Der
Mönch Wunibald, dargestellt im Pontifikale Gundekarianum des 11. Jahrhunderts. Handschrift
des 11. Jahrhunderts im Diözesanarchiv Eichstätt
Saint Winebald
Abbé d'Heidenheim (+ 761)
Avec son père Richard et
son frère Willibald, il
se rendit en pèlerinage d'Angleterre à Rome. Le père mourut en cours de chemin,
à Lucques en Toscane. A Rome, Wineblad rencontra saint Boniface et
il suivit l'apôtre de la Germanie où il évangélisa la Bavière. Avec son frère,
il fonda un double monastère, l'un pour les femmes, l'autre pour les hommes.
Au monastère
d’Heidenheim, dans le Würtemberg, en 761, saint Winnibald, abbé. Originaire
d’Angleterre, il suivit saint Boniface avec son frère saint Willibald et l’aida
dans son œuvre d’évangélisation des peuples de Germanie.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/280/Saint-Wineblad.html
Also
known as
Winebaldus
Winnibald
Wunebald
Wunibald
Wynbald
Wynnebald
Vunibaldo
Vinebaldo
6 April on
some calendars
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Born a prince,
the son of Saint Richard
the King and Saint Wunna
of Wessex; brother of Saint Willibald and Saint Walburga;
nephew of Saint Boniface.
During a pilgrimage to
the Holy Lands, he became ill and
spent seven years in Rome, Italy recovering
and studying before finally returning to England. Missionary to Germany with Saint Boniface. Ordained in 739.
Worked in Thuringia, Bavaria and
Mainz. Founded a monastery at
Heidenheim, and served as its first abbot.
Born
18
December 761 at
Heidenheim, Germany
trowel,
referring to the churches and abbey he
built
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Sts. Willibald and
Winnebald
(WUNIBALD, WYNNEBALD).
Members of
the Order of St. Benedict, brothers, natives probably
of Wessex in England,
the former, first Bishop of Eichstätt,
born on 21 October, 700 (701); died on 7 July, 781 (787); the latter, Abbot of
Heidenheim, born in 702; died on 18 (19) December, 761. They were the children
of St. Richard, commonly called the King; their mother was a relative
of St.
Boniface. Willibald entered the Abbey
of Waltham in Hampshire at the age of five and was educated by Egwald.
He made a pilgrimage to Rome in
722 with his father and
brother. Richard died at Lucca and
was buried in the Church of St. Frigidian. After an attack
of malaria Willibald started from Rome in
724 with two companions on a trip to the Holy Land, passed the winter at Patara,
and arrived at Jerusalem on
11 November, 725. He then went to Tyre,
to Constantinople, and in 730 arrived at the Abbey of Monte Casino,
after having visited the grave of St. Severin of Noricum in Naples.
In 740 he was again at Rome,
whence he was sent by Gregory
III to Germany.
There he was welcomed by St.
Boniface, who ordained him
on 22 July, 741, and assigned him to missionary work at Eichstätt.
Possibly the ordination of
Willibald was connected with Boniface's missionary
plans regarding the Slavs.
On 21 October, 741 (742), Boniface consecrated him bishop at
Sülzenbrücken near Gotha. The Diocese
of Eichstätt was formed a few years later. Winnebald had,
after the departure of his brother for Palestine, lived in a monastery at Rome.
In 730 he visited England to
procure candidates for the religious state and returned the same
year. On his third visit to Rome, St.
Boniface received a promise that Winnebald would go to Germany. Winnebald arrived
in Thuringia on 30 November, 740, and was ordained priest.
He took part in the Concilium Germanicum, 21 April, 744 (742), was
present at the Synod of Liptine, 1 March, 745 (743),
subscribed Pepin's donation to Fulda,
753; joined the League of Attigny in 762; and subscribed
the last will of Remigius, Bishop of Strasburg.
With his brother he founded the double
monastery of Heidenheim in 752; Winnebald was placed
as abbot over
the men, and his sister, St.
Walburga, governed the female community.
Winnebald's body was found incorrupt eighteen years after his death. His name
is mentioned in the Benedictine Martyrology.
