Saarlouis brotherhoods

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Church of St. Ludwig with Marienbrunnen on the Great Market in Saarlouis

The Saarlouis brotherhoods exist / existed in Saarlouis in Saarland .

As part of the parish life of the Catholic Saarlouis parish church St. Ludwig, there were several historical religious brotherhoods in the fortress town, whose activities are documented in brotherhood books in the parish archives of St. Ludwig (today in the Trier diocese archive).

Religious brotherhoods

Brotherhood of the Most Holy Sacrament

The Saarlouis "Brotherhood of the Most Holy Sacrament" was founded in 1692 and was supported by a bull by Pope Innocent XII. approved:

“In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Bull of our Most Holy Father of Pope Innocentii of the XII. For the establishment of the fraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar In the parish churches of the Royal City of Sarluis. For the eternal memory of the descendants; After we have been teaching / how we have been told; like that in the parish church of Sarluis in the Ertzbischthumb Trier the believers of both male and female sex / and of all kinds of stands / art / and craftsmen strongly demand to be united with the bond of a holy society and fraternity / and to specialize in consecration Service of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar; which they show through many of the devotion and love exercises / when they perform / show externally; We have obtained such a holy preparation out of all our capacities / and to give the means / so that it may be increased from day to day. Permit and allow us to give our authority to his holy apostoles Peter and Paul and grant all believers / male and female a perfect indulgence for all their sins on whom they have confessed / and communicated. Grant the same to all believers of the male and female sex / so be in this brotherhood / or after this they will be incorporated into perfect indulgence at the end of their life / when they truly repented / confessed / and the holy Viaticum or food will have received / or when there is no means by hand / that one or the other have been uttered / the most holy name of Jesus with devotion / and contrite heart with the mouth or alone with the heart / bestow also mercifully in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ the same perfect indulgence for all sins Melted believers Brothers and sisters once in the year on the year-day of Melted Fraternity ... confessed, communicated and once said church in Sarluis / from the first Vespers ... to the rising of the suns on the other day on the day of the Brotherhood ... Given in Rome to St. Maria Major under the seal of the fisherman the 30th June 1692. And our Pope's humbug's first year. "

Scapular Brotherhood

The Saarlouis Scapular Brotherhood was founded in 1718. The brotherhood was generally founded in Cambridge in 1251 by the English monk Simon Stock after a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary . In this vision the Madonna had presented him with a scapular that later became part of the Carmelite habit . In the vision she also made a promise to Simon Stock that everyone who wore the scapular would be under her heavenly protection. Members of other orders and finally lay people then asked to be allowed to wear such a scapular. As a result, so-called scapular brotherhoods for lay people were founded in Carmelite monasteries, who wore the so-called brown scapular . All members of a Scapular Brotherhood feel connected to the Blessed Mother in a special way and, according to a St. Simon Stock given promise to be freed from purgatory on the first Saturday after her earthly death . Special indulgences were also granted for the members of the Saarlouis Scapular Brotherhood. The members of the Saarlouis Scapular Brotherhood were obliged to take part in the solemn sacrament processions. The processions took place on two Sundays a month in connection with high masses and were connected with a total indulgence. The main festival of the Saarlouis Scapular Brotherhood was June 16, the day on which the Mother of God Simon Stock is said to have appeared in Cambridge. The Saarlouis Brotherhood celebrated the feast day with a procession around the Great Market. Solemn expositions of the host in the monstrance were held at the processions as well as at the main festival , with the fraternity members holding a sacramental honor guard. Our own brotherhood services were always held in the Chapel of Our Lady of St. Ludwig. The board of directors of the Saarlouis Scapular Brotherhood was elected on the Sunday after the main festival of the religious association.

Sebastianus Brotherhood

The Sebastianus Brotherhood, which was founded in Wallerfangen at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, was moved from Wallerfangen to Saarlouis in 1682 and was confirmed in its old privileges by royal decree of Louis XIV of October 20, 1708. The brotherhood took care of fire protection in the fortress town and acted as an honor guard at religious festivities in red uniforms with the sign of the cross and the image of the brotherhood patron. The brotherhood patron, St. Sebastian , was invoked against the plague and other epidemics . The founding of the brotherhood is probably connected with the outbreak of the plague in Lorraine at the beginning of the Thirty Years War.

