Jacob Rem
Jakob Rem SJ (born June 1546 in Bregenz , Vorarlberg ; † October 12, 1618 in Ingolstadt ) was a Catholic priest and youth minister who worked in Bavaria . He founded the Marian Congregations in Germany and the devotion to the Mother Thrice Admirable .
Life
Jakob Rem was the son of a host family. He grew up in Bregenz and in Kisslegg , where his family had moved when he was about ten years old. He attended the Jesuit-run Latin school in Dillingen an der Donau and began studying philosophy at the university in 1564. After graduating as the best of his class in 1566, he joined the Society of Jesus. His superiors sent him to Rome for theological studies , where he - together with Stanislaus Kostka and Claudio Acquaviva - served the novitiate . In 1568 he was sent back to the Dillingen University for further studies; in Augsburg he was ordained a priest in 1573. In the same year he took over the duties of a subregent at the seminary in Dillingen. At the same time, Petrus Canisius worked there , who was then Provincial of the Upper German Province of the Jesuits. In Rome Rem had met the Marian Congregation ; He founded one - as the first in Germany - to promote the more talented students in piety and faith in Dillingen.
In 1585 Rem worked as subregens and minister (responsible for the external affairs of a Jesuit settlement) in Munich, in 1586 he was again appointed as subregens, confessor of the convicts and prefect to Ingolstadt at the Ignatiuskonvikt and the up-and-coming university there. There he founded the Colloquium Marianum in 1595, in addition to the Marian Congregation , to which only particularly qualified students, rarely more than 40 at the same time, were accepted. It existed until 1779. Jakob Bidermann , who later became famous as a playwright , was one of his students . In addition to his other tasks, Rem worked despite his poor health in the spiritual accompaniment of numerous religious and lay people and thereby demonstrated empathy and skill.
Jakob Rem died on October 12, 1618, shortly after the outbreak of the Thirty Years War , which he had foreseen for years.
Worship and beatification process
His contemporaries were certain that his prayer life was mystically gifted. The necrology of the Order ruled: “This year we have lost a man who was known according to the general reputation and judgment as a saint, (...) a man of the highest virtue, but who through his modesty concealed it so that it It will appear that we have given too little to prove his holiness. "
Mathias Tanner , rector of Prague University and religious historian, included Rem in his book, published in 1694, of the Jesuits, who had made an exemplary effort to deepen the faith in their way of life and work.
Rem's bones were first raised in 1694. When they were raised for the second time in 1935, they were transferred to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Beautiful , where they rest in a side chapel by the miraculous image, which has been venerated here since 1881. His veneration is still alive in the diocese of Eichstätt . Already 27 years after his death, the first steps towards a beatification of Rem were taken. The episcopal information process for beatification was started again in 1932 and completed in 1949. The so-called writing process was ended positively on June 21, 1957. After extensive archival work, especially by Rita Haub (1955–2015), the head of the history and media department at the German Province of the Jesuits, on January 17, 2009 the case of Rem was resumed by the Jesuit order. For postulator was Anton Witwer SJ appointed, who also for the desired beatification of the Postulator General of the Jesuits Johann Philipp Jeningen is responsible. In 2010, Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke ordered the reopening of the beatification process.
In Christian art, Jakob Rem is depicted in Jesuit clothing, often with the image of the “Mother Thrice Admirable” and the rule book of the Marian Congregation in hand or praying in front of the image of grace.
Image of grace: Mother three times wonderful
In Rome, in Santa Maria Maggiore , Rem had met and venerated the image of Mary of the Snow (usually called Salus Populi Romani ). In 1571, the order general Francisco de Borja sent copies of this picture to various Jesuit branches, including Ingolstadt. Rem often offered his prayers in front of this picture, which gradually became popular with the students as well. Finally, Rem hung the picture in the chapel where the Marian Congregation and the Marian Colloquium met. On April 6, 1604, Rem recognized during the prayer of the Litany of Laurentia that the Blessed Mother particularly liked the invocation of Mater admirabilis (You wonderful mother). From then on he had this invocation repeated three times, which in time gave the picture the name Three times wonderful mother or Mater Ter Admirabilis .
This picture has been hanging in the Liebfrauenmünster since 1881 - the recovery in which Franz Seraph Hattler took part, who also wrote the first modern and source-critical biography of Rem. In 1942, Bishop Michael Rackl consecrated the diocese of Eichstätt to the Mother of God; Bishop Gregor Hanke repeated this consecration on July 16, 2009 in the Ingolstadt Minster. The feast of the Mother Thrice Admirable is celebrated in this diocese on October 11th.