Willibald blessed the new church of Heidenheim in 778.
His feast occurs
in the Roman Martyrology on 7 July, but in England it
is observed by concession of Leo
XIII on 9 July. A costly reliquary for
his remains was completed in 1269.
Mershman,
Francis. "Sts. Willibald and Winnebald." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton
Company, 1912. 18 Dec.
2016 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15644c.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Michael C. Tinkler.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2021 by Kevin Knight.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15644c.htm
Winebald, OSB Abbot (AC)
(also known as Winnibald,
Wunebald, Wynbald)
Born in Wessex, England;
died at Heidenheim, Germany, on December 18, 761.
Saint Richard the Saxon,
an important landowner in 8th century Britain embarked with his two sons,
Willibald and Winebald, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but he died in Lucca,
Italy.
From Rome Willibald went
on to the Holy Land (the first Englishman in recorded history to go there).
Winebald did not have his brother's stamina. He was ill by the time they
reached Rome. He decided to stay there as a student for seven years. There he
became a Benedictine monk, returning to England, but twice coming back with
friends on further pilgrimages to Rome. He was there in 739 when his kinsman,
Saint Boniface, arrived.
Boniface's supreme
achievement was to bring the Gospel to much of Germany. Although Winebald was
still a sick man, Boniface persuaded his fellow-countryman to join his mission
to the Germans. It was dangerous work, but Winebald soon arrived in Thuringia and
was ordained a priest. In spite of his ill-health, he took over the care of
seven churches. The German Saxons continually tried to hamper his work, but he
pressed on into Bavaria, working there for several years until the call of the
cloister proved too strong for him and he joined his brother Willibald at
Eichstätt.
Willibald was by now
bishop of Eichstätt, and he longed to found a double monastery in his diocese.
Winebald he perceived to be the perfect abbot of the men. The two brothers
decided that their sister Walburga, who was still in England, should rule the
nuns. So Winebald went to a remote spot near Heidenheim (Würtemburg), and built
the Benedictine double monastery, which became an important center for the
education of clergy. Walburga came to join him. All this the saint accomplished
in spite of continual illness, which prevented him from ending his life at
Monte Cassino as he had hoped.
Heidenheim Abbey also
became the center for evangelization as well as for prayer and work. Winebald
narrowly escaped assassination by pagans in the neighborhood.
His last three years were
spent as an invalid in great pain. Sometimes he could not even leave his cell
to worship with the other monks. Yet he bore the illness patiently. And when he
died, Willibald and Walburga were at his side. His biographer, Hugeburc, also
wrote the story of his brother. Miracles were recorded at Winebald's tomb
(Attwater, Benedictines, Bentley, Encyclopedia, Farmer).
In art, Winebald is
portrayed as an abbot with a bricklayer's trowel. Sometimes he may be shown
with his brother and father (Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1218.shtml
St. Winebald, Abbot and
Confessor
ST. RICHARD, the
English-Saxon king, seems to have been a prince of Westsex; for he was related
to St. Boniface, and set out on his pilgrimage from Hamble-Haven in that
country. It is thought that he was one of those princes who ruled in part of
that kingdom, till they were compelled to give way to King Ceadwall. 1 God
blessed him with three children, St. Winebald, the eldest, St. Willibald, who
died bishop of Eystadt, and St. Walburga. St. Richard leaving his native
country, took with him his two sons, and embarking at Hamble-Haven, landed on
the coast of Normandy, and visiting all the places of devotion on his way,
travelled into Italy, intending to go to Rome: but at Lucca fell sick and died
about the year 722. His body was buried in the church of St. Frigidian, 2 and
on account of certain famous miracles wrought at his tomb, was taken up by
Gregory, bishop of Lucca, by the pope’s authority, and is kept in a rich shrine
in that church. His name occurs in the Roman Martyrology on the 7th of
February. SS. Winebald and Willibald accomplished their pilgrimage to Rome.