Brotherhood of the Third Order of St. Francis

The Saarlouis " Brotherhood of the Third Order of St. Francis " already existed in 1706. The founding of the brotherhood could be in connection with the membership of the Saarlouis parish and city patron, St. Louis IX. of France, standing in the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi . In general, the Third Order lay movement was founded in the 13th century.

Founding of brotherhoods and popular missions in the 19th century

St. Ludwig (Saarlouis), outside of the church, apse, cross on Dechant-Unkel-Platz, original course of Friedensstrasse with the old rectory

In the wake of the general Marian piety of the 19th century, a "Brotherhood of the Immaculate Heart of Mary" was founded in Saarlouis on June 15, 1845. On the occasion of the founding of the brotherhood, Bishop Wilhelm Arnoldi of Trier came to Saarlouis and gave a consecration speech. In the same year a St. Joseph's trade union brotherhood was founded in St. Ludwig to promote church and moral life. Both masters and journeymen who did not "lead notoriously unchristian conduct" could join the new brotherhood.

The popular mission of the Redemptorist Fathers from Teterchen in Lorraine, which was held from June 14th to June 6th, 1851 and concluded with a large procession of the Catholic population through the city, brought a noticeable revitalization of Catholic life . The guest of honor was again Bishop Arnoldi from Trier. Behind the church, the bishop blessed the newly erected mission cross before the entire city was illuminated at night. To thank the Lorraine Redemptorist Fathers, the parish gave them a silver chalice that had been commissioned from a Parisian goldsmith. The chalice bore the city arms of Saarlouis with the inscription "In memory of the holy mission of the Redemptorist Fathers from Teterchen in 1851 - The grateful citizens of Saarlouis."

During this time, the parish was increasingly given extensive pious foundations. Catholic associations, people's missions and foundations with their resurgence of intense piety and ecclesiasticality must be in connection with the so-called Cologne turmoil , a dispute between the Protestant Kingdom of Prussia and Rhenish Catholicism, as well as with the socio-political developments of Vormärz in the run-up to the revolution of 1848/49 be understood. The confessional conflict intensified in the Kulturkampf in the 1870s and contributed to the emergence of a political Catholicism .

literature

  • Severin Delges: History of the Catholic parish St. Ludwig in Saarlouis . Saarlouis-Lisdorf 1931, extension by Heinrich Unkel in 1952, extension by a third part by Marga Blasius in 1985.
  • Oranna Elisabeth Dimmig: Saarlouis Stadt und Stern / Sarrelouis - Ville et Étoile , translation into French: Anne-Marie Werner, ed. v. Roland Henz and Jo Enzweiler Saarbrücken 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Severin Delges: history of the Catholic Parish of St. Louis in Saarlouis . Saarlouis-Lisdorf 1931, extension by Heinrich Unkel in 1952, extension by a third part by Marga Blasius in 1985 Part I, pp. 41–42.
  2. ↑ Severin Delges: history of the Catholic Parish of St. Louis in Saarlouis . Saarlouis-Lisdorf 1931, extension by Heinrich Unkel in 1952, extension by a third part by Marga Blasius in 1985 Part I, pp. 43–44; Thomas Berger: Simon Stock , in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , Volume 10, Herzberg 1995, Col. 417-418.
  3. ↑ Severin Delges: history of the Catholic Parish of St. Louis in Saarlouis . Saarlouis-Lisdorf 1931, extension by Heinrich Unkel in 1952, extension by a third part by Marga Blasius in 1985 Part I, pp. 43-44.
  4. ↑ Severin Delges: history of the Catholic Parish of St. Louis in Saarlouis . Saarlouis-Lisdorf 1931, extension by Heinrich Unkel in 1952, extension by a third part by Marga Blasius in 1985 Part I, pp. 44–45.
  5. ↑ Severin Delges: history of the Catholic Parish of St. Louis in Saarlouis . Saarlouis-Lisdorf 1931, extension to include a second part by Heinrich Unkel in 1952, extension to include a third part by Marga Blasius in 1985, pp. 93-95.

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