Thirty women
The woman in her thirties denotes the time between the feasts of the Assumption on August 15th and the name of the Virgin Mary on September 12th. In a Roman indulgence document dated October 28, 2003 for the Upper Bavarian pilgrimage site Buchenhüll in Eichstätt , this special time of grace for the veneration of Mary is dated from the first Vespers of the Solemnity of the Assumption to the setting of the sun on the memory of the pain of Mary on September 15. It is therefore a Marian month in summer, building on Mary's personal Easter festival.
Its origin lies above all in the concrete experience after which this period is considered a particularly favorable time for collecting herbs, which are then ascribed their greatest healing power. The custom was adopted into Christianity . In a Catholic herb consecration prayer it says:
“God, you announced through Isaiah in the Old Covenant: Rice will grow from the stump of Jesse, from the stump of Jesse, David's father, a young shoot from its roots will bear fruit.
We sing again and again at Christmas time: A rose has sprung from a delicate root, from Jesse, from Isai, David's father, came the species. The little rose, of which Isaiah says, is Mary, the pure.
This little rose, this rice from Isai's stump, this branch of Jesse, this virgam Jesse, namely the most blessed virgin and the Mother of God, the mother of your Son and our Lord Jesus Christ, you have lifted up to heaven this day so that you may make us mortals upon hers Asking the fruit of her body, your son, to mediate under her patronage: we humbly ask you that, by virtue of the authority of this your son and under the glorious patronage of his mother, we use the protective effects of these fruits of the earth for earthly and eternal salvation capital"
In the Bavarian-Tyrolean Alpine region in particular, women in their thirties have been a period of pronounced devotion to Mary . The customs and traditions associated with women in their thirties in Bavaria are vividly described in the novel Die Rumplhanni (1916) by Lena Christ .
Numerous evening devotions and pilgrimages are held in honor of the Patrona Bavariae and on the occasion of the herbal consecration associated with the solemnity of the physical acceptance of Mary into heaven . The best known are the pilgrimage of the alpine farmers to Hinterriß and the pilgrimage from Munich to the Marienkirche in Ramersdorf (Maria Ramersdorf). In the episcopal town of Eichstätt , this time is celebrated with solemn afternoon devotions in the Buchenhüll district both in the Marian pilgrimage church and at the Lourdes grotto. The closing of women in their thirties at the Lourdes Grotto takes place on a Sunday close to the commemoration of the Sorrows of Mary (in September) and is also entered into the official calendar of the Diocese of Eichstätt every year .
Individual evidence
- ^ Decree of the Apostolic Penitentiary
- ↑ Isaiah 11 : 1 EU : "From the stump of Jesse a rice grows, a young shoot from its roots brings fruit."
- ↑ Calendar of the Diocese of Eichstätt ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
