Nonnosus

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Gravestone in the church of the Carinthian Nonnosus von Molzbichl

Nonnosus or Nonosius (* around 500 ; † around 532 ) is a Christian saint whose vita has merged two people since the 12th century, that of the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of San Silvestre on Monte Soratte in northern Rome and that of Sanctus Nonnosus, deacon Ecclesiae Tiburniensis , deacon in Molzbichl in Upper Carinthia .

Crypt of the Freising Cathedral

The bones of Nonnosus from Carinthia are now kept in the crypt of the Freising Cathedral . According to popular belief, crawling under the coffin with the bones should help against back pain. Nonnosus is venerated as a patron against ailments and hardships in school. The Catholic memorial day of Nonnosus is September 2nd .

While an Italian cult of St. Nonnosus was unknown before the 17th century, there are several churches in Upper Carinthia in the area around Spittal an der Drau with a documented cult of Nonnosus. The churches are in Molzbichl , in St. Peter in Holz near Lendorf , in Berg im Drautal , in Hermagor in Gailtal and the German language island Bladen / Sappada . From St. Peter im Holz, for example, a letter of indulgence from 1470 has been preserved in which the bequest of sins is promised to all those who visit church at Christmas, on the third day of petition , to Peter and Paul , on the day of St. Nonnosus and on the day of the consecration of the church Donate for their restoration. Among the above-mentioned places of nonnosus veneration, Molzbichl, known as Münster (Munstiûre) in the 11th century and the seat of a monastery since the 8th century, has a special meaning. In the canteen of the church, the table part of the altar, a grave slab from the 6th century is walled in, which fits to a reliquary pit east of the early medieval high altar. This early Christian testimony, so far the only inscription in Austria from this period, mentions a deacon named Nonnosus , who died in 532. The Latin inscription reads: Hic re [quies] / ci (t) servus Χϱ [ι] (στου) / Nonnosus diac (onus) / qui vixit annos / p (lus) m (inus) CIII obiit / IIII Non (as) Septemb (res) / et deposit (us) est in / hunc loco XIII Kal (endas) Aug (ustas) indict (ione) XI / tertio (anno) post cons (ulatum) / Lampadi et Ores / tis v (irorum) c (larissimorum) Here lies the servant of Christ, the deacon Nonnosus, who lived for about 103 years. He died on September 2nd and was buried in this location on July 20th in the eleventh year of the indication, three years after the consulate of the famous men Lampadius and Orestes.

Korbinian and Nonnosushof; Former canons of St. Andrä

The strength of the cult apparently led to several reliquary translations in the early and high Middle Ages , which can be seen in the graves of Molzbichl, St. Peter in Holz and the translation to Freising under Bishop Nitker (1039–52). In 891, Freising was first owned by the East Franconian King Arnulf of Carinthia in the area surrounding the old Roman town of Teurnia- Tiburnia, in whose area Molzbichl and St. Peter are located.

From the 12th century onwards, the Carinthian Nonnous was increasingly equated with that of Soracte. This gave the saint a new, splendid hagiographic garment. In Carinthia, the deacon was raised to bishop and was given the name Nonosius , which ultimately led to confusion with Saint Anastasius . In Italy, the cult of Nonnosus experienced a new boom in the 17th century. The consequence of equating the two persons are identical dates of death of the Nonnosus from the monastery of S. Silvestro from Monte Soracte with that of the deacon in Molzbichl, whereby the hagiographical level of knowledge about the Carinthian Nonnosus is extraordinarily high, as name, age, date of death, first translation and the Degree of ordination are known.

One of the canons' houses on the Freisinger Domberg was named as Nonnosushof after the Nonnosus from Carinthia.

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References and comments

  1. ^ Collective archive of the history association for Carinthia Faz. 82 in the Carinthian State Archives , cited. n. Johannes Grabmayer: Popular belief and popular piety in late medieval Carinthia. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-205-05550-0 , p. 138.
  2. ↑ Cf. Karl Amon: Hagiographic remarks on the Nonnosus inscription in Molzbichl . In: History Association for Carinthia (ed.): Carinthia I. Journal for historical regional studies of Carinthia. 1990 / 180th year. Pp. 221-234.

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SURNAME Nonnosus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nonnosius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine abbot and Christian saint
DATE OF BIRTH around 500
DATE OF DEATH at 532
Place of death Mount Soratte