Simon from Collazzone

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Blessed Simon of Collazzone; around 1450, by Jacopo Vincioli
Madonna with early Franciscan saints (2nd person from left Simon von Collazzone, left next to St. Francis), around 1450
Today's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, San Ansano, Spoleto

Simon von Collazzone , also Simon von Spoleto (* around 1200 in Collazzone , Italy, † April 24, 1250 in Spoleto ) was an early Franciscan and companion of St. Francis . He is traditionally venerated as a blessed .

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Simon was born as a nobleman in Collazzone Castle - today's town hall. His mother Mathilde is said to have been friends with Maria von Brabant , the second wife of Emperor Otto IV . Under the influence of Francis, Simon von Collazzone renounced his property and joined the new order of the Franciscans at the age of 14.

At the General Chapter of 1221 he was appointed to accompany Caesarius of Speyer . With him and the Franciscan chronicler Thomas von Celano († 1260) he moved to Germany in 1222 to found the first Franciscan convent there. In total the group consisted of about 25 companions. From Augsburg they founded monasteries on the Danube and in the Rhineland. One of the first was the Franciscan monastery in Speyer in the homeland of Caesarius ; branches were also set up in Cologne , Mainz and Worms .

In 1223 Simon von Collazzone returned to Italy with Caesarius von Speyer. His mother and sister Emilia now also joined the Poor Clares , the female branch of the order.

Simon became provincial for the Marches in 1244 and for Umbria in 1248 . The confrater Salimbene of Parma , who stayed with him in Marseilles in 1248 , praised his miraculous work .

The religious died in 1250 on a visitation trip in the monastery of St. Elia in Spoleto. The Rocca Albornoziana fortress stands in this place today. Simon von Collazzone was venerated as a saint while he was still alive and there were reports of many posthumous miracles at his intercession.

That is why Pope Innocent IV commissioned the Bishop of Spoleto and two other prelates in 1252 to initiate the canonization process at the diocesan level and to examine everything carefully. With the death of the Pope in 1254 the matter stalled. In 1260, Simon's relics were collected and placed in the church of St. Simon and Jude, built in his honor . The apostle Simon was deliberately chosen as the church patron because the church could not be named after Simon von Collazzone. His formal canonization had not yet taken place and was never supposed to take place. In 1863 his remains were transferred to the cathedral of Spoleto, and in 2000 to the Franciscan church of San Ansano there. Today they rest here in a sarcophagus from the 19th century. In Collazzone the "Via Beato Simone" ( street of the blessed Simon ) is named after him.

literature

  • Carlo Barberini (Cardinal): Vite de Santi , Rome, 1661, p. 3 u. L 1; Digital scans
  • Johannes Schlageter: Chronica fratris Jordani , Volume 1 of: Sources for Franciscan History , BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, p. 159, ISBN 3848217376 ; (Digital scan)
  • Liz Herbert McAvoy: Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe , Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2010, p. 75, ISBN 1843835207 ; (Digital scan)
  • Benignus Fremaut: Leven van den S. Simon van Collazzono , in: Den geestelycken palm-boom , Volume 11, 1717, pages 1, 2 and 3; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on the Franciscan monastery in Mainz ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klosterlexikon-rlp.de
  2. ↑ Website on the history of the Simon and Jude Church in Spoleto ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spoletoturismo.net
  3. ^ Road map of Via Beato Simone
personal data
SURNAME Simon from Collazzone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simon of Spoleto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscans and Companions of St. Francis, missionary in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH around 1200
PLACE OF BIRTH Collazzone , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1250
Place of death Spoleto