Simon Scharsch

Simon Scharsch (born October 18, 1860 in Dinsheim-sur-Bruche , Alsace ; † March 3, 1928 in the Maria Hilf Monastery , Bonn - Endenich ) was a priest in the Order of the Oblates (OMI).

Career

After attending school in the French Oblate Monastery of Sion from 1875 to 1879 and a year of probation in Beek, Holland, he completed a philosophical and theological course in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1886. From 1888 to 1892 he was a teacher in the St. Karl Oblate Monastery near Valkenburg.

After the founding of the German Order Province of the Oblates in May 1895, Scharsch was its first Provincial until 1904. In 1896 he had the Boniface Monastery built in Hünfeld. In 1903 he was one of the first pioneers of the newly founded mission school Kloster Maria Engelport , of which he was first superior until 1904. Until 1919 he was a member of the General Council of the Oblates, then he was spiritual at the Benedictine convent Maria Hilf in Bonn-Endenich.

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Simon Scharsch played the organ at the age of 12 and later worked as a composer. One of his works is the Christmas carol Hodie Christ natus est .

He was also the author of various theological works with titles such as God's ways in the soul and exhortations for life in God (Dülmen 1927). The publication of the vita of the Benedictine superior Rita Scheuer (1880–1925), written by him, fell victim to the censorship of the order.

literature

• Norbert J. Pies: From Flaumbach into the wide world. 100 years of Maria Engelport Oblate Monastery and its history. Erftstadt 2003, ISBN 3-927049-34-4 .
• Norbert J. Pies: Scharsch, Simon . In: Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district . Trier 2004.