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John II after work (* around 1440 in Bremgarten ; † September 16, 1508 in Muri ) was from 1500 to 1508 as John II Abbot of the Muri Monastery in the Free Offices (in today's canton of Aargau ).

origin

After work (in old documents also “Firabent”, “Virabent”, “Fyrabend” and others) came from Bremgarten in what was then the county of Baden . His parents are probably the citizen Hans Firaben or Firoben / Virobent / Virabent, mentioned in a document in 1458 (at that time no fixed spelling of the name had developed) and his wife Elsbeth.

Act

After he was mentioned as a monk or conventual from 1480 and as prior of the Muri monastery from 1491 and was active as a folk priest in Sursee from January 1497 , work ended on the occasion of the death of Abbot Johannes Hagenauer (1480-1500 ) elected abbot of the monastery.

After he had succeeded in building this up into a respectable convent and, unlike his last predecessors, he had not committed any moral misconduct, the especially godly evening on July 12, 1507, was given by Pope Julius II for himself and his successors Bishopric in the form of pontificals ( miter , staff and pectoral with the associated rights) conferred. In the papal bull the reason was: "Your undeniable love for God and the majesty of religion deserve that we honor both you, to whom we are devoted in pure love, and the monastery of Muri."

Johannes Feierabend increased the property of the monastery in 1504 by purchasing meadows and in 1508 introduced a "talking" coat of arms for the monastery, namely the wall (Latin: Mura), and venerated the monastery church's glass paintings . On October 16, 1508, Laurentius von Heidegg was elected to succeed him as abbot .

estate

The parchment pontifical with liturgical texts for the episcopal high mass and other celebrations, which Jerge Schenk made for the occasion of the conferral of the episcopal dignity, documents with historicized initials , decorated edges and the entrance page with a picture of the donor the increased demands on the book decoration after the rank increase .

His coat of arms from 1505, originally located in the choir of the Merenschwand parish church and preserved on a coat of arms disk ascribed to the artist Oswald Goeschel from Lucerne , shows a black house brand (triangle ending in a cross) on a gold background. On a miniature that was created in 1508 in the Diocese of Constance , Johannes Feierabend kneels with Mary over the body of Christ .

Web links

• Johannes after work on www.muri-gries.ch

literature

• Martin Kiem: History of the Benedictine Abbey Muri-Gries. Volume 1. 1881, p. 384.
• Karl Schröter: Argovia. 1895, p. 64.
• Plazidus Hartmann: The coat of arms of the valley people of Engelberg. In: Swiss Archives for Heraldry , Volume LXI, 1947.
• Alfred A. Schmid: Investigations into book illumination of the 16th century in Switzerland. 1954, p. 41.
• Kurt Strebel: The Benedictine Abbey of Muri in the post-Reformation period. 1967, pp. 18, 26, 56, 96, 145.
• Albert Bruckner : Helvetia Sacra Volume III. 1972, p. 931.
• Adolf Bucher: The Reformation in the free offices and in the city of Bremgarten until 1531. P. 27, 59, 60.
• The history friend: Announcements of the historical association of the five towns Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug , 1974, p. 30.
• Frank O. Büttner: Imitatio pietatis: Motifs of Christian iconography as models for similarization. 1983, pp. 100, 204.
• Charlotte Bretscher-Gisiger, Rudolf Gamper: Catalog of the medieval manuscripts of the monasteries Muri and Hermetschwil. 2005, p. 37 f., PDF

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes I. Hagnauer	Abbot of Muri 1500–1508	Laurentius von Heidegg