Valerio Maccioni (clergyman)

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Valerio Maccioni

Valerio Maccioni (* 1622 in San Marino ; † September 5, 1676 in Hanover ) was a San Marinese Roman Catholic clergyman at Duke Johann Friedrich's court in Hanover and from 1667 titular Bishop of Morocco and Apostolic Vicar of the newly established Apostolic Vicariate of the North .

Life

Maccioni came from a leading family in the Republic of San Marino. The place and date of his ordination are unknown. Since 1662 he was spiritual director of the Guelph princes Johann Friedrich, who in 1651 in Italy to the Catholic Church converted was. During these years, Lutheran Irishmen such as the Helmstedt theologian Georg Calixt raised hopes for a reunification of the denominations, and on the Catholic side the expectation of increased conversions, especially among the nobility. It was against this background that Maccioni's Nubes lucida (1663) was created.

In 1665 Johann Friedrich became Prince of Calenberg with his seat in Hanover. He had to guarantee the country's Lutheran denomination, but brought Capuchins into his residence and promoted Catholic parish formation. Initially in the great hall of the Leineschloss , later in the castle chapel, Maccioni celebrated the first Catholic masses since the Reformation .

At the request of Johann Friedrich, Pope Alexander VII established the Apostolic Vicariate of the North German Missions on April 28, 1667 and appointed Valerio Maccioni as the first Apostolic Vicar. He received the episcopal ordination on April 21, 1669 by the Archbishop of Mainz Johann Philipp von Schönborn .

Epitaph Maccionis in the crypt of St. Clemens Church , Hanover

In 1670, under Maccioni's leadership, the first public Catholic procession took place in the Lutheran city of Hanover. On his visitation trips Maccioni u. a. the Halberstadt Cathedral , and described in his report to the Roman Congregation for Propaganda Fide the local unique interdenominational liturgy. In the castle church in Schwerin , where after the conversion Christian Ludwig I held catholic services, he celebrated the mass and donated the confirmation . In 1671/72 he spent a year at the widow's residence of Johann Friedrich's sister Sophie Amalie of Denmark in Nykøbing Falster and with her son King Christian V in Copenhagen to persuade them to convert, which however did not take place.

Title page of the Nubes Lucida

Maccioni died in 1676 and was buried in Hanover. His epitaph is in the crypt of the St. Clemens Church, which was built in the Calenberger Neustadt from 1712 - also as a result of his work .

Duke Johann Friedrich Gerhard Wolter tried to win Molanus to succeed him as Apostolic Vicar and urged him to convert. Only after his rejection did they choose Niels Stensen .

Fonts

  • Nubes lucida sive declaratio judicii D. Valerii Maccionii, Nobilis Mon-titani , & Equitis Aurati & c. super duobus principiis, seu fundamentis fidei, & dogmatum, quae Doctor Georgius Calixtus Confess. Aug. Theologus studio reconciliandae inter Christianos Unitatis, cum in Tractatibus suis de Auctoritate Antiquitatis, & Primaevae Ecclesiae, tum in aliis libris commendat, tanquam Media dictae Unitati admodum congrua. Haec sunt Scriptura , & Traditio . Cologne 1663, 3rd improved edition Osnabrück 1676

Individual evidence

  1. Jesuits had rejected the Secret Council : Hans Walter Krumwiede : Church history of Lower Saxony . Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 1996, pp. 218-220 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ History of the St. Clement Basilica in Hanover
  3. ^ A b Hans Walter Krumwiede: Church history of Lower Saxony , p. 220 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Andreas Odenthal : Liturgy from the early Middle Ages to the age of confessionalization . Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2011, p. 326 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ A new Catholic beginning in Schwerin
  6. ^ Troels Kardel and Paul Maquet (eds.): Nicolaus Steno. Biography and Original Papers of a 17th Century Scientist . Heidelberg etc. (Springer) 2013. pp. 311f. ( Digitized version )
  7. "Shining cloud ( Mt 17.5  EU - The picture is chosen because the light of truth wells out of the actually casting shadow.) Or presentation of the judgment of D. Valerio Maccionis, nobleman of San Marino and knight of the golden spur etc. , on the two principles or foundations of faith and teachings Dr. Georg Calixt, theologian of the Augsburg Confession, endeavoring to restore the unity of Christians, recommends partly in his treatises on the authority of the old and early church, partly in other books, as very suitable means for the unity mentioned. That is scripture and tradition. "

Web links

Commons : Valerio Maccioni  - collection of images, videos and audio files
predecessor Office successor
- Vicar Apostolic of the North
1667–1676
Niels Stensen