Miguel de Molinos
Miguel de Molinos (born June 29, 1628 in Muniesa , † December 28, 1696 in Rome ) was the author of religious writings and spiritual guide. He was considered one of the great spiritual masters of the Golden Age in Spain.
Life
De Molinos was born in Muniesa in the Spanish province of Teruel in 1628 and died in Rome in 1696. He was ordained a priest in 1662 and lived in Rome from 1663. In 1675, Guía espiritual was first published in Rome. Up to 1681 the work had been translated from Spanish into various languages several times and printed more than twenty times in Rome, Venice and Palermo. Although the church had permission to print , the writing was rejected twelve years later with a papal bull and placed on the index of forbidden books . Molinos was arrested in 1685 and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment in a show trial. All books that were found were given to the fire. His followers were persecuted by the Inquisition, they were accused of quietism . After eleven years in prison, Molinos died in the Inquisition prison.
After his death in 1798 he was rehabilitated. The allegations against its programmatic principles have been invalidated. The indexing of his books was not lifted until the Second Vatican Council .
Rest prayer
Molino's Geistiger Wegweiser takes on church-approved motifs of Spanish mysticism in the tradition of Teresa of Avila as well as of John of the Cross . In this respect, the initial church permission is understandable. The radical change of opinion of the official church was less due to the mystical content. The clear, practical instructions, such as the recommended resting prayer , which delighted a large number of people, became a problem . The enthusiasm and preoccupation of many people with the resting prayer, however, diminished the influence of the official church and diminished the spiritual authority in general.
Fonts
- Guía espiritual , Rome 1675; Spiritual guide. Guia espiritual. The practice of the Christian rest prayer . Complete German original edition from 1732 ( Gottfried Arnold ) newly translated into a contemporary language with a short biography and an introduction by the editors; with a letter from 1676 from Molinos to Cardinal Pietro Matteo Petrucci (1639–1701), Bishop of Jesi ; AVALON-Verlag, Graz 2010, ISBN 978-3-902198-00-6 .
- Breveertrado de la Communión cotidiana
- Defensa de la contemplación
- God speaks to the soul , Leutesdorf, Johannes-Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-7794-1462-7 .
literature
- Walter Kasper (Hrsg.): Lexicon for theology and church . Volume 7. Freiburg / Basel / Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-451-22012-8 , p. 382.
- Peter Dyckhoff : Find the way: Spiritual guidance to Miguel de Molinos . 1st edition Don Bosco Verlag , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7698-1148-8 .
- Santiago Asensio Merino: En el centro de la nada. Venturas de Miguel de Molinos . Edited by Liber Factory, Madrid 2014. ISBN 978-84-9949-439-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spiritual guide. Graz 2010, see literature, from the editor's foreword, pages 1f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Molinos, Miguel de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish spiritual author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1628 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muniesa |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1696 |
| Place of death | Rome |