Notburga of Cologne

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Hll. Notburga and plectrudis, left wing of the altar of the Salvator Chapel in St. Maria im Kapitol, addition (19th century) to a late Gothic carved altar

According to tradition, Notburga († after 714 in Cologne ; also Notburgis or Noitburgis ) was a nun in Cologne. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Notburga is said to have been a niece of Pippin the Middle . After her uncle died, she accompanied Pippin's widow Plektrudis to the Marienstift in Cologne and entered there. When her relatives urged her to marry, she prayed fervently to God to take her as a virgin. Her prayer was answered and Notburga died shortly afterwards. When she was laid out there was a golden light around her head, and the man next to her woke up.

Adoration

The veneration of St. Notburga is first documented in 1172 in St. Maria im Kapitol . It was possibly based on a grave inscription that was found in the vicinity of the collegiate church. The life story of St. Notburga was written down in the 13th century. A chronicle from 1499 reports that her relics were in the Carthusian monastery in Koblenz at that time . This is also stated in a somewhat older testimony, a manuscript from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Notburga's feast day in the liturgy is October 31 .

literature

  • Vera Schauber, Hanns Michael Schindler: Saints and Patrons in the Course of the Year , Pattloch, Munich 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ romanische-kirchen-koeln.de
  2. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noitburgis_mainz_Hs_I_71.pdf .
personal data
SURNAME Notburga of Cologne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Notburgis; Noitburgis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nun, virgin and saint
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century or 8th century
DATE OF DEATH after 714
Place of death Cologne