Sanctuary tour Kornelimünster
The Kornelimünster sanctuary tour is closely related to the Aachen , Maastricht and Mönchengladbach sanctuary tours and takes place every seven years.
The Benedictine monastery in Kornelimünster
Benedict von Aniane (750–821) founded the Kornelimünster monastery around 814 . As an advisor to Emperor Ludwig the Pious, Benedict von Aniane enforced the rule of his predecessor Benedict of Nursia (480-547) in the Franconian Empire as the authoritative rule for monastic life. The monastery was initially known as the Redeemer Monastery on the Inde . From the 12th century onwards, the worship of Pope Kornelius († 253) led to a change of patronage and name to Kornelimünster . The reliquary treasures from the founding time then led to the tradition of the cornelioctave and the sanctuary journey in the Middle Ages. The tradition of the Kornelioktav around the saint's feast day, September 16, was continued by the parish of Kornelimünster after the abbey was abolished in 1802.
In 1906 the Benedictines came back to Kornelimünster and founded the new Benedictine Abbey Kornelimünster outside the town . Since the sanctuary trip in 1986, three large altarpieces by the artist Janet Brooks Gerloff refer to the biblical scenes from the Kornelimünster relics.
Three sanctuaries
The sanctuaries in Kornelimünster are exclusively Christ's relics: According to tradition, the apron is the cloth that Jesus tied around himself when he washed the disciples' feet at the Last Supper. According to tradition, the shroud was used at the burial of Christ. The handkerchief is said to be that cloth which, according to Jewish custom, wrapped the head of the body of Jesus in the grave.
The three cloth relics originally come from the reliquary treasure that Charlemagne had given to his Palatine Chapel. Louis the Pious , his son and successor, took them from this treasure and gave them to Kornelimünster. While the sanctuaries in Aachen are kept in a precious shrine , the relics in Kornelimünster are only in a simple wooden box.
Sanctuary tour
The three sanctuaries, which are closely related to the four sanctuaries in Aachen , are shown to the faithful every seven years, as in Aachen also in Kornelimünster. In a document from 1359 it can be read that the usual and biblical rhythm of seven years was used. The Holy towels from the outer gallery of the late were shown the Middle Ages built Propsteikirche . This tradition has continued to this day. The last trip to the sanctuary where the relics were in the possession of the Benedictine abbey took place in 1790. Four years later, they had to be brought to Paderborn to be safe from Napoleon's troops .
Kornelimünster owed the bishop of the first Aachen diocese to handing over the sanctuaries to the new parish of St. Kornelius. The parish became the bearer of the pilgrimage instead of the monastery . In the course of the 19th century, initially reluctantly, the pilgrimage to the shrine began again. In 1916 the sanctuary trip was canceled because of the First World War . In 1937, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen showed the sanctuaries of Kornelimünster from the galleries of the St. Kornelius Church. After the Second World War the tradition of the sanctuary tour was taken up again and since 1979 the sanctuary tour has been placed under a central theme. In 2007 the sanctuary trips were carried out in Aachen, Kornelimünster and Mönchengladbach .
The sanctuary tour Kornelimünster 2014 took place parallel to the big sanctuary tour Aachen from 20. – 29. June 2014. Like Aachen, it had the motto “Faith in motion” and also celebrated the 1200th year of Kornelimünster.
literature
- Franz Bock : The reliquary treasures of the former imperial abbeys of Burtscheid and Cornelimünster, together with the sanctuaries of the former collegiate church of St. Adalbert and the Theresianer Church of Aachen: in memory of the Sanctuary Tour of 1867 . Cologne 1867. Digitized
- Albert J. Urban (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the pilgrimage sites - their history and today's meaning. Voltmedia Verlag, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-35-7 , p.?.