After some stay there to perform their devotions, St. Willibald undertook
another pilgrimage to the holy places in Palestine; but Winebald, who is by
some called Wunibald, who was from his childhood of a weak sickly constitution,
remained at Rome, where he pursued his studies seven years, took the tonsure,
and devoted himself with his whole heart to the divine service. Then returning
to England, he engaged a third brother and several amongst his kindred and
acquaintance to accompany him in his journey back to Rome, and there dedicate
themselves to God in a religious state. St. Boniface, who was our saint’s
cousin, coming to that city in 738, prevailed with him upon motives of charity
to undertake a share of his labours in the conversion of the infidels and in
founding the infant church of Germany. Winebald accompanied him into Thuringia,
and being ordained priest by that holy archbishop, took upon him by his
commission, the care of seven churches in that country, especially at Erfurt,
as the nun informs us in the life of our saint. These churches the chronicle of
Andesches and Bruschius call seven monasteries; but without authority or
probability, as Serarius observes. St. Willibald was made bishop of Aychstadt
in Franconia in 781, and being desirous to erect a double monastery which might
be a pattern and seminary of piety and learning to the numerous churches which
he had planted, prevailed with his brother Winebald, and his sister Walburga,
whom he invited out of England, to undertake that charge.
Winebald, therefore,
translated his monastery from Schwanfield to Heidenheim, where, having
purchased a wild spot of ground covered with shrubs and bushes, he cleared it
and built first little cells or mean cottages for himself and his monks, and
shortly after erected a monastery. A nunnery was founded by him in the
neighbourhood, which St. Walburga governed. The idolaters often attempted the
life of St. Winebald by poison and by open violence: but by the divine
protection he escaped their snares, and continued by his zealous labours to
extend on every side the pale of Christ’s fold. He was solicitous in the first
place to maintain in his religious community the perfect spirit of their holy
state, teaching them above all things to persevere instant in prayer, 3 and
to keep inviolably in mind the humility of our Lord, and his meekness and holy
conversation, as the standard from which they were never to turn their eyes.
They who find a reluctance arising from the corruption of their passions, must
nevertheless force themselves cheerfully to all that which is good, especially
to divine love, fraternal compassion, patience when they are despised,
meekness, and assiduous prayer; for God, beholding their conflicts and the
earnestness of their desires and endeavours, will in the end grant them the
true grace of prayer, meekness, and the bowels of mercy, and will fill them
with the fruits of the Spirit, in which state the Lord seems to perform all
things in them; so sweet do humility, love, meekness, and prayer become. Thus
our holy abbot encouraged his spiritual children, and strengthened in them the
spirit of Christ; but he inculcated to them both by word and example, that
Christ never plants his spirit nor establishes the kingdom of his grace in
souls which are not prepared by self-denial, mortification, obedience,
simplicity, a life of prayer, and profound humility; for self-elevation is the
greatest abasement, and self-abasement is the highest exaltation, honour, and
dignity. For only he can cleave to the Lord who has freed his heart from
earthly lusts, and disengaged his affections from the covetousness of the
world. St. Winebald was afflicted many years with sickness, and had a private
chapel erected in his own cell, in which he said mass when he was not able to
go to church. Once, being looked upon as brought by his distemper to extremity,
and almost to the point of death, he made a visit of devotion to the shrine of
St. Boniface, once his spiritual father and much honoured friend in Christ; and
in three weeks’ time was restored to his health. Some time after, he relapsed
into his former ill state of health, and in his last moments earnestly exhorted
his disciples to advance with their whole might towards God without stopping or
looking behind them; for no one can be found worthy to enter the holy city, who
strives not by doing his utmost that his name be written in heaven with the
first-born. For this, in the earnestness of our desires, we ought to pour out
tears day and night. Our saint had made them, as it were, the very food of the
soul, and having been tried and purified by a lingering sickness as the pure
gold in the furnace, went to God on the 18th of December, 760. After his death
St. Willibald committed the superintendency over the monastery of monks to the
holy abbess St. Walburga so long as she lived. The monastery of Heidenhem was
finally dissolved upon the change of religion in the province of Brandenburg
Anspach, in which it was situated. The nun who wrote the life of St. Winebald
assures us, that several miraculous cures were performed at his tomb. St.