The well-known miraculous image of the Schoenstatt Movement is the reprint of the painting Refugium peccatorum by Luigi Crosio , which modifies the Roman image of Maria Salus Populi Romani in the style of the time. For this picture , too , the designation Three times wonderful mother or Mater ter admirabilis is common. Josef Kentenich referred to Rem (whom he knew from Hattler's biography) and the Ingolstadt image of Mary when he founded his community in 1914.
Pope Francis visited the miraculous image Salus Populi Romani (in the Roman basilica Santa Maria Maggiore), so valued by Jacob Rem, the morning after his election and laid flowers in front of him.
Image of grace: Mary, the untying woman
In the collegiate church of St. Peter am Perlach (Augsburg) there is the miraculous image of Mary, the untying woman . The pilgrimage picture was donated in 1700 by the patrician Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel , who worked there as a canon from 1666 to 1709 . The foundation is said to be related to an event in the von Langenmantel family. His grandfather Wolfgang Langenmantel (1586–1637), a former student of Jakob Rem, was about to separate from his wife Sophia Rentz (1590–1649) and therefore visited the Jesuit priest in Ingolstadt in 1612 . Father Rem prayed in front of the image of Mary there and said: "In this religious act I lift the bond of marriage, untie all knots and straighten it." Then peace returned between the spouses, the separation did not take place and Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel, as Grandchildren, later commissioned the picture of the “knot loosener” as a reminder. This miraculous image , which is connected with Father Rem, is particularly venerated by Pope Francis , who brought copies of it to Argentina and founded a great pilgrimage to him there.
literature
- Felix Stieve : Rem, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 186 f.
- Ekkart Sauser : REM, Jakob. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1126-1127.
- Mathias Tanner : Societas Jesu, Apostolorum Imitatrix, seu gesta praeclara et virtutes eorum qui è societate Jesu in procuranda salute animarum (...) per totum Orbem terrarum speciali zelo desudarunt. Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, Pragae 1694
- Franz Seraph Hattler: The venerable Father Jakob Rem from the Society of Jesus and his Marian Conference. Edited from the sources and presented as a model for Christian educators and all worshipers of the Mother of God. Manz, Regensburg 1881.
- Johann Feurstein: Life picture of the holy Father Jakob Rem SJ (1546–1618), born in Bregenz, died in Ingolstadt. Teutsch, Bregenz 1931.
- Johannes Metzler: An Apostle of the Young: The Venerable Father Jakob Rem SJ. A picture of life based on the sources. Huber, Munich 1936.
- Anton Höss: Father Jakob Rem SJ: Herald of the wonderful mother. 3rd edition, Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1953.
- Rita Haub , Isidor Vollnhals (ed.): Father Jakob Rem SJ - 400 years of Mother Thrice Admirable in Ingolstadt. German Jesuits, Munich 2004.
- Barbara Bagorski, Ludwig Brandl, Michael Heberling (eds.): 12 male profiles from the diocese of Eichstätt. Willibald, Eichstätt 2009. ISBN 978-3-9813219-0-6
Web links
- Jacob Rem. Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
- Image of grace - (Schoenstatt Info)
- Biography of Jakob Rem. Ingolstadt City Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ 400 Years Mother thrice admirable ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ P. Jakob Rem SJ, short biography on the website of the Jesuits in Austria
- ↑ Rita Haub: Comprehensive statement about Maria. 400 years of vision of the "Mother Thrice Admirable" in Ingolstadt. in: Deutsche Tagespost of April 17, 2004 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Profile of the department at Jesuiten.org ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Home Newsaints
- ^ Homepage of the diocese of Eichstätt: Beatification process for Father Rem: opening in Ingolstadt
- ↑ See Gerhard Wolf: "Salus Populi Romani". The history of Roman cult images in the Middle Ages . VCH, Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1990, ISBN 3-527-17717-5 .
- ↑ Description of the vision ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Diocese of Eichstätt (PDF; 59 kB) church newspaper from December 20, 2009
- ↑ Sermon by Bishop Hanke ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( RTF ; 30 kB)
- ↑ Image of Bishop Hanke in the side chapel in front of the miraculous image, on the side a statue of Jakob Rem
- ↑ Measurement form (PDF; 1.1 MB) in Latin and German
- ^ Homepage of the Schoenstatt Movement
- ^ Genealogical page on the parents and grandparents of Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel
- ↑ To the foundation of the miraculous image "Maria Untouchess". ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bergoglio once studied in Frankfurt am Main . Welt Online , March 14, 2013
- ^ What Pope Francis was doing in Augsburg . In: Augsburger Allgemeine , March 15, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rem, Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rhem, Jakob; Rehm, Jakob; Röm, Jakob; Räm, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1546 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bregenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1618 |
| Place of death | Ingolstadt |