Vinnenberg pilgrimage

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Lithograph of Our Lady of Heaven, from the 1920s

The Vinnenberg pilgrimage is one of the oldest Marian pilgrimages to the Vinnenberg image of grace in the diocese of Münster . It was donated by the abbess Anna Maria Plönies at the end of the Thirty Years War and takes place on the birth of Mary (September 8th).

history

Due to the Thirty Years War, the Vinnenberg Monastery got into severe financial distress. At the request of the abbess Anna Maria Plönies whether the monastery was allowed to hold a procession on the birth of Mary (September 8th), Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen had his vicar general announce the following to the abbess on August 26th, 1654 :

“After the Reverend Prince and Lord, Mr. Christoff Bernhard, elected and confirmed Bishop of Munster, at the most humble request of Mrs. Abbattissin zu Vinnenbergh, graciously allowed that there on St. Birthdays of the very same Virgin Mary a procession with the carrying of the most venerable holy sacraments, as well as the image of the highly praised Mother of God should and may be employed. So Domini Pastores and Concionatores are hereby requested to exhort and invite their people and listeners to the most diligent at a certain time and place for the promotion of such devotion than to the greater glory of God and his most honored mother.
In fidem praesentum sedulam manu mea suscriptam sigillo proprio feci communiri. "

- Monasterii 1654, Aug. 26, Joannes Vagedes, S. Martini Decanuus, in Spirit. Vie. gnls

This held procession moved from the church in a chapel in the monastery garden and from there to other blessing altars on farms in the neighborhood. The regular pilgrimage was only interrupted for a few decades when the monastery was dissolved in 1810 and the image was brought to the neighboring Füchtorf. In 1827 Friedrich Wilhelm III. the municipality of Milte the monastery Vinnenberg. The community of Milte immediately began to renovate the monastery and worked hard to get the Füchtorf image back . When the miraculous image was finally able to return in 1831, the pilgrimage began to revive tentatively. When, at the end of the Kulturkampf in 1898, the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament moved into the Vinnenberg monastery, this promoted pilgrimage enormously. During the secular period of the Third Reich , it was thanks to Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen that the pilgrimage to Vinnenberg and the Telgter pilgrimage did not go under. For this reason, he also took up the image of grace in 1941.
The traditional pilgrimage to the miraculous image to Vinnenberg is part of the patronage on the feast of the birth of Mary on September 8th. Individual groups also come to Vinnenberg throughout the year. The pilgrimage by bike or roller skates is popular. But the surrounding parishes also regularly make pilgrimages to Vinnenberg; the parish of Füchtorf goes on a pilgrimage once a year to the miraculous image in Vinnenberg, six kilometers away. Even after the Benedictine nuns gave up the monastery in 2005, the "care of pilgrimage and pilgrimage" in the field of religious culture is one of the four pillars of the monastery as an educational and retreat house.

  • Vinnenberg image of grace with votive clothing before 1674

  • Vinnenberg image of grace with votive clothing before 1879

  • Reports of miracles

  • Pilgrimage sign of the 1920s: Our Lady of Vinnenberg, pray for us.

  • Blessed be the Holy Sacrament; through Mary to Jesus

Attributed prayers

Queen of Heaven

See, O Queen of Heaven and Earth,
my ruler and chosen dear mother,
I fall down at your feet and humbly ask
for your motherly blessing.

Let me be blessed
in body and soul by you, blessed by God and blessed among all women
.

Grant me the grace
to serve Jesus Christ, your Son here on earth, so
that one day I will be received with you to eternal happiness
. Amen.

With your son, Maria in,
you always want to be my protection!

Consolation of the people

With your son, Maria pure
My consolation but you always want to be.

Pilgrim prayer

Farewell, you place of grace,
I am driven to home,
But I will not forget your picture,
Until death breaks my eye.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonie Jüngst: Our Lady of Vinnenberg. Münster 1906, p. 18
  2. ↑ Church and Life
  3. ↑ Prayer and closing of prayer from a Vinnenberg prayer book from 1686, ed. by the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament, Vinnenberg Monastery, Druck Styler Missionare.
  4. ↑ Vinnenberger Chronicle on 12/08/1698 in Antonie recently : Our Lady of Vinnenberg, Münster 1906, p.1
  5. ↑ Vinnenberger Chronik on December 8, 1698 in Antonie Jüngst : Our Lady of Vinnenberg, Münster 1906, p. 19

literature

  • Antonie Jüngst : Our Lady of Vinnenberg , Münster 1906 (self-published by the monastery with the imprimatur of Felix von Hartmann as Vic. Genlis)
  • J. Hobbeling: Description of the Münster monastery. printed by Wittib Raeßfeldt zu Münster 1689, p. 24: "Brief but thorough report of the origin and miacules of the miraculous image of the Mother of God ... in Vinnenberg."
  • P. Bahlman: Miracle report from Vinnenberg 1629 - 1636. Warendorfer Blätter 11, 1912, p. 33 f.
  • Paul Leidinger: Vinnenberg - Cistercian women, then Benedictine women. In: Karl Hengst (Hrsg.): Westfälisches Klosterbuch. Lexicon of the monasteries and monasteries established before 1815 from their foundation to their abolition. Part 2: Münster - Zwillbrock. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-402-06888-5 , pp. 389-396.
  • Siegfried Schmieder: Ostbevern, contributions to the history and culture of a community in the Münsterland. Warendorf 1988.
  • Christa Paschert-Engelke, In the garden of the Roswindis: 63 portraits of women from the Warendorf district, Münster 2008, ISBN 3870233257 , pp. 36–37