Pirminius

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Abbot Adalbert von Hornbach hands over his codex to St. Pirminius. Illumination, Hornbach sacramentary, around 983

Pirminius , originally Primenius or Priminius or Pirmin , (* around 670; † November 3, 753 in Hornbach Monastery ) was a monastery founder and is venerated as a saint .

His Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Memorial Day is the day of his death, November 3rd.

Life

St. Pirminius as a snake repeller, woodcut, Nuremberg, 1475
Münster Mittelzell , Reichenau, St. Pirminius, stained glass, 1556
Original burial site, Hornbach Monastery
Pirminius relic (Vorderhaupt), Pirmasens , parish church St. Pirmin

Its origin is uncertain. In history, Ireland, southwest Gaul and Paris are discussed as homeland. The doctrine of the peregrinatio , which is demonstrably represented by Pirminius, speaks for an Irish origin . Saint Pirminius is considered the messenger of faith of the Irish Scottish mission in southwest Germany and in Alsace. He is one of the wandering monks who proclaimed the Christian faith and reorganized church life in the Frankish Empire, which was steeped in paganism for a long time after the migration period . He acts on behalf of the Carolingians , especially the house manger Karl Martell .

Characteristic of his work was the founding of monasteries, to which he gave the rule of the order of St. Benedict of Nursia and which became centers of the preaching of the faith in the respective region. Pirminius is considered to be the forerunner of the Reformed Abbot Benedict von Aniane , who in 817 made all the monasteries of the Frankish Empire subject to the Benedictine observance.

In 724 he founded the Mittelzell monastery on the Bodensee island of Reichenau . Several monasteries between the Black Forest and the Vosges followed , including Gengenbach , Murbach , Weißenburg , Maursmünster and Neuweiler . Around 730 he built the first church in the Murrhardt district . He renewed the Schuttern monastery . His last monastery was founded around 741 at Hornbach Monastery in the south-west of Palatinate.

There he died on November 3rd - probably in 753 - and was buried. When the Hornbach monastery was abolished during the Reformation , the last Hornbach abbot, Count Anton von Salm , saved St. Pirmin's bones to Speyer in 1558 . From there, the former President of the Imperial Court of Justice and governor of Tyrol , Count Schweikhard von Helfenstein , took it to his residence in Innsbruck in 1575 . Here they are today in a modern shrine in the Innsbruck Jesuit Church . After the Hornbach grave was rediscovered in 1953, some of the relics were returned. Today they are kept in Hornbach , Speyer and Pirmasens .

At the end of the eighth century, Pirminius was referred to in a Metz manuscript as "Sanctus", a saint.

Adoration

He is the patron saint of the Palatinate , Alsace , the island of Reichenau and the patron saint of Innsbruck and Pirmasens . His intercession is invoked for a happy birth. He should also help against snakes and the plague.

Patronage:

More: The St. Pirmin seminar  in Sasbach, the St. Pirmin student home , a boarding school for boys in Dahn, were named after the saint, as was the former mother-child therapy center St. Pirmin in Dahn. The Pirminius workshops in Pirmasens, a facility for disabled employees of the Heinrich Kimmle Foundation , as well as the Pirminius residential complex and the Pirminius School in Pirmasens also bear his name .

The name of the town of Pirmasens is derived from him, as well as possibly that of the town of Bierbach . The first name is Pirmin , the family name is Pirmann , Pfirrmann u. Ä. before.

Works

  • Scarapsus. In: Ursmar Engelmann : Saint Pirmin and his little pastoral book (= Reichenau library. Vol. 1). Introduced and translated into German. 2nd, revised edition. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1976, ISBN 3-7995-3501-2 .
  • Scarapsus (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Sources on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 25). Edited by Eckhard Hauswald. Hahn, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-7752-1025-6 (also: Konstanz, University, dissertation, 2005/2006).

literature

Web links

Commons : Pirminius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Ammerich : Pirminius. 1,250 years ago: Pirmin, the Palatine messenger of faith, died in Hornbach. District Association of the Palatinate
  2. ↑ a b c Pia Heberer: The Hornbach monastery in the Palatinate. Building history and sacral topography (= research on Palatine archeology. Vol. 3). General Directorate for Cultural Heritage - Regional Archeology Directorate - Speyer branch, Speyer 2010, ISBN 978-3-936113-02-0 , p. 11, (also: Tübingen, University, dissertation, 2007).
  3. ↑ Website with information on the Pirminius relics in Innsbruck
  4. ↑ pirmasens.de
predecessor Office successor
--- Abbot of Reichenau
724–727 		Heddo
personal data
SURNAME Pirminius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Monastery founder and saint
DATE OF BIRTH around 670
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 753
Place of death Hornbach Monastery