World Youth Day Bell
The World Youth Day bell (officially . John Paul II bell ) heard in the percussive g 0 -7 (deviation in 16ths of a semitone ), is around 6,700 kg, 2,200 mm high and has a diameter of 2,180 mm. The cooldown is about 240 seconds.
The following inscription runs around the shoulder:
- TE DEUM LAUDO TE DOMINUM CONFITEOR CUM GLORIOSO APOSTOLORUM CHORO SUMMUS / PONTIFEX BENEDICTUS PP XVI. ME BENEDIXIT THE XX. M. AUGUSTI AD MMV OCCASIONE DIERUM XX. MUNDALIS IUVENTAE CONGREGATIONIS COLONIAE / IOANNES PAULUS II. VOCOR IN MEMORIAM SERVI DEI QUI OBIT THE II. M. APRILIS EIUSDEM ANNI
- (I praise you God, you Lord I confess in the glorious choir of the apostles. Pope Benedict XVI consecrated me on August 20, 2005 on the occasion of the 20th World Youth Days in Cologne. My name is John Paul II. In memory of the Servant of God, who went home on April 2nd of the same year.)
The bell was cast by Hans-Göran Hüesker (Bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher ) on July 1st, 2005 and named after Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005 . Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the bell at the beginning of the vigil ceremony on the World Youth Day on August 20, 2005 on Marienfeld near Cologne . Since August 22, 2005 it is the largest bell on St. Aposteln in Cologne.
It is rung as a soloist half an hour before the chorale office on solemn festivals and on the day of the death of Pope John Paul II.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Hoffs: Bell music of Catholic churches in Cologne ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.5 MB), pp. 86–88.
- ↑ Rüdiger Schneider: The secret of the bell founder. A visit to a bell and art foundry .