Paulaner (medal)

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St. Franz von Paola, the founder of the Paulaner order

The Paulaner Order (Ordo Minimorum - Minimum Brothers, Minimiten, Paulaner , abbreviation OM or OMinim ) was founded by St. Francis of Paola . The religious community consists of religious priests and religious brothers .

The Paulans are not to be confused with the Paulins or the Barnabites , who are also referred to as Paulans with reference to the Apostle Paul .

history

The Congregation of Paulaner developed around the eremitical living Francis of Paola (1416-1507), who found many like-minded people that with him in Italian Cosenza , a monastery founded. Franz von Paola was given to a Franciscan monastery as a youth on the basis of a promise made by his parents, but did not join the order. He later settled as a hermit at a grotto near his hometown Paola , where his first brothers joined him. The members of this community called themselves “the inferior brothers” as a superlative of the Franciscans' own designation (the “minor brothers”) and lived according to stricter Franciscan rules in asceticism ; outsiders called them Paulaner .

In 1474 the order was approved by Pope Sixtus IV . The Paulaner spread particularly in France, Spain, Italy and South Bohemia. The Minimitinnen or Paulanerinnen emerged as a branch of the order for women . In 1501 a branch for lay people was founded, the third order of the minimites.

In South Bohemia they were mainly supported by the aristocratic Rosenberg family and built the Kuklov monastery there at the beginning of the 16th century . The Paulaner arrived in Bavaria in 1627. Some of the friars moved to the Munich monastery Neudeck ob der Au, which existed until 1799. Their main source of income was brewing beer, among other things. 1660 in Munich monastery with brewing rights confirmed that the origin of the Paulaner Brewery represents.

Since 2006, Father Francesco Marinelli, who succeeded Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini , has been the Order's Superior General .

Monasteries

The Order now has offices in Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. There are Paulaner women in Italy and Spain. The parent company is located in Paola , in Calabria .

See also list of Paulan monasteries .

Churches

literature

  • Norbert Backmund: The smaller orders in Bavaria and their monasteries up to secularization. Sisters of the Agelblume, Augustinian barefooters, Brothers of Mercy, Basilians, Birgittines, Elisabethinerinnen, English Misses, Hieronymites, Carthusians, Magdalenians, Oratorians, Paulans, Paulines, Piarists, Salesians, Servites, Solitarians, Theatines, Ursulines, Wilhelmite n. Poppe-Verlag, Wilhelmite n. Poppe-Verlag Windberg Abbey 1974, pp. 80-83.
  • Johannes Laschinger: Paulaner in Amberg . In: Tobias Appl, Manfred Knedlik (ed.): Upper Palatinate Monastery Landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 , pp. 276–285.

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