Jodoku's brother

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Jodoku's brother OSB (* 1442 in Biberach an der Riss ; † May 19, 1529 in Ochsenhausen ) was the 5th abbot of the later imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

Life

Jodokus came to the Ochsenhausen monastery as a novice in 1457 at the age of fifteen . Before that he was under the supervision of an ecclesiastical uncle at the Fürststift in Kempten , where he received his first literary education. In 1468 under Abbot Michael Ryssel he was appointed prior of the monastery and elected abbot in 1476. During his tenure, some border disputes between Thannheim and the Buxheim monastery, which is now in Bavaria, were amicably settled. In 1481 a mysterious illness was reported to have occurred in the area of ​​the monastery. It is said to have created worms in the cavities of the head. After a six-year term in office , Abbot Jodokus resigned .

Jodokus with Niklaus von Flüe

From Joachim Kuon's diary from 1680, it is recorded that Abbot Jodokus is said to have made a pilgrimage to Niklaus von Flüe in Flüeli near Sachseln in the canton of Obwalden , Switzerland , in 1482 . The hermit, who allegedly did not eat anything other than the Eucharist in the last nineteen years of his life and only drank water, was then the destination of many pilgrims and seekers of help. Abbot Jodokus is said to have asked Nicholas if he believed he could be saved as an abbot. This is said to have answered him with the single word "hardly" . The advice of Niklaus von Flüe, also called Brother Klaus, had the character of an oracle at the time . This advice is said to have moved Abbot Jodokus to voluntarily resign from his abbot status. After resignation he led a pious life and devoted himself to the sacrament of confession , choral singing and the science of salvation for the next 47 years . He experienced three other successors in his office and died on May 19, 1529 at the age of 87.

literature

  • Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia. Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829, pp. 59-61 ( digitized version ).
  • Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. The secularization in the German southwest 1803. Large state exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2003. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 (exhibition catalog and essay volume).
  • Volker Himmelein, Franz Quarthal (Ed.): Vorderösterreich, Only the tail feather of the imperial eagle? The Habsburgs in the German southwest. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-277-0 (catalog of the state exhibition).
predecessor Office successor
Johannes Knuss OSB Abbot of Ochsenhausen
1476–1482
Simon Lengenberger OSB