Matthäus Vogel (Jesuit)
Matthäus Vogel , also Mathias Vogel (born November 15, 1695 in Waldershof , Upper Palatinate , † November 2, 1766 in Oggersheim ) was a German Jesuit priest , people's missionary and religious writer.
Life
Matthäus Vogel came from Waldershof in the Upper Palatinate. In 1714 he entered the Jesuit order, worked as a professor of the Humaniora and from 1728 as a people's missionary.
In 1720 the Electoral Palatinate Court was relocated from Heidelberg to Mannheim and the Jesuits founded a college there at the electoral palace . The college itself no longer exists today, but the associated Jesuit church (built from 1738).
Father Vogel came to Mannheim at the beginning of the 1720s and worked in the vicinity until his death. Most of his stay he lived in the local Jesuit college, of which he was also superior for three years. He particularly promoted the pilgrimage to a Loreto chapel , which was near the city, but on the left bank of the Rhine, in the village of Oggersheim. There, Count Palatine Joseph Karl von Pfalz-Sulzbach , Hereditary Prince of Palatinate-Sulzbach (1694–1729) had a pleasure palace built with a park from 1720 onwards. In 1729 he had a baroque Loreto chapel built in this park. In Loreto , Italy , he ordered a copy of the miraculous image there , a Black Madonna . However, the Count Palatine died soon afterwards and the palace complex became orphaned.
Elector Karl III. Philipp handed the Oggersheim Chapel over to the Mannheim Jesuits on March 1, 1733 for care. On behalf of the electorate , the image of grace donated by the House of Wittelsbach was transferred to the Loreto Chapel at the Annunciation (March 25) and the Madonna of Oggersheim was declared the patroness of the Palatinate. Elector Karl III. Philipp was one of the most ardent supporters of the Oggersheim pilgrimage, which he often distinguished by his personal presence. Father Matthäus Vogel took special care of the pilgrimage site and also wrote a pilgrimage booklet. Due to the princely patronage and many answers to prayer, the Loreto Chapel became more and more famous and the destination of pilgrimage processions from all over the area. With the generous financial support of the then lord of the castle, Count Palatine Friedrich Michael von Pfalz-Birkenfeld , son-in-law of the builder of the Oggersheim Chapel and father of the first Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph , the Jesuits were able to establish a permanent establishment in Oggersheim.
There moved Father Matthew Vogel in 1760 with another priest and a monk, became head of the pilgrimage and was active as a committed pastor until his death in 1766. In the monastery Oggersheim is still kept a contemporary paintings, in his people the Father bird catechesis shows . He is considered the spiritual founder of the Oggersheim Loreto pilgrimage, which still exists today . In the Ludwigshafen district, Matthäus-Vogel-Strasse is named after him; the Loreto Chapel was built over with a magnificent pilgrimage church in 1775 and integrated into it.
writer
During his time in the order, Matthäus Vogel was active as a writer. Home History valuable remained still be multiple Lay-booklet on the Loreto pilgrimage Oggersheim, from 1741. The best-known work is his 1764 published two-volume hagiography Saints of God on every day year , which in numerous, partly revised editions, until the 20th century, always reappeared.
Works (selection)
- Annual preparation for a holy death , Cologne, 1737; Complete scan of the book
- Catholic Catechism Or: Thorough instruction in the true catholic faith that alone makes soulfulness (catechism according to Petrus Canisius in several volumes), 1739; Complete scan of a tape
- Lauretan pilgrimage to the Loreto-Capell in Oggersheim , Mannheim, 1741; Find tip
- New, most promising white and manner of the toe-free day adoration of Saint Francisci Xaverii , Cologne 1746, complete scan of the book
- First and most noble Weiss the holy Mess-Opffer usefully and devoutly living in Mannheim, 1752 complete scan of the book
- Kurtzer concept of the most necessary prayer prayers of a Catholic Christian , Mannheim, 1755 Find tip
- Descriptions of the lives of the saints of God for every day of the year , 2 volumes, Mannheim 1764; First volume of an edition from 1852
- The school of innocence, wisdom and virtue ; Complete scan of an edition from 1828
literature
- Wolfgang Rappel: Vogel, Mathias (Matthäus). In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 807 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Martin Josef Mörschell: History of Oggersheim and the newly founded Minorite monastery there , 1844, page 35; Scan from the source
- Karl Anton Kreuter : Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the parish and pilgrimage church Oggersheim , Oggersheim, 1925
Web links
- Literature by and about Matthäus Vogel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Matthäus Vogel in the German Digital Library
- Entry in the portal thesaurus (with catalog raisonné)
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the settlement of the Jesuits in Mannheim, with mention of Father Vogel
- ↑ August Gutzer: Votive tablets from the Loreto chapel in the pilgrimage church in Oggersheim , Volume 13 of: Schriften des Diözesan-Archivs Speyer , p. 51
- ^ Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 62, Page 394, 1999; Excerpt from the source
- ^ Website of the Oggersheim monastery, with mention of Father Vogel and his portrait kept there
- ^ Sources and research on the history of the diocese and bishopric of Würzburg , Volumes 21-22, page 96, 1948; Excerpt from the source
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogel, Matthew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vogel, Mathias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Jesuit priest, people's missionary and religious writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1695 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waldershof , Upper Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1766 |
| Place of death | Oggersheim |