Marcellin Theeuwes

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Marcellin Theeuwes OCart (* as Jacobus "Jac" Johannes Maria Theeuwes on May 12, 1936 in Gilze en Rijen near Breda , Netherlands ; † January 2, 2019 in Méounes-lès-Montrieux ) was a Catholic religious .

Life

His real name is Jacobus "Jac" Johannes Maria Theeuwes, he was born as the youngest of seven brothers. In the then Cistercian Abbey of Marienkroon he got to know and appreciate the spirituality of the Carthusians through theological studies . On December 7, 1961, he joined the religious order of the French Carthusians in the Carthusian monastery of Sélignac , where he received the religious name Marcellinus . On June 25, 1966, after completing his philosophical and theological training, he was ordained a priest . He made his solemn profession on December 8th of the same year . In June 1973 he was elected prior in the Charterhouse of Mougères . In November 1977 he came to the Charterhouse in Montrieux in the Var region , which he headed as Prior from April 1983.

After the health-related resignation of the Order General Dom André Poisson , who died in 2005, he was elected Prior of the Great Charterhouse in June 1997 and thus the new Minister General of the Carthusian monks , the highest authority of the Carthusian Order. With his election he became the 72nd successor of St. Bruno and at the same time the fourth Dutchman in this office. In 2012 he asked the Pope for health reasons to release him from his position as superior, a request that Pope Benedict XVI. At the end of August 2012. François-Marie Velut was elected as his successor in September 2012 . After recovering from a long illness, Marcellin Theeuwes appeared again occasionally in public from 2015 onwards. a. at a colloquium in Taizé in July 2015.

literature

  • Presses de Taizé (ed.): L'actualité de la vocation monastique ou religieuse: Actes du colloque international, Taizé, 5-12 June 2015 , Taizé-Communauté (Saône-et-Loire) 2016 (in French, with an article by M. Theeuwes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de Dom Marcellin, ancien prieur général de l'Ordre des Chartreux la-croix.com, accessed on January 3, 2019
  2. ↑ Carthusian Order (O. Cart.) , Accessed April 18, 20147. [Here: Minister General - Fr. Marcellin Theeuwes, O. Cart. (1997.06 - 2012.08.22)]
  3. ↑ Catholic Press Agency: New General of the Carthusian Order elected. In: kath.net. September 23, 2012, accessed April 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Theeuwes, Marcellin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theeuwes, Jacobus Johannes Maria; Theeuwes, Jac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch religious, Minister General of the Carthusians
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Gilze en Rijen near Breda
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 2019
Place of death Méounes-lès-Montrieux