Ludger also writes in the life of St. Gregory of Utrecht, “Winebald was very
dear to my master Gregory, and shows by great miracles since his death what he
did whilst living.” Rader testifies, that St. Winebald is honoured among the
saints in several churches in Germany, though his name is not inserted in the
Roman Martyrology, as Mabillon and Basnage remark. See his life, written, not
by St. Walburga, as some have said, but by another contemporary nun of her
monastery, who had before wrote the life of St. Willibald. In that of St.
Winebald we have an account of the manner of canonizing saints in that age, and
of the twofold labour to which monks then applied themselves, in tilling land
and making that which was wild arable; and in instructing and preaching. This
work was published entire by Canisius in his Leotiones Antiquæ, t. 4, more
correctly by Mabillon, Act. Ben. t. 4, and most accurately by Basnage in his
edition of Canisius in 1725, t. 2, part 2.
Note 1. Bede, l. 4,
c. 12. [back]
Note 2. St.
Frigidian, or Fridian, an Irishman, who is honoured on the 18th of March, and
his translation on the 18th of November, was bishop of Lucca in the sixth
century, famous for sanctity and miracles, and was buried in this church, which
he had founded in honour of St. Vincent: but it since bears his name, and now
belongs to a famous monastery of Olivetan monks. [back]
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume XII: December. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/12/183.html
San Wunibald di Heidenheim
(Vunibaldo) Abate
Wessex (Gran Bretagna),
701 - Heidenheim (Germania), 18 dicembre 761
Vunibaldo nacque nel 701
nel Wessex (Inghilterra) da una famiglia importante per la Chiesa: il fratello
fu il grande vescovo di Eichstätt (Baviera) Villibaldo, lo zio Bonifacio,
l'evangelizzatore della Germania, e la sorella Valburga, figura carismatica del
ramo femminile del monastero di Heidenheim, fondato da Vunibaldo nella diocesi
retta dal fratello. Fu importante centro culturale e missionario. Pellegrino a
Roma e in Terra Santa, al ritorno entrò con Villibaldo tra i benedettini di
Montecassino. Nel 738 fu chiamato dallo zio in Germania e mandato ad evangelizzare
Turingia e Baviera. Morì nel 761. E quando il fratello ne fece esumare le
spoglie, nel 777, esse erano intatte. Protegge sposi e minatori. (Avvenire)
Patronato: Sposi,
Minatori
Martirologio Romano: Nel
monastero di Hildesheim nella Baviera, in Germania, san Vinebaldo, abate, che,
di origine inglese, insieme al fratello san Villibaldo seguì san Bonifacio e lo
aiutò nell’opera di evangelizzazione delle popolazioni germaniche.
San Wunibald chiamato
anche Wynnebald, nacque nel 701 nel Wessex, in Gran Bretagna, da genitori
anglosassoni, il padre secondo tardive tradizioni, era un re di nome Riccardo e
la madre si chiamava Wunna.
Divenuto giovane,
nell’estate del 721 insieme al padre ed al fratello Willibald, intraprese un
pellegrinaggio a Roma, una vera impresa per quell’epoca, ma il padre arrivato a
Lucca, morì durante il viaggio.
Wunibald per motivi di
studio, rimase a Roma in un monastero fino al 739, mentre il fratello Willibald
proseguiva nel 723 fino alla Terra Santa, meta finale di molti pellegrinaggi
medioevali.
Nel 729-30 Wunibald
ritornò brevemente in Gran Bretagna e qui convinse ai suoi ideali ascetici, un
altro fratello, di cui non si sa il nome e insieme ripartirono per Roma. Nel
738 nella città pontificia incontrò s. Bonifacio Winfrid (680-755) suo parente,
il grande monaco anglosassone, evangelizzatore della Germania; Wunibald
attratto dall’ideale missionario di s. Bonifacio, lasciò la vita contemplativa
del monastero romano e nel 739 giunse come missionario in Turingia, regione
della Germania, qui fu consacrato sacerdote dallo stesso Bonifacio, il quale
gli affidò la cura di sette chiese, stabilendo la sede a Sülzenbrücken a sud di
Erfurt.
