Monulphus

Monulphus (also Monulf, Monulfus, Mondolf, Mondolphus ) († July 16, 599 in Maastricht ) was Bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht and is venerated as a saint .

Reliquary of Monulphus

Life

Monulphus was the first bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht to venerate his predecessor Servatius . The chapel over the grave of Servatius had meanwhile fallen into disrepair. Therefore, between 560 and 580, he had a church ( templum magnum ) built for Servatius in Maastricht in place of the later Servatius church. He had the bones ceremoniously transferred to the new church. There is the thesis that he moved the seat of the diocese from Tongeren to Maastricht. He is also credited with building a chapel in Liège and other buildings. After his death he was buried in the Servatius Church in Maastricht, which he had built, and his sarcophagus was placed in the middle of the church.

Monulphus was 1039 in the presence of Emperor Henry III. raised to saint. His feast day is July 16. Monulphus is usually worshiped together with his successor Gondulphus , especially in Aachen . Legend has it that they arrived there in 805 as skeletons for the inauguration of Aachen Cathedral , whereupon the Klappergasse there later received its name.

Individual evidence

↑ Frans Theuws: Maastricht as a center of power . In: Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages , Leiden u. a., 2001. p. 170.
↑ Maastricht . In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Vol. 19, Berlin 2001, p. 83; Knut Schäferdiek: Franca Rhiensis and the Rhenish Church. Marginal notes on early Franconian history . In: threshold time. Contributions to the history of Christianity in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . Berlin u. a., 1996, p. 337.
↑ Frans Theuws: Maastricht as a center of power . In: Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages , Leiden u. a., 2001, p. 177.
↑ Carina Brumme: From near and far - interpretations of areas where the find was spread using the example of the pilgrim signs in Aachen and Cologne . In: Pilgerzeichen - »Pilgerstraßen« , Tübingen, 2013, p. 128.
↑ Miracle for the consecration of the Aachen Minster - Or how the Klappergasse got its name ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. told by Tobias Koch @1@ 2

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Brief description

personal data
SURNAME	Monulphus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Monulf; Monulfus; Mondolf; Mondolphus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century
DATE OF DEATH	July 16, 599
Place of death	Maastricht

[1] Frans Theuws: Maastricht as a center of power . In: Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages , Leiden u. a., 2001. p. 170.

[2] Maastricht . In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Vol. 19, Berlin 2001, p. 83; Knut Schäferdiek: Franca Rhiensis and the Rhenish Church. Marginal notes on early Franconian history . In: threshold time. Contributions to the history of Christianity in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . Berlin u. a., 1996, p. 337.

[3] Frans Theuws: Maastricht as a center of power . In: Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages , Leiden u. a., 2001, p. 177.

[4] Carina Brumme: From near and far - interpretations of areas where the find was spread using the example of the pilgrim signs in Aachen and Cologne . In: Pilgerzeichen - »Pilgerstraßen« , Tübingen, 2013, p. 128.

[5] Miracle for the consecration of the Aachen Minster - Or how the Klappergasse got its name ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. told by Tobias Koch @1@ 2