Saturnina by Sains-lès-Marquion

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Saint Saturnina, Iglesia de Juan Bautista, Arucas (Gran Canaria)

The Holy Saturnina should be a non-traditional time as a virgin martyr in Sains-lès-Marquion in today's French Pas-de-Calais , the martyrdom suffered.

live and die

Various sources name Saturnina as a woman or a virgin of Roman origin. Other authors suggest that Saturnina originally came from Saxony. She refused to be married through her family because, as a consecrated virgin , she wanted to lead a celibate life for Christ's sake. Before her groom, who wanted to enforce the wedding by force, she fled to what is now France. The groom tracked her down near the village of Sains-lès-Marquion and finally killed her after she continued to reject him.

Adoration

Shrine of St. Saturnina (front) during the exposure in St. Saturnina , Bad Driburg- Neuenheerse

According to tradition, the relics of Saturnina were first buried and venerated in the church of Sains-lès-Marquion. Under Bishop Biso von Paderborn (887–909), a delegation from Saxony requested the relics and transferred them to the Heerse women's monastery (now Neuenheerse ) east of Paderborn. The collegiate church and community took on the patronage of Saint Saturnina around the year 1000, at the latest from 1150 .

During the secularization the monastery was dissolved and the church continued as a parish church , the relics of the saints rest there to this day. Every year on the Sunday after Ascension Day , the Saturnine procession takes place through the town and the field , during which the reliquary shrines are carried.

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Individual evidence

  1. z. B. Jakob Torsy: The big name day calendar. 14th edition, Freiburg 1990
  2. a b s. on this the article on the website of the parish of St. Saturnina, Neuenheerse: http://www.pv-bad-driburg.de/index.php?id=312
  3. ^ Joseph Hilker: 1100 years of Neuenheerse. Neuenheerse 1968, p. 124.