Star Cross Order

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The Order of the Star Cross (Latin: Ordo Stellatae Crucis ) is an Austrian order of women founded in 1668 (" High Aristocratic Women 's Star Cross Order "), which still exists today.

history

The Star Cross was awarded on May 3, 1668 by Empress Eleonore , the third wife of Emperor Ferdinand III. , built. On July 28, 1668 Pope Clement IX. his approval for the establishment of the Star Cross Order. The Star Cross Order was officially donated on September 18, 1668 by the Dowager Empress Eleonora in memory of a lost and found reliquary cross for noble Catholic ladies to promote devotion to the Holy Cross, the virtuous life and charitable acts in Vienna. A special reliquary monstrance was donated by Empress Eleonore with the Star Cross Monstrance .

The order was newly constituted by Eleonore Magdalene von Pfalz-Neuburg and elevated to the status of the highest noble order of women. At first he was a prayer community. Later the religious ones were pushed back by aristocratic motives. Admission to the Star Cross Order for noble women corresponded to the honorary title of a chamberlain for men.

organization

There is no limit to the number of women known as Star Cross ladies, but old nobility is essential. The ancestors sample had to prove the mother with possibly 16 noble ancestors of the spouse until 1918 eight noble great-grandparents of the father and eight great-grandparents noble. The appointments are made by the Grand Master of the Order, “the highest patron saint”, always an Austrian Archduchess . As before, the worship of the Holy Cross and the spiritual and active exercise of mercy are the primary goals of the order of women.

After the death of Regina von Habsburg, the current Grand Master is her daughter Gabriela von Habsburg .

Highest protection women

decoration

The decoration, which has been changed four times, now consists of an imperial eagle with an octagonal red cross on top of a blue one. At the upper edge of the medallion-like frame there is a white enamelled band with the motto: "Salus et gloria". The medal is worn on a black ribbon. Feast days are May 3rd (foundation) and the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross on September 14th.

literature

  • Giovanni Battista Manni: Highly noble and godly gathering of the star-cross so called by your kays. Majesty Eleonora erect (from) Italian language vers. Voigt, Vienna [n] 1671.
  • Highly noble and godly assembly called by the Star Cross, so erected by Her Majesty Eleonora Witten Roman Empress. Trattner, Vienna 1760.
  • News about the imperial and royal star cross order. In Its Institutions, Forms, and Uses, drawn from the older Acts of this Order. Vienna 1784.
  • Anton-Joseph cardinalis archiepiscopus vindobonensis Gruscha: Sermon on the occasion of the bicentenary celebration of the foundation of the noble Star Cross. Mayer, Vienna 1868.
  • Normal for the chancellery of the high aristocratic order of the Star Cross in the appendix to the instruction on the laying of the ancestral samples at the order of the high aristocratic Star Cross. sl around 1897.
  • Else Kastner-Michalitschke: History and constitutions of the star cross order . Cavael, Leipzig 1909.
  • Friedrich Ernst Hübsch: The Star Cross Order. Vienna 1915.
  • Roman Freiherr von Procházka : Austrian Order Handbook , 1st – 4th, Munich 1979.
  • Christian Ortner , Georg Ludwigstorff: Austria's medals and decorations. Part I: The imperial-royal orders until 1918 , Verlag Militaria , Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-902526-81-6
  • The slaves of virtue. Order of Ladies from ancient Austria . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-903179-06-6

Web links

Commons : Order of the Star Cross  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Solemn requiem for the founder. - See: Little Chronicle. Vienna, February 6th. (From the Star Cross Order.) Wiener Zeitung, February 7, 1914 [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sternkreuzordensmonstrance , Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, accessed on July 20, 2018
  2. ↑ "Ladies in the Star Cross Order" , accessed on July 20, 2018
  3. ^ Anne Coreth, Pietas Austriaca, 43f.
  4. ↑ Stephan Baier: Habsburg Charm Offensive for Georgia, in: Die Tagespost , May 11, 2010, p. 8