Sabina Schneider

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Sabina Schneider or sister Josepha Meinrada (born November 1, 1831 in Sinzheim , † December 1891 in Ofteringen ) was a nun of the Benedictines and founder of the Ofteringen monastery .

Life

She first entered the Neusatz monastery near Egg . Here, however, she could not develop her ideas, so she tried to get admission to the Einsiedeln convent, but she did not succeed. So she first learned how to make devotional objects from Regina Zehnder. Then she entered the Au monastery near Einsiedeln . Her wish had already been to found her own monastery in Neusatz “For Eternal Adoration”. She saw this moving into the realm of feasibility after her profession in 1859, when she set off on a trip to Baden . Here, on the morning of July 20, 1859, she found the place she asked for in her travelogue of June 18:... the Divine Mother and my holy Guardian Angel to accompany and guide me on the spot, where it is pleasing to the Lord

Act

The former Ofteringen Castle was in poor condition when she wanted to buy it from the last abbot of Rheinau Monastery, Leodegar Ineichen. Nevertheless, she returned to Ofteringen with three other sisters. There they began monastery life in Marienburg and perpetual adoration on the eve of the Corpus Christi feast in 1862 . So far, this has never been interrupted, even in difficult times. The abolished Rheinau Monastery “lives” on.

Monastery life

The sisters could not discourage the great initial difficulties, and the threatened repeal in the course of the regulations under Bismarck in 1872 were overcome through clever negotiations. Because they came from the Swiss monastery in Au, the monasteries formed the Swiss Benedictine Federation.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Ursula Pechloff: Marienburg Monastery Wutöschingen-Ofteringen. Peda Art Guide No. 101, 1993, ISBN 3-930102-09-9 , p. 5.
  2. Ursula Pechloff: Marienburg Monastery Wutöschingen-Ofteringen. Peda Art Guide No. 101, 1993, p. 5.