Jakobus Pfättisch

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Jakobus Pfättisch OSB (born October 31, 1883 in Ingolstadt as Karl Barromäus Pfättisch ; † December 15, 1960 in Regensburg ) was abbot of the Plankstetten monastery .

Life

Pfättisch is the son of a master locksmith in Ingolstadt and had three sisters and three brothers. Two brothers were the religious Johannes Sebastian Pfättisch OSB (1877-1922) and Canisius OSB. He attended high schools in Ingolstadt and Metten . He then entered the Scheyern Monastery . He made his profession on September 3, 1903 . After studying theology in Munich, he was ordained a priest on June 16, 1907 in St. Boniface in Munich . Between 1908 and 1911 he took over pastoral care in Plankstetten, where the Scheyern monastery re-established a priory. In 1916 he became pastor of the monastery parish.

The four monks of the Plankstetten Abbey who were entitled to vote elected him unanimously on August 7, 1927 as the 51st abbot and second abbot after the re-establishment. After confirming on September 3 in 1927 Rome he was Bishop John Leo of marl on September 18, 1927 benediziert . He also took over the management of the agricultural school. In 1924 he gave up looking after the pilgrimage to the Habsberg due to a lack of staff.

Since he did not cooperate with National Socialism, he was arrested by the GeStaPo on February 24th and only released after several weeks.

After the death of Abbot President Placidus Glogger in 1941, he was the first visitor to the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation until the first general chapter after the war. In preparation for the General Chapter in 1946, he suffered a nervous breakdown from which he could not recover. On May 14, 1958 , he resigned from his office. In 1960 he died in the hospital of the Barmherzige Brüder in Regensburg and was buried in the monastery crypt he had built in Plankstetten.

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Individual evidence

  1. Extensions from: P. Petrus Bauer OSB, The Plankstetten Benedictine Abbey in Past and Present, Plankstetten 1979, pp. 84–86.
predecessor Office successor
Wolfgang Eiba OSB Abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Plankstetten
1927–1958
Paulus Heinz OSB