Gregorius water
Under Gregoriuswasser (also Georgian water ) one understands with salt , ashes and wine blended holy water . The name refers to Pope Gregory the Great . Gregorius water can be used to sprinkle the altar and the church during the consecration of the church. When building churches, it is added to the mortar. It is also used for harrying bells . All elements of this holy water mixture can be interpreted as cleaning agents and thus as symbols of purity. The Gregorius water is thus sprinkled to express the cleansing effect of consecration .
The name Gregoriuswasser was first coined in the 14th century - in a factually unfounded reference to Pope Gregory the Great. In the 7th century only wine was added to the holy water. Salt was added as an element in the 8th century. At the end of the 8th century, the ashes were added as the last element. The liturgist Durandus von Mende gave the rite its current form. The Rituale Romanum in the edition of May 29, 1977 no longer mentions Gregorius water.
literature
- Michael Kunzler : Gregorius water . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 4 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, Sp. 1038 .
- Peter Wünsche: To the celebration of the western church fair liturgy from the early Middle Ages to the post-Tridentine pontifical of 1596 . In: Ralf MW Stammberger, Claudia Sticher, Annekatrin Warnke: The House of God, you are yourself: Medieval and Baroque understanding of the church as reflected in the consecration of the church (Volume 6 by Erudiri sapientia ). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-003780-6
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Wünsche, Peter: On the celebration of the western church fair liturgy from the early Middle Ages to the post-Tridentine pontifical of 1596 , p. 122