Maria Anna Lindmayr

Maria Anna Lindmayr

Maria Anna Josefa Lindmayr (born September 24, 1657 in Munich ; † December 6, 1726 there ) was a German Carmelite and mystic .

Life

Her father, Franz Lindmayr, was the valet of Duke Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus von Bayern-Leuchtenberg (1638–1705, 2nd son of Maximilian I ). Her mother gave birth to 14 other children in addition to Maria Anna. In her deeply religious family she was brought up in strict Catholic piety.

On November 29, 1672, she made a general confession. On July 16, 1687, she entered the Carmelite Order. From this point on she wore the scapular , but, much to her regret, had not yet been accepted into a monastery. According to her statements, she repeatedly asked to be admitted to various monasteries, but was repeatedly turned away or fell so seriously ill before entering that she had to refrain from doing so. It was not until October 1711 that she was admitted to the Carmelite convent in Munich, which had been founded only a month earlier (September 17, 1711). Initially still as a Terziarin , she made her profession on May 22nd, 1713 and on June 10th, 1713 her veil festival was celebrated. In March 1716 she was elected prioress for three years and confirmed in this office for another three years in 1719. When they wanted to elect her again in 1722, she refused, but was urged by her fellow sisters to at least become novice master . She finally gave in to this request.

According to her own statements, in order to get closer to God she scourged herself, among other things by depriving herself of food, wearing spiked chains, slapping rods or sleeping on nettles . According to two testimonies, Lindmayr is said to have carried the stigmata .

At the turn of the year 1725/26 she went blind. After a long illness, Lindmayr died peacefully on December 6, 1726 at the age of 69. On December 17th she was buried in the crypt of the monastery. A beatification process was initiated on January 10, 1727, but not completed. In December 1802 the Carmelite convent in Munich was secularized . During the subsequent clearance work, Lindmayr's bones were thrown onto a municipal garbage truck on the night of January 21, 1803, together with the remains of other deceased sisters, the whole thing was transported to a cemetery and everything was buried in a mass grave.

effect

Lindmayr experienced numerous visions, including the one that led to the construction of the Trinity Church in Munich . She predicted that Munich would be spared the devastation caused by the Austrian troops in the War of the Spanish Succession if the community built a church in honor of the Holy Trinity . Thereupon on July 17, 1704 the three estates , clergy , nobility and citizens vowed to establish the same. Although the war and the subsequent occupation brought some hardships for Munich, such as forced recruitment or high tax burdens, the city was neither besieged nor ravaged by the plague , unlike the rest of Bavaria. Only after numerous delays and admonitions was the vow redeemed on October 21, 1711 and the foundation stone for the church was laid. The consecration could take place on May 29, 1718. Before that, on January 8, 1715, the last occupation troops had left the city and Elector Max Emanuel was able to return from his exile.

literature

• Forstner, Thomas: The city would lie in the reason if the church did not stop ..., Maria Anna Lindmayr, the Trinity Church and the Carmelite Convent in Munich ; Publishing house Sankt Michaelsbund, Munich 2004; ISBN 3-920821-46-7
• Günther, Bonifatius: Maria Anna Josefa Lindmayr, prophet of God, helper of poor souls ; Miriam-Verlag, Jestetten 1976; ISBN 3-87449-103-X
• Günther, Bonifatius: Maria Anna Lindmayr, Something Right or Nothing ; Miriam-Verlag, Jestetten 1976; ISBN 3-87449-098-X
• Habsburg-Lothringen, Manuela by: Maria Anna Josepha Lindmayr, a Bavarian Teresa of Avila ; Pfauenhofverlag, Amberg 2003; ISBN 3-9804505-2-X
• Lindmayr, Maria Anna: My intercourse with poor souls, from the diary of a Carmelite woman ; Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 1999; ISBN 3-7171-0567-1
• P. Karl Hartl PA:; Maria Anna Lindmayr 1657-1726 her courageous struggle for a real diagnosis of her time And what now? Sermons and lectures on the memory of the Carmelite Lindmayr in the Trinity Church in Munich 2003-2005 * Maristenverlag & Druck Furth 2007 ISBN 978-3-931351-13-7
• Manfred Weitlauff :  Lindmayr, Maria Anna Josepha a Jesu. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 607 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Kurt Malisch: Lindmayr, Maria Anna (religious name Josepha of Jesus), Carmelite. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 482 ( digitized version ).
• Hans-Michael Körner (Ed.): Large Bavarian biographical encyclopedia . Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11730-2 , pp. 1187 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Anna Lindmayr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Conny Glogger: Calendar sheet in Bayern2Radio. Maria Anna Josepha Lindmayr. Bayerischer Rundfunk, September 24, 2004, archived from the original on November 25, 2005 ; Retrieved December 4, 2013 .