Wilhelm Eiselin

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Blessed Wilhelm Eiselin, engraving around 1650

Wilhelm Eiselin OPraem (* 1564 in Mindelheim ; † March 28, 1588 in Rot an der Rot ) was a canon of the former imperial abbey of Rot an der Rot in Upper Swabia who was beatified in 1593 .

Life

Wilhelm Eiselin was born in Mindelheim in Swabia. As a child he lost his parents during a plague epidemic and was subsequently accepted into the Rot an der Rot monastery, where he began studying theology , which he never finished. In 1581 he was accepted as a canon in the religious community. Eiselin did not have an easy position in the convent due to a lack of spiritual gifts and dropped out of theology studies and was mocked by his fellow conventuals. He died in 1588 at the age of 24, presumably of tuberculosis .

Full body relic of the Blessed

beatification

In the southern entrance hall of the St. Verena monastery church in Rot an der Rot, on the right-hand side near the entrance, there is a glass shrine with a scroll frame , in which the full-body relic of the Blessed is exhibited. The original epitaph read:

Stand still that you pass by. Here lies Brother Wilhelmus Eiselin, greater in virtue than in age, more worthy of heaven than earth. A flower among the thorns. From the flowers a lily. God broke off the flower because he liked it. He left us two lovely pledges: the smell and the stalk. The brothers kept the latter in these chests; the former smells all over the world. Died in the year of Christ 1588, the 28th March at the age of 24.

The attribution of a miracle five years after his death and his life portrayed as exemplary led to the fact that he was beatified in 1593 and has since been referred to as Venerable Servant of God .

literature

  • Ekkehard Schmid: Parish Church St. Verena - Former Abbey Church Rot an der Rot. Verlag Wilhelm Kienberger Lechbruck, 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ekkehard Schmid: Parish Church St. Verena - Former Abbey Church Rot an der Rot. Verlag Wilhelm Kienberger Lechbruck, 2007, p. 44

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personal data
SURNAME Eiselin, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canon canonized
DATE OF BIRTH 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH Mindelheim
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1588
Place of death Red on the red