Capuchin Province Austria-South Tyrol

The Capuchin Province of Austria-South Tyrol is part of the worldwide Capuchin Order with around 10,500 order members. The seat of the provincial council is the Capuchin monastery in Innsbruck . The province has around 120 Capuchins in 20 branches. The patron saint of the province is St. Lawrence of Brindisi .

history

A lack of brothers in the Austrian Capuchin Province and in the Capuchin Province of Brixen led to the merger of the two provinces on May 10, 2011 to form the Capuchin Province of Austria-South Tyrol. In addition, Capuchins from the province of Krakow (Poland) also work in Austria.

List of Ministers Provincial

1. 2011: Br. Lech Siebert
2. 2014: Br. Lech Siebert
3. 2017: Br. Erich Geir

List of branches of the province

• Capuchin monastery Bolzano
• Capuchin monastery in Brixen
• Capuchin monastery in Bruneck
• Feldkirch Capuchin Monastery
• Capuchin monastery in Fügen
• Capuchin monastery Gauenstein
• Hartberg Capuchin Monastery
• Capuchin monastery Imst
• Capuchin monastery Innsbruck
• Capuchin monastery Irdning
• Capuchin monastery in Klagenfurt
• Capuchin monastery in Leibnitz
• Place of pilgrimage Maria Fieberbründl
• Capuchin monastery Merano
• Capuchin monastery Neumarkt
• Capuchin monastery in Schlanders
• Capuchin monastery Salzburg
• Capuchin monastery in Sterzing
• Capuchin monastery Vienna
• Capuchin monastery Wiener Neustadt

Former monasteries

• Capuchin monastery Bezau (1655–1975)
• Capuchin monastery Lana (1648–2013)
• Capuchin monastery Schwanberg (1706–1969)

Important Capuchins related to the province

• Benno Koglbauer von Mönichkirchen (1862–1925), monastery porter
• Fidelis von Sigmaringen (1578–1622), saint, martyr, lawyer
• Lawrence of Brindisi (1559–1619), saint, general minister, author, secret diplomat
• Stanislaus Saurbeck (1595–1647), pulpit speaker
• Markus von Aviano (1631–1699), papal legate during the siege of Vienna
• Thomas von Olera (1563–1631), Seliger, collector brother in Innsbruck, mystic
• Heinrich Suso Braun (1904–1977), radio preacher
• Wilhelm Egger (1940–2008), Professor of the New Testament, Bishop of Bozen-Brixen

Web links

• Website of the Capuchin Province Austria-South Tyrol

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2014 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. 
2. ↑ Ed. Capuchin Province of Brixen: 400 years of Capuchins in Meran - 400 anni Cappucini a Merano , Brixen 2017 p. 34
3. ↑ http://www.linkestmk.at/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Einf%C3%BChrung-Bregenzer-Kapuzinergruft1.pdf
4. ^ It: Tommaso da Olera