Ninian wince

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Ninian Winzet (also Ninian Vincet ; * 1518 in Renfrew (Scotland) ; † September 21, 1592 ) was the confessor of Maria Stuart and abbot of the Schottenkloster St. Jakob in Regensburg .

Gravestone for Ninian Winzet in the Schottenkirche Regensburg

Life

Ninian Winzet is said to have been the confessor of Queen Maria Stuart. He fled Scotland in 1562 and after several stops on the mainland came to Rome, where he was in 1577 by Pope Gregory XIII. was appointed abbot of the Schottenkloster Regensburg. Until his death in 1592, he ran the monastery with exemplary discipline. His epitaph is in St. Jakob , the church of the Schottenkloster, his last place of work.

literature

  • Seminary St. Wolfgang Regensburg (ed.): Scoti peregrini in Sankt Jakob. 800 years of Irish-Scottish culture in Regensburg; Exhibition in the Priesterseminar St. Wolfgang Regensburg, November 16, 2005 to February 2, 2006 , Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1775-9 , p. 20.
  • James King Hewison:  Pinch, Ninian . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 62:  Williamson - Worden. MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1900, pp 236 - 237 (English).
  • Mark Dilworth: Winzet, Ninian (1518 / 19–1592). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of September 2010
  • Oswald Hunter-Blair:  Ninian Winzet . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 15, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1912, pp. 659c-660a.
personal data
SURNAME Pinch, Ninian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincet, Ninian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish Benedictine priest
DATE OF BIRTH 1518
PLACE OF BIRTH Renfrew , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1592