Hermann Cohen (Carmelite)

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Father Augustine Mary of the Most Holy Sacrament in the Dress of the Discalced Carmelites, 1850
Herman Cohen as a young pianist, Paris, around 1835
Cenotaph P. Hermann Cohen's OCD in the cathedral cemetery of St. Hedwig (2011)

Hermann Cohen OCD , religious name Augustin Maria of the Most Holy Sacrament , (born November 10, 1820 in Hamburg , † January 20, 1871 in Spandau ) was a pianist and priest in the order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel ( Carmelites ).

Life

Hermann Cohen was born in Hamburg in 1820 as the son of a Jewish banking family. He became a student of Franz Liszt in Paris and was known as a musical child prodigy. Soon he was one of the most sought-after pianists of his time and led a dissolute as well as expensive life; at times he played excessively. The writer George Sand , known for her unconventional lifestyle , was one of his closest friends, introduced Cohen to Parisian society and gave him the nickname "Puzzi".

When he was in a liaison with a circus rider, in May 1847, as part of his music work, he represented a choir director at a Catholic service. Here he came - completely unexpectedly according to his own statements - with a feeling that his previous life seemed questionable and meaningless to him. Cohen first sought advice from the Catholic converted Jew and clergyman Théodore Ratisbonne . He prepared him for baptism . In 1847 Cohen also converted to the Christian faith and was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church on August 28 of that year .

In 1849 he joined the Order of the Discalced Carmelites in Le Broussey near Bordeaux. When dressed , he received the religious name Augustin Maria of the Most Holy Sacrament (Augustin Marie du Très Saint Sacrement) . Br. Augustin Maria made his first profession on October 7, 1850 and was ordained a priest in 1851 . After working as a preacher and people's missionary in France , he founded the first branch of the Discalced Carmelites in London in 1863 . In 1868 he first returned to France, in 1870/71 he was pastor of French prisoners of war in Berlin-Spandau ( St. Marien am Behnitz ). He died as a result of a smallpox infection that he contracted while serving in prison chaplaincy.

The Cohens brothers, Albert and Louis Cohen, founded a shoe factory in Hamburg in 1856, later the Phoenix factory .

Adoration

Broussey Monastery (2014)

Father Augustin Maria Cohen's grave was first located in the crypt of St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, and after the Second World War in St. Hedwig's cemetery.

The relics were transferred from Berlin to the monastery church Le Broussey in Rions on December 2, 2008 , where Cohen had been the novice master since 1868 . After the bones of Father Augustin Maria were raised a few years ago, the Archbishop of Bordeaux, Jean-Pierre Ricard , opened the beatification process in April 2016 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Cohen (Karmelit)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Article: Bones of Hermann Cohen OCD transferred to France on December 16, 2008 on medals, accessed online on April 20, 2011
  2. A new blessed for Berlin? Beatification proceedings for Carmelites Father Hermann Cohen opened , April 22, 2016, accessed on April 1, 2019.