Raymundus Regondi

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Abbot Raymund Regondi (painting in Altenburg Abbey)
Altenburg Abbey, Lower Austria
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Raymundus Regondi (as Johannes Franciscus Regondi ; born June 13, 1652 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary; † March 22, 1715 in Vienna ) was abbot of Altenburg Abbey .

Life

Johannes Franciscus Regondi, first son of Giorgio Regondi and his wife Maria, came from a respected Milanese family and was born in an Italian-Swiss artist colony in the imperial quarry near Vienna , the capital of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . Emperor Ferdinand III. had raised the judge in the quarry, his court sculptor Pietro Maino Maderno , a subject of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey , to the nobility in 1649 . When the church was consecrated on July 30, 1652, there was a scandal . Maderno was removed from the office of judge and Ambrosius Regondi , the uncle of Johannes Franciscus, was appointed his successor. Since then, the family Regondi in will archive the University of Vienna and Altenburg as ennobled referred.

Education

In 1663, at the age of eleven, Johannes Franciscus Regondi began studying philosophy at the University of Vienna , which he completed on August 11, 1672 with a Magister Philosophiac .

In the same year he began the novitiate in Altenburg Abbey. He took his religious vows when he was named Raymundus on August 3, 1673. Then he went back to the University of Vienna to study theology . He was active in pastoral care and since 1678 lecturer of philosophy at the home school .

Abbot of Altenburg Abbey

Coat of arms of Raymundus Regondi

The abbot of the Altenburg monastery, Maurus Boxler, died in 1681. When the abbot was elected on October 26, 1681, Regondi received 20 of the 24 votes cast and was installed on the same day with special permission from the Vienna court chancellery. His coat of arms was a split shield , a black eagle above in blue, three silver stars below in blue. The lower part shows the family coat of arms of the Regondi (plague cross 1648, Regondi altar of the Kaisersteinbruch church ). His father Giorgio Regondi had died on January 10th. Raymundus Regondi looked after his mother and siblings.

He commissioned the Znojmo sculptor Martin Angerer to erect two altars for the church.

Pope Innocent XI. decreed a general tax for all spiritual goods in Hungary, Bohemia and Austria (the so-called Turkish tax ), which Bishop Sebastian von Passau passed on to Abbot Raymundus on August 30, 1683. The pen had to deliver the fourth part of an annual income to the responsible deputy in Passau. For November 1685 an amount of 12,566 guilders was given.

The friendship between Abbot Raymund and the great preacher Abraham a Sancta Clara is documented . He dedicated two of his works to the abbot: Grammatica religiosa (1691) and Judas der Erzschelm (1695).

Raymundus Regondi died on March 22nd, 1715 in Vienna and was buried in Altenburg. His painting can be seen in the pen ; unlike many other paintings, it survived the occupation . He was succeeded by Abbot Placidus Much .

His younger brothers had also chosen the spiritual path: Gotthard Regondi († 1728) in Altenburg Abbey and Marian Regondi in Lilienfeld Abbey .

Archival material

literature

The Regondi family. No. 2, 1990, pp. 8-11.
Raymundus Regondi. No. 12, 1991, p. 11 ff.
Italians in Kaisersteinbruch, using the example of the brothers Ambrosius and Giorgio Regondi. No. 12, 1991, pp. 6-13.
The archive of the University of Vienna. No. 31, 1994, pp. 17-20.
  • Ana Maria Altmann: The Regondi Altar. In: Festschrift for the praiseworthy church of St. Rochus and St. Sebastian in the Imperial Quarry on Leithaberg. No. 40, 1995, pp. 42-48.
  • Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Regondi, Raymundus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Altenburg Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaisersteinbruch
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1715
Place of death Vienna