Maria van Oisterwijk

Maria van Oisterwijk , actually Maria van Hout or Maria van Houte ("from wood"), Latinized Maria Lignana , (* around 1470 probably in Udenhout (North Brabant); † September 30, 1547 in Cologne ) was a Dutch mystic and beguines - Superior of the Order.

life and work

Maria van Oisterwijk was born around 1470, probably in the village of Udenhout in North Brabant. Little is known about their family origins. Van Oisterwijk was superior of the Bethlehem Beguinage near Oisterwijk . The Cologne Carthusian Gerard Kalckbrenner visited van Oisterwijk in 1531. He was impressed by her mystical writings and took them to Cologne for publication under the title The Right Way . In 1532 Kalckbrenner published another work by Oisterwijk, Das Paradies . With Novem simplicitatis gradus (Nine Levels of Simplicity), Oisterwijk wrote a third work and this in Latin, which, however, is lost, except for possible quotations in writings from her circle.

She moved to Cologne in 1545 and spent the last years of her life there in poor health. Despite her poor health, she received famous theologians such as the Jesuit Petrus Canisius . Together with him she founded the first Jesuit community in Cologne shortly before her death.

Van Oisterwijk was held in high regard as a “spiritual mother” by the Carthusians and the Jesuits . For the Carthusians she was primarily a spiritual model. The Cologne Jesuits venerated them as "mater nostra", Petrus Canisius even called them "mater fidissima". Maria van Oisterwijk died in Cologne in September 1547. She was buried in the high choir of the Marien Chapel in the Carthusian Church in Cologne.

Printed fonts

The right wech zo d'Euangelischer Volkomenheit / through eynen enlighten frundt gotz / still in leuen / feud vp the articules of the holy louuens vnd vp dat Pater noster ("The right way to perfection according to the gospel, through an enlightened friend of God - still alive - added to the articles of the holy faith [creed] and to the Our Father ”). Cologne (Melchior von Neuss) 1531

Dat Paradys der lieffhavender Sielen / full intimate oiffingen des Geistz / in considerations vnd gebetz wyse / van dem leuen vnd lyden vnsers heren / van dem hilgen sacrament vnd van gotlicher lieffden in dryerley wyse (near the minsch Höger vnd Höger an der Sielen tzo nympt) deylt ("The paradise of the loving soul, full of intimate revelations of the spirit, in contemplation and in prayer form, of the life and suffering of our Lord, of the holy sacrament and of divine love threefold (after man grows higher and higher in the soul) divided"). Cologne (Johann Soter) 1532 ( digitized version )

swell

Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church (LThK) . Maria v. Oisterwijk. Second, completely revised edition 1957–1968 (special edition 1986). tape 7 . Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1957, ISBN 3-451-20756-7 , p. 42 .
Kees Kuiken (Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland): Hout, Maria van (approx. 1470–1547). Retrieved August 25, 2019 (Dutch).

Web links

Literature by and about Maria von Oisterwijk and Maria van Houte in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Maria (von Oisterwijk) (niederdeutsche-literatur.de)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Kees Kuiken. Maria van Oisterwijk.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e LThK II. Maria van Oosterwijk.

personal data
SURNAME	Oisterwijk, Maria van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hout, Maria van; Houte, Maria van; Lignana, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch mystic and superior
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1470
PLACE OF BIRTH	uncertain: Udenhout (North Brabant)
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 1547
Place of death	Cologne

[:1-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Kees Kuiken. Maria van Oisterwijk.

[:0-2] LThK II. Maria van Oosterwijk.