Valentin of Raetia

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St. Valentin von Raetia (* before 435 ; † around 475 in Mais, near today's Meran ) was one of the first bishops of Passau .

Life

Valentin lived at the time of the Great Migration in the 5th century. Of Dutch origin, he came to Passau around 435. He was ordained bishop by Pope Leo the Great and installed as bishop of Raetia , an area between St. Gotthard , Chur , Brixen , Regensburg and Passau. He strove for the mission of the local population, who were already Christian, but because of the circumstances of the time they mixed up with paganism or adhered to Arian doctrine . However, his efforts were unsuccessful. He was finally chased out of Passau, then led a life as a traveling missionary and died around 475 as a hermit on the Zenoberg in Mais Castle . Here he was first buried before he was brought to Trient and later to Passau.

Adoration

Valentin is considered a helper against epilepsy , cramps, gout and cattle diseases. He shares the patronage against epilepsy with Valentin von Terni . He is depicted as a bishop with a sick child lying at his feet (patronage against epilepsy). The former independent municipality of Tenna led him up to the municipality merger in the coat of arms.

In the auction room of the old Merkantilgebäudes of Bolzano is since 2003, the Academy of painter Eugene Blaas originally in 1863 for the St. Valentine Church in Obermais in Merano painted large oil painting The Holy Valentin preaches Rhaetians . The oversized work (8.24: 3.60 m), commissioned by Countess Esterházy von Weißenwolf, depicts the saint during the conversion of the Rhaetian indigenous population of Tyrol in a historical manner .

In the diocese of Passau, Valentin is venerated as one of the diocese patrons. His reliquary is exhibited on the first altar in the right aisle of the cathedral.

Remembrance day

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Jahn, 1991, p. 158.
  2. ↑ Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum 59.17.

See also

literature

  • Theodor Henner:  Valentin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 463.
  • Rudolf Herber: St. Valentin, Bishop of Raetia, and his veneration in Austria . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1950.
  • Joachim Jahn : Ducatus Baiuvariorum: The Bavarian Duchy of the Agilolfinger . (= Monographs on the history of the Middle Ages). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991. ISBN 3-7772-9108-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Valentin of Raetia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Passau
DATE OF BIRTH before 435
DATE OF DEATH at 475
Place of death Maize, today Meran