Juliane Engelbrecht

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Juliane Engelbrecht (also: Juliana Engelbrecht) (* February 7, 1835 in Burgweinting , Bavaria ; † April 7, 1853 there ) was a Catholic virgin and sufferer who is said to have lived only on the Holy Eucharist for a period of eight years .

Life

Juliane Engelbrecht was born as the sixth of eight children of the married couple Georg and Regina Engelbrecht at the Bruckhof in Burgweinting, then a small village southeast of Regensburg . The parents were simple and pious small farmers. Engelbrecht developed according to his age and showed no signs of a special pardon. According to contemporary witnesses, her behavior should always have been impeccable, her performance in school good, especially in religious instruction and in the natural sciences.

After Engelbrecht had received first communion at the age of ten, it was noticeable that she could not keep any food or vomited after leaving church. Since this condition lasted for days, the helpless parents of the girl, who initially believed that this condition was caused by stubbornness and imagination of their daughter, consulted the Regensburg doctor Dr. Karl Herrich-Schäffer. He first tried to relieve Engelbrecht's condition with tablets , but that didn't help either, she vomited them too, and she couldn't even keep water with her. As a result, drug therapy was discontinued.

Although Engelbrecht had been eating almost no food since April 1845, i.e. from the age of 11, her further development was normal analogous to that of other children. Engelbrecht's only food was that for Holy Communion , which she received every eight to fourteen days. In addition to the inability to keep food to himself, Engelbrecht subsequently suffered another strange form of almost unbearable pain, which increased particularly on Fridays. The young girl was only symptom-free on high holidays and was often even able to be carried to church . Many visitors gathered at Engelbrecht's sickbed, who promised themselves consolation and edification. The number of visitors was so high that the responsible parish office felt compelled to only admit visitors to Engelbrecht with express permission. Even natural scientists from Berlin came to Burgweinting. The then Bishop of Regensburg Valentin von Riedl also visited Engelbrecht and she received religious literature from the Carmelites in Regensburg, which she studied diligently when her condition permitted. According to contemporary witnesses, Engelbrecht was usually found this way: she was holding the rosary in her hand and one or more religious books or pictures were lying on the bed. People from Engelbrecht's environment are also said to have said that the young girl received Holy Communion "like an angel", that is, in angelic devotion, and that it was encouraging to see Engelbrecht communicate.

At the age of 18, the young woman fell asleep forever and was initially buried in the Burgweintinger cemetery. Dr. Herrich-Schäffer is said to have carried out a dissection on Engelbrecht's corpse in the presence of an assistant doctor , the result of which was that no slag was found in the intestines . Only parts of unleavened bread, i.e. the sacred host, are said to have been detected microscopically.

Afterlife

Juliane Engelbrecht was highly admired by the Burgweintinger population. In 1919, at the instigation of the mayor, a little book about her life was published. During the Second World War and the post-war period, it was common for the first communicants from Regensburg to move to Engelbrecht's grave to pray there. In 1946, Bishop Michael Buchberger allowed the remains to be reburied inside the church, where her grave is still located today under the Joseph Altar. The political community honored Engelbrecht by renaming a street after her in "Julianenweg". At the beginning of the 1970s, the popular folk writer Pastor Alfons Maria Weigl published the book Life from the Eucharistic Lord about the life of the godly Juliane Engelbrecht. In 2003 the parish commemorated the 150th anniversary of Engelbrecht's death with a memorial mass. Time and again people come to her grave to ask for her intercession and pray for her beatification . The beatification process has not yet been initiated.

literature

  • Karl Bauer : Regensburg. From art, culture and moral history . Regensburg, 1988.
  • Johann Baptist Lehner and Anton Stiegler: Burgweinting. Contributions to the history of a village on the outskirts of Regensburg . Regensburg, 1936
  • Johann Baptist Mehler (ed.): Juliana Engelbrecht, the God-blessed Virgin of Burgweinting, a Eucharistic passion flower and the blessed Nikolaus von der Flüe. Two role models and intercessors for the Christian peasantry. Regensburg, 1919.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f The godly Juliane Engelbrecht, Burgweinting sS germania-catholica.blogspot.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Alfons Maria Weigl : Life from the Eucharistic Lord. From the life of the godly Juliana Engelbrecht. Altötting publishing house, St. Grigionhaus 1971.
  3. ↑ Life from the Eucharistic Lord Fig. Title page of the book adS zvab.com
personal data
SURNAME Engelbrecht, Juliane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelbrecht, Juliana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic virgin and sufferer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgweinting , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1853
Place of death Burgweinting , Bavaria