Mathias Joseph Prior

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Mathias Joseph Prior (born December 22, 1870 in Gelsdorf , today Grafschaft , † April 12, 1946 in Dillingen / Saar ) was a German Catholic theologian.

Life

Mathias Joseph Prior was born as the son of the building contractor Mathias Joseph Prior and his wife Agnes (née Pabst) on December 22, 1870 in Gelsdorf and was baptized on December 23, 1870 in the Gelsdorf parish church of St. Walburga. After attending the Progymnasium in Rheinbach in the years 1887–1888, Prior entered the Episcopal Konvikt in Trier . In Trier he attended the Royal Prussian Gymnasium from 1888 to 1893 .

After graduating from high school, Prior entered the Collegium Germanicum in Rome in 1893 , where he studied philosophy and theology at the Gregorian . Here he did his doctorate in Dr. phil et. theol. On October 28, 1898, Prior was ordained a priest by Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi in San Ignazio in Rome.

He took up his position as chaplain in St. Martin in Neunkirchen in 1899 . The Trier bishop Michael Felix Korum appointed Prior to be his secret secretary on October 4, 1900. On October 27, 1907, Prior was appointed pastor of Dillingen. He held this office until 1946 (1907–1913 pastor of St. Johann, 1913–1946 pastor of the Holy Sacrament).

Prior predecessor, Pastor Johann Peter Hillen (1869-1907), had already for the construction of a larger church for Dillingen renowned architects Wilhelm Hector commissioned a design drawing, as in the course of the industrial boom of the community the previous parish church of St. John in Dillingen for the immensely increased population had become too small. Despite Hector's great experience, Prior withdrew the architect from the contract. After the founding of a church building association on November 17, 1907, Prior transferred the planning for the construction of a representative church in 1908 to the 37-year-old architect Peter Marx from Trier.

Peter Marx's plans, like those of Hector, were also based on Romanesque forms. The new church on what was then the northern edge of the city, the so-called Saardom , was built between 1910 and 1913. On May 28, 1911, Bishop Michael Felix Korum solemnly laid the foundation stone. Prior had had the stone fetched from the Domitilla catacombs in Rome. The name Ecclesia catholica Parochiali Sacratissimi Sacramenti Dioecesis Treverensis ("Catholic Parish Church of the Most Holy Sacrament in the Diocese of Trier") is to be seen against the background of the Eucharistic movement of Pope Pius X at that time. In keeping with the church's name, Prior had thematically adapted the original artistic equipment to the sacrament of the Eucharist.

On April 25, 1913, the building of the church was consecrated by Bishop Michael Felix Korum. At the same time, Prior had the former parish church of St. Johann renovated and rededicated as the Dillingens cemetery chapel. On October 29, 1930, Prior was appointed Definitor of Dillingen's deanery, and on October 27, 1932, he celebrated his silver jubilee in Dillingen.

Mathias Prior's grave in the western transept of the Saardome

During the first evacuation of Dillingen in 1939/40 as a result of the Second World War , Prior moved to his brother Joseph in Kaisersesch . In the war winter of 1944/45 he fell seriously ill and had to undergo an operation in the Dillingen hospital in February 1945. Since November 1944 he was in the St. Nikolaus Hospital in Wallerfangen due to illness . As a result of the Allied invasion of northern France on June 6, 1944, the front pushed towards Dillingen from the west from mid-November and the community was severely destroyed, which also affected the Saardom. Thereupon a second evacuation of the population was ordered on November 20, 1944, which was carried out at the beginning of December 1944. During this second evacuation, Prior was brought to Hermeskeil in the Hunsrück. On January 25, 1946, he was transported to the St. Nikolaus Hospital in Wallerfangen for treatment, where he renounced the Dillingen parish on January 31, 1946.

After his death on April 12, 1946 in Dillingen, he was buried in the Saardom on April 16, 1946 at his request. A burial in the entrance area of ​​the church, as Prior had requested, could not take place due to the massive tower foundations. Therefore, Prior was buried in the left transept. In 1950, a tumba facing the altar with a high wall cross made of black granite was erected over Prior's grave.

Honors

The Dr.-Prior-Straße (formerly Pfarrstraße since 1925, Blücherstraße since 1933, Pfarrstraße since 1945) in Dillingen, which runs past the Saardom, was named in his honor in 1949.

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  • Dillingen parish archive
  • Diocesan Archives Trier

literature

  • Oranna Dimmig u. Michaela Mazurkiewicz-Wonn: Kunstort Saardom Dillingen / Saar, (series Kunstlexikon Saar, Kunstort, publisher Jo Enzweiler), Saarbrücken 2012.
  • Handbook of the Diocese of Trier, 20th edition, Trier 1952, p. 279.
  • Katholisches Bildungswerk Dillingen-Nalbach eV (Ed.): 100 years of Saardom, Holy Sacrament Dillingen, 1000 years of the Dillingen parish, commemorative publication for the anniversary of the church consecration on April 25, 2013, Dillingen 2012.
  • Catholic Parish Office Hl. Sacrament Dillingen (Ed.): Holy Sacrament Dillingen / Saar, church chronicle on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Catholic parish church Holy Sacrament, Dillingen / Saar, on November 17, 1963, Dillingen 1963.
  • Manfred Kostka: Holy Sacrament Dillingen / Saar, Saardom, Dillingen / Saar 1987.
  • Manfred Kostka: Saardom Dillingen, 2nd, expanded and improved edition, Dillingen / Saar 1997.
  • Art association Dillingen in the old castle, Dillingen / Saar (Ed.): Art guide Dillingen / Saar. Dillingen / Saar 1999, pp. 18-19.
  • Aloys Lehnert: History of the City of Dillingen / Saar, Dillingen / Saar 1968.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002.
  • Matthias Prior: The new church in Dillingen / Saar, its preparation and completion, Trier 1913.
  • Franz Ronig: The Church of the 19th Century in the Diocese of Trier, in: Art of the 19th Century in the Rhineland, Vol. I, Düsseldorf 1980, p. 263f.
  • 1000 years of the parish of Dillingen, 75 years of the Saardom Holy Sacrament, in: Saarbrücker Zeitung No. 304, Saarlouis edition, December 31, 1988.
  • L. Sudbrack et al. A. Jakob (Ed.): The Catholic Saarland, Heimat und Kirche, Saarbrücken 1954–1956, II / III, 1954, pp. 27f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katholisches Bildungswerk Dillingen-Nalbach eV (Ed.): 100 years of Saardom, Holy Sacrament Dillingen, 1000 years of the Dillingen parish, commemorative publication for the anniversary of the church consecration on April 25, 2013, Dillingen 2012, p. 119.
  2. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 217-218, 446, 612-613.
  3. ↑ Manfred Kostka: Construction and description of the Holy Sacrament Church, in: Katholisches Bildungswerk Dillingen-Nalbach eV (Hrsg.): 100 years Saardom, Holy Sacrament Dillingen, 1000 years Dillingen parish, commemorative publication on the anniversary of the church consecration on April 25, 2013, Dillingen 2012, pp. 83-116.
  4. ^ Lehnert, Aloys: Festschrift on the occasion of the granting of city rights to the municipality of Dillingen-Saar on September 1, 1949, Dillingen / Saar 1949, p. 21.
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Alois Scherer: "Streets and squares in Dillingen, Pachten, Diefflen - cause and meaning of their naming", published by the Realschule Dillingen and the city of Dillingen, Nalbach 1990 p. 20th
personal data
SURNAME Prior, Mathias Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prior, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsdorf (county)
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1946
Place of death Dillingen / Saar