Oranna (saint)
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Oranna (6th century) is a Catholic saint . Her feast day is September 15th . She is called in case of ear problems and dizziness. Oranna is considered the patroness of German Lorraine .
Legend
Oranna, daughter of the Irish-Scottish viceroy Frochard and Iveline, according to legend, evangelized like her brothers as part of a very early Irish -Scottish mission . Saint Wendelin is said to have been her brother. According to another source, Oranna was the daughter of a Duke of Lorraine who abandoned her because of her hearing loss. Oranna worked in the Moselle - Saar area , where she settled in the Berus area.
Oranna is said to have rescued and cured of his deafness a distinguished Franconian hunter who had lost his way in the Lorraine forests. When harassed by an admirer, the spring seed is said to have grown to maturity to hide it.
Together with her companion Cyrilla , she was buried in the church in the village of Eschweiler. Eschweiler went under in the Thirty Years' War, only the village church was spared, since then it has stood as a much-visited Oranna Chapel between the Saarland community of Berus, to which it belongs, and the Lorraine town of Berviller-en-Moselle , within sight of the German-French border.
Adoration
Shortly before 1914, the blind Theodor Lerand composed the first three stanzas of the Orannaliedes in Metz . The melody is from Michael Zurluth. The song was first sung in public in 1918. Hans Hausen wrote the fourth and fifth stanzas in 1944/1945. The sixth stanza is from Egon Winter.
Oranna has long been invoked as a matchmaker. The young women go to “Dorannen” (St. Oranna) and pray as follows:
- Heilisch Orann, bestow a man!
- Kä Rooder, kä Séffer, kä Schmésser wéll isch hann,
- käänen met em red beard,
- the sense of kääner gudden kind!
- Give mer en gudden man,
- datt aich long hann!
- ( Holy Orann ', give me a man!
- I don't want no redhead, no drunkard, no bully,
- none with a red beard
- they are not of a good kind!
- Give me a good man
- that I have it for a long time! )
St. Oranna (Berus)
The Oranna Chapel still exists today as a place of pilgrimage. For a long time the chapel was the parish church of the surrounding towns of Berus , Felsberg and Altforweiler . These places still celebrate the Oranna fair together on the 3rd Sunday in September. The solemn elevation of the bones of Oranna and Cyrilla on May 3, 1480 is documented; the skeletons lying upside down were lifted from the sarcophagus, clothed and buried again. On September 17, 1719 was the transfer of the relics held in the parish church of St. Martin in Berus. The French Revolution , as the saying goes , the relics survived intact in a crevice in the forest. The chapel was auctioned off and fell into disrepair, but was rebuilt from 1814 onwards. During the Second World War , the relics were evacuated: first to Lebach , then they were in an ice cream parlor in Saarlouis before they found a suitable place in the parish church of St. Ludwig . The chapel was badly damaged in World War II. The relics have been in the Oranna Chapel again since September 22, 1969. This also includes two iron crowns, which are supposed to heal the believer who wears them from ailments in the head and ear area. The crowns can also be found in Altforweiler's coat of arms . In front of the chapel is a small fountain with a bronze statue of the saint, whose water is also said to have healing properties.
St. Oranna (Lahr)
In addition to the pilgrimage chapel in Berus, there is another Oranna chapel in the diocese of Trier in the Hunsrück village of Lahr , which was built in 1784, probably in place of an older chapel. Here is the oldest known depiction of St. Oranna. The 45 centimeter high work, which is extremely interesting in terms of art history, dates from 1580/1590 and is probably a work from the Middle Rhine. The sandstone figure, torn in the middle, appears disproportionate and stocky, and the upper and lower parts show great qualitative differences. Also worth seeing are the early baroque wooden altar, probably from the Maria Engelport monastery , as well as the many wooden and sandstone figures. The church patroness is also commemorated in the coat of arms of the municipality of Lahr through the attributes of a cross staff and ear, while the saint is originally depicted with an open book in her left hand and the right index finger on her ear. This identifies her as a proclaimer of God's word who at the same time urges to listen. It is not known when, why and by whom the oranna worship came to Lahr. A connection to the veneration of Wendelinus in the neighboring village of Lieg is conceivable .
