Minor regular clerics

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The minor regular clerics ( Latin : Clerici regulares minores , Italian: Chierici Regolari Minori , order abbreviation : CRM ) are a religious community of regular clerics in the Roman Catholic Church . The fathers are also called Mariana Islands or Caracciolanes ; in Italy they are called Padri Caracciolini , in English-speaking countries Adorno Fathers . Since 1972 there has also been a branch in Germany, namely in Münster.

The Latin motto of the congregation is: Ad Maiorem Resurgentis Gloriam (German: For the greater honor of the resurrected ). One of its peculiarities is that the members hold eternal adoration and, in addition to the general three vows, take a fourth vow in which they vow not to seek honors. Raffaele Mandolesi CRM has been the General Superior of the Order since 2006.

history

The congregation was founded in Naples in 1588 by Agostino Adorno , Fabrizio Caracciolo and St. Francesco Caracciolo and confirmed papally in 1588, 1591 and 1605. It was created in the course of the Counter Reformation . The order spread mainly in the Kingdom of Naples as well as in Spain and Portugal . During its greatest expansion, it comprised a total of 60 monasteries in four provinces. 1678 converted during a trip to Italy a extramarital son of the Protestant Pomeranian Duke Ernst Bogislaw of Croy , Ernst von Croyengreiff, in Rome to Catholicism and entered 1679 as a novice in the Order to be trained to the Catholic priest.

The fathers worked primarily in missions, as well as in prison chaplaincy and nursing. Some of their missionaries made it to China in the first half of the 18th century. Father Nicola Tomacelli CRM worked at the Emperor's court in Beijing .

In the Age of Enlightenment , the order experienced a decline. The number of fathers fell, religious houses had to be closed and religious activities restricted. At the beginning of the 19th century, apart from a few houses and members, the religious community had melted. In 1884 the minor regional clergy had to leave Portugal and in 1885 Spain.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Pope Benedict XV promoted. the reconstruction of the minor regional clergy in Italy. Homes were established in the United States in the 1930s, and in Africa, India, and the Philippines in the second half of the 20th century.

Stations

  • With the approval and naming of the order by Pope Sixtus V on July 1, 1588, Agostino Adorno was given the leadership of the order.
  • Agostino Adorno died on September 29, 1591. Franz von Caracciolo was his successor.
  • In 1592 Pope Clement VIII confirmed the religious order and its rules.
  • After a number of new religious houses had been built in Spain and Italy around 1600, it was necessary to set up a mother house for the growing community; this was opened on June 11, 1606 in Rome.
  • Franz von Caracciolo died on June 4, 1608 at the age of 45 in Agnone . Fabrizio Caracciolo was his successor - as the third superior general.
  • On October 8, 1612, Pope Paul V confirmed the constitutions of the order drawn up by Fabrizio Caracciolo.
  • Fabrizio Caracciolo, the third co-founder, died on May 25, 1615 at the age of 60.
  • On May 24, 1807, Francesco Caracciolo was canonized by Pope Pius VII .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon for Theology and Church , 2nd ed., Vol. 8: Patron bis Rudolf , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1936, Sp. 726–727.
  2. ↑ Ordine dei Chierici Regolari Minori - Germania ( Memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian), accessed on August 30, 2014.
  3. ^ Fides News Service, June 14, 2008.
  4. ↑ Lexicon for Theology and Church , 2nd ed., Vol. 2: Bartolomäus bis Colonna . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1931, Col. 748-749.
  5. ^ RG Tiedemann: Reference guide to Christian missionary societies in China. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century . Sharpe, Armonk 2009. ISBN 978-0-7656-1808-5 . P. 10.
  6. ↑ Overview of religious houses worldwide: Missione Caracciolina ( Memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian), accessed on August 30, 2014.