Mission cross
A mission cross commemorates the popular missions that took place in a parish. The year of the people's mission weeks are often affixed to the crosses, a common inscription is “Save your soul!” The crosses are always on the parish church or in the village or in the field.
Small groups of two or three fathers of the Jesuit order and other religious communities moved from parish to parish, increasingly since the time of the Counter Reformation . They often stayed for several weeks on the “people's mission” with the aim of “renewing and converting the Christian people”, as the statutes of the Diocese of Aachen from 1954 express. The fathers work through numerous events, masses, sermons - previously separate for women and men, single people, young people, children -, worship hours, confessional talks, house calls and other activities.
List of missionary crosses
- Mission Cross Beningsfeld , Refrath
- Mission Cross Giesenkirchen , Mönchengladbach
- Mission cross rattles , Mönchengladbach
- Mission Cross Bötzlöh , Viersen
- Mission Cross Heimer , Viersen
- Mission Cross Ummer , Viersen
- Mission Cross (Lauterbourg) , Alsace
- Mission Cross Nörvenich
source
- Karl Heinz Türk : The mission cross at the Nörvenich parish church , published by the Nörvenich community in 2007.
