscan brothers.
Origin and work
The costume consists of a brown habit with a shirt collar, a rope and a scapular . The Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross see themselves as members of the Franciscan Family and are assigned to the Regulated Third Order .
The congregation was established on June 12, 1862 as a congregation under papal law with the help of the Waldbreitbach pastor Gomm, other companions and the permission of the Trier bishop , from the community of Frommer Handwerker founded by Brother Jakobus ( Peter Wirth ) in 1852 . Brother James got infected while caring for smallpox patients and died on March 28, 1871. There was no connection between her and the Franciscan Order of Priests (OFM) . In 1910 she received the papal commendation decree and was finally recognized by the Congregation for Religious in Rome in 1923 .
You are a member of INFAG, the Inter-Franciscan Working Group. To this day, the Franciscan Brothers operate charitable institutions for old and sick, handicapped and poor people. In 2002 the Order had 43 members in offices in Germany, the United States of America and the Netherlands .
time of the nationalsocialism
In 1936 the Waldbreitbach Congregation consisted of 480 brothers and 60 novices . It had 31 houses, 20 of them in Germany. In five institutions with approx. 1870 beds, mentally ill and mentally ill men were cared for, in addition there were institutions for welfare children, hospitals and outpatient nursing.
The Franciscan Brothers borrowed money from foreign banks to build their works. On the interest to be paid in foreign exchange, the German Reich demanded special taxes "against the outflow of capital", which were massively increased under the National Socialists. Through systematic controls, all accounting errors, even the smallest accidental errors, were brought to justice and imposed with heavy fines. Through these so-called foreign exchange processes, the National Socialist regime tried to financially bleed the church and church organizations to death. When the state induction centers terminated all supply contracts with the disabled facilities without notice, the brothers had to open bankruptcy proceedings in December 1936. In this process, the National Socialists took over, among other things, the St.-Josefs-Heim home for the disabled in Waldniel for around a third of its true value and later used it as "KFA Waldniel-Hostert" for the euthanasia program .
In April 1935, after a complaint, there was an investigation into offenses under Section 175 , fornication between men . The investigation was expanded in the fall of 1935. As a result, the law enforcement authorities took action against other lay organizations as well as clergy and priests outside of monasteries with Section 175, which was tightened in June 1935. In addition, the prosecution was partly carried out or charges were brought under Section 174 , fornication with pupils .
Of the 2,500 preliminary proceedings, 292 were conducted against Waldbreitbach Franciscans. Most investigations have been suppressed or abandoned on the grounds of triviality , statute of limitations or amnesty . In the course of the so-called morality trials, 54 brothers of the congregation were sentenced. The high number of convicted Waldbreitbachers was mainly due to a summation of “ homosexual offenses”.
In canonical proceedings that were also carried out, 31 brothers were excluded from the Waldbreitbach community. After a visit made by the Vatican , an external superior general was installed and the community was dissolved in 1937 at the instigation of the Trier bishop.
The St. Marienwörth Hospital in Bad Kreuznach , expropriated in 1937, was returned to the Franciscan Brothers by the District Administrator in the summer of 1946.
distribution
Germany
- St. Josefshaus, Hausen / Wied ; Elderly and long-term care
- St. Franziskushaus, Hausen / Wied; Facility for mentally handicapped people
- St. Marienwörth Hospital, Bad Kreuznach ; Standard care hospital
- Ebernach Monastery , Cochem / Mosel; Housing and service facility for people with intellectual disabilities
- St. Josef House, Bad Kreuznach; Senior facility
- Short-term nursing home St. Antoniushaus, Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
- Puricelli-Stift , Rheinböllen; Facility for mentally handicapped people
- Maria Queen's retirement home, Kirn
- Motherhouse and Generalate of the Brotherhood, Hausen / Wied
- Postulate and novitiate of the fraternity, Bad Kreuznach
Carrier participations
- Mosellandwerkstätten Ebernach Kühr gGmbH, Treis-Karden; Workshop for disabled people
- Caritas social station on the Rhine and Wied; outpatient nursing service Linz / Rhine
United States of America
- Brother James Court, Springfield, Illinois; Disabled facility
- St. Coletta, Jefferson, WI
statistics
On December 31, 2005, the congregation consisted of 4 houses with 41 members, including one priest.
Web links
- https://www.franziskanerbrueder.de The Order
- http://www.franziskanerbrueder.org The facilities
- http://www.spiritualitaetssicherung.de/ Spiritualitätssicherung - educational offers of the Franciscan Brothers
- Motherhouse and facilities in Hausen (Wied)
literature
- Hans Günter Hockerts : The morality processes against Catholic religious and priests 1936-1937. A study on the National Socialist rule technique and the church struggle . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1971, ISBN 3-7867-0312-4 . ( online )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hans Günter Hockerts, 1971, p. 50
- ↑ Festschrift for the anniversary of the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross: 150 Years of the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross
- ^ History of Waldniel-Hostert ( Memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hans Günter Hockerts, 1971, p. 4
- ↑ Hans Günter Hockerts, 1971, p. 27 and p. 40.
- ↑ Hans Günter Hockerts, 1971, p. 48
- ↑ Hans Günter Hockerts, 1971, p. 48.
- ↑ “The relatively high number of friars convicted came about through an unusual accumulation of homosexual offenses in a few lay congregations. The Waldbreitbacher Cooperative was particularly affected by this ... "[Hans Günter Hockerts, 1971, p. 50]
- ↑ Hans Günter Hockerts, 1971, p. 52 f.
- ^ History of St. Marienwörth Hospital
- ↑ Ann. Pont. 2007, p. 1503.