Joseph Mariétan

Joseph Mariétan (born February 2, 1874 in Val-d'Illiez , † January 10, 1943 in Annecy ) was abbot of Saint-Maurice Abbey and Bishop of Bethlehem .

Life

Joseph-Tobie Mariétan came from a respected family that has been recorded in the Val d'Illiez since 1364 , and was born there in 1874 as the son of the farmer Pierre-Tobie Mariétan and Marie-Catherine nee. Mariétan born. At the age of fourteen, on September 7, 1888, he entered the rudimentist class of the College of Saint-Maurice and entered on August 28, 1894, the day of St. Augustine of Hippo , entered the novitiate of the abbey. He made his solemn profession on September 4, 1898 and was ordained a priest on September 3, 1899. In 1901 he was at the University of Freiburg summa cum laude Doctor of Philosophy PhD .

He then taught at the College of Saint-Maurice, where in 1909 he took over the leadership of the rhetoric class from Joseph Abbet, who was elected abbot, and in 1913 the philosophical courses for the late Canon Guillaume de Courten († April 20, 1913). Ten days after the death of Abbet Abbet († August 3, 1914) he was elected as his successor and on December 6, 1914, Cardinal Basilio Pompili in the Church of the Sisters of Mercy in Rome made him Bishop of Bethlehem (the traditional title of the abbots of St. -Maurice). Consecration assistants were the retired Bishop Dominic Jaquet OFMConv von Jassy and the Curia Bishop Raffaele Virili . After two private audiences with Pope Benedict XV. Bishop Mariétan traveled back to St-Maurice on December 16.

Social and journalistic commitment

Although intended for teaching after his doctorate, Mariétan's interests lay in other areas. Influenced by the social encyclical Rerum Novarum Leos XIII published in 1891 . He founded a social science study group (Cercle d'études sociales) as early as 1901 at the college , which met with a great response and lasted until 1907. At the same time, he founded a circle with similar objectives for young people in the community of St-Maurice (Cercle social de St-Maurice) . The in-house magazine Les Echos de St-Maurice , founded in 1899, served as a journalistic tool for his social commitment , which he had taken over the editing and to which he gave the programmatic name L'Eveil (awakening), revue sociale et religieuse in January 1908 . The magazine found important authors, but not the desired response and was discontinued in December 1912. It only came back to life in 1916 under the original title Les Echos de St-Maurice . Far more successful than the magazine was the establishment of a printing company Imprimerie Saint-Augustin in St-Maurice, which printed books, religious writings and parish letters.

Gregorian Reform

Deeply impressed by Pope Pius X's Motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini on sacred music (November 22, 1903), Mariétan founded a Gregorian choir at the College in November 1907, which made rapid progress and became a model and impetus for further choirs to be founded in the area has been. There are also articles on this topic in the magazine L'Eveil .

In early May 1924, the 1400th anniversary of the death of St. Sigismund of Burgundy committed with great public participation. In the same month Mariétan celebrated his 50th birthday, his silver jubilee as a priest and his tenth anniversary as a bishop. On this occasion, a Gregorian mass composed and conducted by Auguste Sérieyx was performed with the student choir.

Expansion of the school

The school also had a wide outward appearance, the number of pupils increasing considerably, which required a new construction and expansion, which was completed in 1916. Several canons were appointed as teachers and advisors to other schools ( Porrentruy , Lugano ). In 1927, with the support of the abbey, a business school was opened in Sierre , which was run by canons.

In order to convey his ideas of a solid academic education, Mariétan was also active in the Swiss Student Association and its numerous high school and academic sections. a. as “club papa” of Agaunia and president of Vallensis (1914–1919).

Missionary activity

After there had been several plans to establish mission stations in Asia (and Sweden) since 1925 and a first canon had been installed in Indochina, Canons of St-Maurice took over a mission in Bangalore , India, from the Paris Society for the in January 1930 Foreign missions . This missionary activity soon had to be given up and was continued in Sikkim ( Nepal ) in 1937 .

resignation

Increasing tensions with the monastery community, the Bishop of Sitten and the political authorities led to several complaints in Rome and an apostolic visitation in 1928. After the visitor to the Vatican Congregation had recommended the abbot's resignation and his removal from St-Maurice, Mariétan submitted on 8 January 1931 in Rome his resignation. Transferred to the titular seat of Agathopolis , he settled in Annecy, where he worked as auxiliary bishop and pastor for twelve years.

Works

• Problems of the classification of the sciences d'Aristote à S. Thomas . St-Maurice and Paris, 1901 ( digitized ), dissertation, Friborg, 1901

literature

• François-Marie Bussard: "Son Excellence Monseigneur Joseph Mariétan, évêque titulaire d'Agathopolis". In: Les Echos de Saint-Maurice 3-4, 1943, pp. 35-69
• "Abbés de L'abbaye de St-Maurice, chanoines réguliers de St-Augustin". In: Helvetia Sacra IV / 1, pp. 406-480, here: pp. 475f.

Web links

• Entry on Joseph Mariétan on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph-Émile Abbet	Abbot of Saint-Maurice 1914–1931	Bernhard Alexis Burquier
Joseph-Émile Abbet	Titular Bishop of Bethlehem 1914–1931	Bernhard Alexis Burquier
Pedro Pascual Miguel Martínez y	Titular Bishop of Agathopolis 1931–1943	Casimiro Morcillo González