Infirmar
Infirmar or also Infirmarius or Infirmaria (from Latin: infirmus "weak", "sick", plural: infirmi ) denotes a brother or sister who is in the monastery for the care of the sick and the care of constant care Instructor is responsible. He was sometimes referred to as the Siechmeister . In larger monasteries he / she is usually supported by other helpers.
This office is already described in chapter 36 of the Rule of St. Benedict of Nursia . There it says: "The sick brothers should have their own room and their own nurse who fears God and serves them carefully and diligently" .
The room for the sick is called the infirmarium .
With the Hospitallers on Rhodes the infirmarius was the head of the hospital. He was subordinate to the hospitaller , was selected and proposed by him and then appointed by the master and council for a term of two years; on probation, the stalls were renewable. The infirmarius was always a (paid) servient (sergeant, sergeant, sergent), not a knight brother. Like the hospitaller himself, he was supposed to come from Francia's tongue , but could also be called from another.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Sarnowsky: Power and rule in the Order of St. John of the 15th Century: Constitution and administration of St. John on Rhodes (1421-1522). Vita Regularis, Volume 14. LIT Verlag, Münster, 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5481-7 (pp. 282–283)