Stanislaus Schey

Stanislaus Schey (born August 5, 1770 in Heinsberg , † December 16, 1848 in Reiningue ) was a German Trappist and superior .

life and work

Maria Anna Schey entered the Darfeld-Rosenthal monastery on July 6, 1805 , accepted the religious name Stanislaus and made her vows on July 26, 1806 . From 1811 to 1814 she lived hidden with her community in Cologne . In 1825 she went with the last remaining nuns in Darfeld under Superior Hélène Van den Broeck to the later Oelenberg Abbey , which was prepared by Petrus Klausener and which until 1895 housed Trappists of both sexes. Schey was superior of the women's monastery from 1826 until her death (successor: Joséphine Merklin). She humbly did not exercise the right to benediction as abbess granted her on July 8, 1827 . On the run from the July Revolution , Schey led her community to the Beinwil Monastery in Switzerland in 1830 , from there to Laufen BL in 1831 and back to Oelenberg on August 24, 1833.

literature

• Wilhelm Knoll: 30 years of Trappist settlement in Darfeld 1795–1825. A contribution to church history in the Coesfeld district , Bernardus-Verlag, Mainz 2012, pp. 180, 223, 247–248, 323.
• Paul Stintzi (1898–1988): History of the Oelenberg Abbey 1046–1954 , Westmalle, 1962.

Web links

• Entry of Baumgarten Abbey on the Trappist homepage, with a story from Darfeld and a list of the superiors, in French