Paschasius Hermann Rettler
Paschasius Hermann Rettler OFM , Portuguese: Dom Frei Pascásio Rettler , (born January 26, 1915 in Merklinde , today in Castrop-Rauxel ; † September 16, 2004 in Sorocaba , Brazil ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Bacabal .
Life
Hermann Rettler was the fourth of eight children to the school principal and organist Ferdinand Rettler from Müschede and Louise Rettler (née Hovemann) in Merklinde. He attended elementary school in Merklinde and high school in Castrop.
On April 25, 1933, Hermann Rettler entered the Franciscan Seminary Kloster Garnstock in Baelen (Belgium) and took the religious name Paschasius . The seminar in Garnstock was specially designed for the training of future Brazil missionaries. After being sent out as a missionary and arriving in Brazil on May 3, 1935, he studied at the seminary in Rio Negro until 1936 . On December 19, 1936, he entered the novitiate in Rodeio ( Santa Catarina ). On December 20, 1937, he took the first religious vows and on December 20, 1940, the solemn vows. In 1938 he began further studies in philosophy , first in Rodeio and from 1939 to 1940 in Curitiba . From 1940 to 1943 he studied theology in Petrópolis .
Rettler was ordained a deacon on November 30, 1941 in Petrópolis and a priest on November 29, 1942 for his religious community. His first places of activity were from 1943 to 1947 as chaplain in Forquilhinha (Santa Caterina), in 1948 as rector at his seminary and in 1949 as parish vicar in Duque de Caxias . He then worked in the People's Mission in Florianópolis until 1956 . He then taught as a professor of moral theology in Petrópolis (1957–1959) and pastoral theology (1960–1965) in Rio de Janeiro . From mid-1966 until his appointment as bishop, he was the provincial vicar of his order in São Paulo .
Pope Paul VI appointed him on July 24, 1968 as the first bishop of the newly established diocese of Bacabal on June 22, 1968 . The episcopal ordination received his Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Archbishop of his native diocese of Paderborn , on 12 September 1968 in Merklinde; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Tubarão , Anselmo Pietrulla OFM, and the Auxiliary Bishop in São Paulo and later Curia Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves OP .
On December 1, 1989, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation shortly before reaching the canonical age limit. Until 2003 he worked in a facility for lepers in Pirapitingüi near São Paulo .
Rettler was buried in Sorocaba. The Old Archbishop of São Paulo, Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns , celebrated the Requiem in concelebration a . a. with the Bishop of Bacabal, José Belisário da Silva , and the Coadjutor Bishop of Franca , Caetano Ferrari .
Episcopal coat of arms and motto
He chose the St. Andrew's Cross from his hometown Castrop-Rauxel , topped with a Babassu palm , as his bishop's coat of arms . For the motto he chose the mission command of Jesus: IDE E ENSINAI (Portuguese), euntes ergo docete omnes gentes (Latin): “Go and teach all peoples!” ( Mt 28:19 EU )
Honors
- 1993: Honorary citizen of the city of Castrop-Rauxel
Web links
- Entry on Paschasius Hermann Rettler on catholic-hierarchy.org
- On the 100th birthday of Dom Pascásio Rettler. franziskaner.de
- Dom Frei Pascásio Rettler, OFM. franciscanos.org.br
- True following of Christ. erzbistum-paderborn.de; Retrieved January 26, 2014
- Images from Rettler on Flickr
Footnotes
- ^ Jürgen Domjahn, Michael Fritsch, Heinz Kurtenbach: The long way from Merklinde to Sorocaba. Paschasius Hermann Rettler (1915 to 2014) . Castrop-Rauxel 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rettler, Paschasius Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rettler, Paschasius Hermann OFM |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clergyman, Bishop of Bacabal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merklinde |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 2004 |
| Place of death | Sorocaba , Brazil |