Maria Magdalena (Hierscheid)
St. Oranna is also commemorated in the Maria Magdalena chapel in the Hierscheid district of Eppelborn . The windows of the chapel depict various patron saints. From the surrounding area, these are the Holy. Wendelinus (spiral chapel and grave church in St. Wendel ), St. Ludwinus (founded the monastery Mettlach ), the Holy. Oranna (relics in the St. Oranna Chapel near Überherrn-Berus) and the blessed sister Blandine Merten , who was born in Düppenweiler / Saar. Two more of the lead-glazed windows show St. Florian and St. Michael .
St. Medardus (Neuforweiler)
In the parish church of St. Medardus in the Saarlouis district of Neuforweiler , just a few kilometers from Berus, there is a statue of St. Oranna with an ear in her left hand on the left side of the nave.
St. Martin (Menskirch) and Sainte-Barbe (Laumesfeld) in Lorraine, France
Statues of St. Oranna also bear witness to the veneration of the patroness in the former German Lorraine in the immediately neighboring Lorraine, for example in Menskirchen in the canton of Bouzonville and in Laumesfeld in the canton of Sierck-les-Bains , both in the Moselle department.
St Oran's Chapel
Today's church ruins on the Scottish Hebridean island of Orsay and the chapel of the same name on the island of Iona are probably named after St. Odhrán / Oran , a companion of St. Columban , not after St. Oranna.
literature
- Hermann Joseph Becker: About a saint and her village, commemorative sheets from the local and parish history about St. Oranna and Berus with photographs by Max Wentz, Saarbrücken 1928.
- Sophia Becker: Die Heilige Oranna (The Church in Her Saints, Church History Life Pictures for Teaching and Education, founded in 1927 by H. Faßbinder, revised and expanded, as well as enriched by numerous illustrations in four-color printing, edited by Jakob Szliska), illustrations by Anne Lang, Saarbrücken 1955.
- Erhard Dehnke: The former Berus mountain fortress and St. Oranna , in: Dieter Staerk (Ed.): Das Saarlandbuch , pp. 120–123, 5th edition, Saarbrücken 1990. ( ISBN 3-477-00066-8 )
- Manfred Neutzling: Oranna is worth a trip , in: Our homeland, No. 4, 1981, reprint in: Official notice of the municipality of Überherrn, No. 37, September 15, 1989, volume 26.
- Andreas Heinz: Witnesses of Faith and Advocates, The Saints of the Saarland, Saarbrücken 1980, pp. 43–48. (1st edition)
- Andreas Heinz: Heilige im Saarland, Saarbrücken 1991, pp. 77-89 (2nd revised and expanded edition), ISBN 3-925036-44-X
- Martin Persch : Oranna. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1228-1229.
- Norbert J. Pies: An art-historical treasure in Lahr (Hunsrück): The oldest statue of the Oranna , in: Hunsrücker Heimatblätter 149, year 52, August 2012, pp. 537-544.
- Norbert J. Pies: From the history of Lahr / Hunsrück, Volume 1, The Oranna Chapel, wayside crosses and wayside shrine , Erftstadt 2014. ( ISBN 978-3-927049-47-5 )
- Matthias Biegel: The veneration of the holy Oranna von Berus in liturgy and popular piety; Diploma thesis Trier 1984 (library of the episcopal seminary - shelf number: FC760 DiplA 403)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Braun, Edith and Treib, Evelyn: Necknames and Schimpfnames Saarland places ; Self-published by Dr. E. Braun; Saarbrücken-Dudweiler, 2007
- ↑ Oranna Elisabeth Dimmig: Inventory of art in public space, in: Art in public space, Saarland, Volume 3, Saarlouis district after 1945, essays and inventory, p. 177-S. 383, here p. 360.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oranna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oranda; Orande |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | catholic saints |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century |