Paul Augustin Mayer

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Paul Augustin Cardinal Mayer OSB , also Augustinus Mayer , (born May 23, 1911 in Altötting as Paul Mayer ; † April 30, 2010 in Rome ) was Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

family

Paul Mayer was one of three children of the royal Bavarian general Ludwig Mayer and his wife Meta geb. Hoeneß from Ulm. His uncle was the Württemberg state president Eugen Bolz .

Life

Mayer was born in Altötting and grew up in Laufen . From 1921 he attended the monastery seminar, later the grammar school of Metten Monastery . He entered the Benedictine monastery in Metten in 1930 and made his profession there on May 17, 1931 ( religious name Augustin). From 1932 to 1937 Mayer studied philosophy in Salzburg and Catholic theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo , the Benedictines' own college in Rome. He was ordained a priest on August 25, 1935 . In 1937 he was at Saint Anselm with a thesis on Clement of Alexandria to the doctor of theology doctorate . He was then a high school teacher in Metten.

1939 Mayer received a call to the professor for dogmatic theology at Benedictine College Sant'Anselmo in Rome and was from 1949 to 1966 there rector . As an apostolic visitor , he was also responsible for the seminaries in Switzerland from 1957 to 1959 .

Mayer was significantly involved in the preparations for the Second Vatican Council . He worked in particular in the Council Commission for Seminars and in the Commission for Catholic Education. During Vatican II he played a key role in the decree Optatam totius , which reorganized the formation of priests. This decree was the only council document to be approved by the assembly straight away.

In 1966 he was elected abbot of the Metten monastery ; the Abtsbenediktion he received on 10 December 1966. 1968 Mayer became the Abbot President of the Bavarian Congregation and 1971 Chairman of the Salzburg Äbtekonferenz selected. He had to resign from these offices in 1971 when Pope Paul VI. was called to Rome as secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life .

Pope Paul VI appointed Paul Augustin Mayer on January 6, 1972 Titular Archbishop of Satrianum and donated to him on 13 February of the same year in St. Peter's Basilica , the episcopal ordination ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Utrecht , Cardinal Bernard Jan Alfrink , and the Archbishop of Armagh , Cardinal William Conway . In 1984 Mayer became Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Sacraments.

On May 25, 1985, John Paul II accepted Mayer as a cardinal deacon with the title deaconry Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino in the college of cardinals (from January 29, 1996 cardinal priest ). Two days later he was appointed cardinal prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Order of the Sacraments . He held this office until July 1, 1988. On July 2, the Pope appointed him President of the newly established Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei , which should endeavor to reintegrate priests, seminarians and religious who were close to the traditionalist movement around Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and who opposed the reforms of the Second Vatican Council .

John Paul II resigned from office on July 1, 1991, shortly after Mayer's 80th birthday.

Mayer, who experienced nine pontificates, died on April 30, 2010 and was the oldest cardinal at the time of his death (since the death of Alfons Maria Stickler in 2007). Before the funeral mass, Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute to Mayer's contribution to the preparation of the Second Vatican Council. In St. Peter's Basilica, on May 3, 2010, a requiem was conducted by Cardinal Dean Angelo Sodano ; the blessing of the body took Pope Benedict XVI. personally. Augustin Mayer was buried on May 12, 2010 in Metten Abbey.

He was an honorary member of the Marian Men's Congregation of the Annunciation, founded in 1610 at the Bürgersaal in Munich.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches, Volume 102, A. Pustet, 1991
  2. ↑ "Ossservatore" honors Cardinal Mayer as confidant of the pope , Kath.web, 1 May 2010
  3. ^ Paul Augustin Cardinal Mayer, OSB † ( memento of March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), cardinalrating.com
  4. ↑ focus.de: Cardinal Augustin Mayer: The oldest cardinal is dead ; News from April 30, 2010
  5. ↑ cf. Focus announcement of April 30, 2010
  6. ↑ Article: Funeral of Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer in Metten on May 2, 2010 on medals, accessed online on May 2, 2010
  7. ^ The honorary members of the Marian Men's Congregation of the Annunciation at the Bürgersaal in Munich ( Memento of December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 7, 2012
predecessor Office successor
Corbinian Hofmeister Abbot of Metten
1966–1971 		Emmeram Geser
Albert Schmitt Chairman of the Salzburg Abbots' Conference
1968–1971 		Odilo Lechner
Johannes Maria Hoeck Abbot praeses of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation
1970–1971 		Odilo Lechner
Giuseppe Cardinal Casoria Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Order of the Sacraments
1985–1988 		Eduardo Cardinal Martinez Somalo
Commission newly established President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei
1988–1991 		Antonio Cardinal Innocenti
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Paul Augustin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, Paul (maiden name); Mayer, Augustine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chaplain and cardinal to the curia
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Altötting , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2010
Place of death Rome , Italy