Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer

Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer

Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer (* 15. May 1777 in Verl , † 2. June 1858 in Telgte ) was Franciscan pater and founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Mauritz .

Life

Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer was born on May 15, 1777 in Verl. He attended school in Gütersloh or Rietberg and studied philosophy in the Franciscan monastery in Warendorf, then theology in their main monastery in Münster. In Hamm he entered the novitiate of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross on September 13, 1801 . A year later he made his profession . He was ordained a priest on January 24, 1805, after which he finished his studies and was employed in pastoral care. In Hamm he entered the novitiate of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross on September 13, 1801 . A year later he made his profession. He was ordained a priest on January 24, 1805, after which he finished his studies and was employed in pastoral care.

After the dissolution of the Franciscan monastery in Münster in 1811, Bernsmeyer went to Telgte as a pilgrimage pastor and chaplain . In 1844 Bernsmeyer bought a former leprosarium in Telgte with his own funds . There he had an orphanage and later a hospital built. From this the Congregation of Nurses of the Regulated Third Order of St. Francis of Munster. At his death in 1858 there were 150 sisters in 23 branches. Today it has many charitable organizations in Germany, North America, Japan, Poland and India.

Bernsmeyer died in Telgte on June 2, 1858. His grave has been in the nurses' cemetery at St. Rochus Hospital in Telgte since 1950 .

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 544.
• Wilhelm Forster:  Bernsmeyer, Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 132 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Entry to Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer on medal online

Footnotes

1. ↑ See ORDEN online, accessed on July 2, 2010
2. ↑ On the Franciscan study monasteries, see Didakus Falke: Kloster und Gymnasium Antonianum der Franziskaner zu Geseke (= Franciscan Studies, Supplement 1). Aschendorff, Münster 1915, p. 48.
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2013 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.  
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2016 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.