Gerebernus

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Gerebernus (also Gerebern or Gerbert ) is a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church .

The legend

According to the biography Vitae Dymphnae et S. Gereberni presbiteri (English: biographies of Dymphna and the holy priest Gerebern ), which Peter of Cambrai, a canon of the Abbey of St-Géry-et-Aubert in Cambrai , recorded in the 13th century, Gerebernus was an Irish priest who lived in the 6th / 7th centuries. Century lived. He was the tutor of Dymphna , the daughter of an Irish tribal king. After the mother's death, the king wanted to marry his daughter Dymphna, who then fled with Gerebernus to Geel in what is now Belgium , where they were discovered and beheaded by the king. According to legend, both Dymphnas and Gerebernus' bones were stolen in their coffins by "robbers from Xanten " from Geel. According to popular belief, stealing the bones of saints was not considered theft, as they could only be stolen if the saint consented. However, Dymphna's bones could no longer be moved on the way to Xanten, and some citizens of Geels are said to have pursued the "robbers" so that these parts of Gerebernus' bones took from the coffin and fled. Only a few kilometers before Xanten, in the area of ​​today's Sonsbeck , Gerebernus' bones could no longer be transported, so that they were buried at the same place and a chapel was built for him.

The pilgrimage to St. Gerebernus

The Gerebernus Chapel in Sonsbeck

Reports on at the grave of St. Miracles that happened to Gerebernus triggered pilgrimages there. The pilgrimage to St. Gerebernus in the 18th century. The pilgrimage ended with the destruction of Sonsbeck in the bombing war in 1945.

Iconography and worship

Gerebernus is usually depicted as a bearded priest. His iconographic sacred attributes are palm and lance.

St. Gerebernus is the patron saint of chiragra ( gout-related pain in the wrist), paralysis and epilepsy. His Catholic feast day is May 15th . Sometimes July 13 is also mentioned as a day of remembrance.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Petrus Kuyl: Legend of the martelars van Gheel SS. Dimphna en Gerebernus opgevolgd van eene reeks wonderful genezingen door de voorspraek of H. Dimphna got, alsmede eenige oefeningen van devotie tot de H. patrones van Gheel . J.-E. Buschmann, Antwerp 1860.
  • Ferdinand Heuckenkamp : The holy Dimphna . R. Oldenbourg, Halle 1887.
  • Georg Schreiber : Iroschottische and Anglo-Saxon wandering cults in Westphalia . In: Heinrich Börsting , Alois Schröer (eds.): Westfalia sacra. Sources and research on the history of the church in Westphalia , vol. 2. Aschendorff, Münster 1950, pp. 1–132, on Gerebernus, pp. 33–37.
  • Roger Aubert: Art. Dimphna . In: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de geographie ecclésiastique , Vol. 14: Dabert - Eger . Letouzey, Paris 1960, pp. 1245-1246.
  • Wilhelm Wüsten: Chronicle of Sonsbeck . Sonsbeck 1965; therein chapter 2: How does St. Gerebernus get to Sonsbeck? , Pp. 14-20.
  • Heinrich Janssen : Pilgrimages on the Lower Rhine . In: Heinrich Janssen, Udo Grote (Hg :): Two millennia history of the church on the Lower Rhine . Dialogverlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-933144-02-7 , pp. 397–411, therein p. 402: Kriechaltar des hl. Gerebernus .
  • Ekkart Sauser :  Gerebern. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 502.  ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b c Heinrich Janssen: Pilgrimages on the Lower Rhine . In: Heinrich Janssen, Udo Grote (Hg :): Two millennia history of the church on the Lower Rhine . Dialogverlag, Münster 1998, p. 402.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Wüsten: Chronicle of Sonsbeck . Sonsbeck 1965, pp. 14-20.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Roßhoff: Sonsbeck community on the Lower Rhine (= Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 313). Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1986, ISBN 3-88094-529-2 , p. 22.
  4. ^ Margret Wensky: Churches and denominations . In this. (Ed.): Sonsbeck. The history of the Lower Rhine community from the early days to the present . Böhlau, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-412-06103-4 , pp. 104-134, here p. 113.
  5. ^ Karl Künstle: Iconography of Christian Art , Vol. 2: Iconography of the Saints . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1926, pp. 190–192.
  6. ↑ Louis Réau : Iconographie de l'art chrétien , Vol. 3: Iconography of the saints , Part Volume 1: A - F . Paris 1958, pp. 407-408.
  7. ^ Heinrich Samson: The saints as church patrons and their selection for the archdiocese of Cologne and for the dioceses of Münster, Paderborn, Trier, Hildesheim and Osnabrück . Verlag der Bonifacius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1892, p. 198.

Web links

  • Heinrich Samson: The saints as church patrons and their selection for the archdiocese of Cologne and for the dioceses of Münster, Paderborn, Trier, Hildesheim and Osnabrück . Paderborn 1892, p. 198 .
  • Martyrdom of St. Dymphna and St. Gerebernus , copper engraving, 1606.
personal data
SURNAME Gerebernus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerebern, Gerbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION catholic martyr and saint
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH 7th century
Place of death Geel