Qui ritrovò anche suo
fratello Willibald il quale fu consacrato nel 742, vescovo di Eichstätt, da s.
Bonifacio, che era diventato arcivescovo di Magonza. Chiamato dal duca
Odilone, Wunibald nel 744 si recò in Baviera per diffondere il suo apostolato
missionario, nella regione presso il fiume Vils nel Pfalz Superiore.
Dopo tre anni di intenso
lavoro, nel 747 ritornò da Bonifacio, arcivescovo di Magonza, ma la sua
permanenza in questa città non fu lunga, egli contrariamente al fratello, era
sempre attratto dalla vita monastica e dalla solitudine e così d’accordo con il
fratello vescovo, acquistò in una zona isolata presso Eichstätt, un terreno e
insieme ad alcuni compagni, nel 752 ne iniziò la coltivazione e nello stesso
tempo cominciò ad erigere il monastero di Heidenheim.
Una volta completato il
convento, ne divenne il primo abate, dedicandosi alle missioni ed al ripristino
della fede cristiana nella popolazione, nel frattempo ricaduta nel paganesimo;
fu ammirato ma anche odiato per il suo zelo e la sua austerità.
Gli ultimi anni della sua
vita furono provati da grave malattia, nonostante ciò egli fece ancora un
faticoso viaggio a Würzburg, per incontrare il vescovo locale e poi al
monastero di Fulda, dove era la tomba di s. Bonifacio, morto nel 755; questi
viaggi avevano lo scopo di mantenere in vita e sostenere il suo
monastero.
Desiderava finire la sua
vita a Montecassino, dove era già atteso, presso la tomba del patriarca s.
Benedetto, alla cui Regola aveva affidato il suo monastero, ma il fratello
vescovo Willibald lo distolse a causa dell’impedimento delle sue gravi
infermità. Wunibald morì pertanto a Heidenheim, il 18 dicembre 761, assistito
dal fratello e lì sepolto.
La sorella s. Valburga,
monaca a Wimborne era stata trasferita ad Heidenheim come badessa delle
monache, chiamata dal fratello Willibald, in questo cosiddetto doppio
monastero, il cui ramo maschile era diretto da Wunibald, alla morte di questi,
divenne badessa generale del doppio monastero; nel 776 Willibald fece costruire
una chiesa più grande e un anno dopo fece trasferire solennemente il corpo del
fratello abate, nella nuova cripta, confermando in tal modo il culto che era
iniziato subito dopo la morte.
La maggior parte delle
sue reliquie risultano disperse dal tempo della Riforma Protestante (XVI sec.),
alcune sono sparse in varie città della Germania. La città di Eichstätt
annovera tra i suoi santi patroni, almeno dal 1075, i tre fratelli Willibald,
Wunibald e Valburga; durante i secoli vi sono state varie cerimonie e
traslazioni che hanno visto le reliquie dei tre fratelli, insieme esposte alla
venerazione dei fedeli.
S. Wunibald ha un culto
molto diffuso in Germania ed è patrono di tante località, che non è possibile
qui elencare; è stato anche soggetto molto rappresentato nell’arte; innumerevoli
sono i bassorilievi, busti, pitture, reliquiari, sigilli, incisioni, statue che
lo raffigurano, raramente da solo, è sempre in abiti da monaco, a volte con il
pastorale di abate o con il libro della Regola e dal 1500 anche con una
cazzuola in mano, simbolo della costruzione del monastero.
Autore: Antonio
Borrelli
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/91528
Den hellige Winnibald av
Heidenheim (~701-761)
Minnedag: 18.
desember
Den hellige Winnibald
(Wunibald, Winebald, Wynbald, Wynnebald, lat: Winebaldus) ble født rundt år 701
i Wessex i Sør-England. Han tilhørte en hellig familie, sønn av et hellig
ektepar som tradisjonen kaller de hellige «Richard av Wessex» (feilaktig
kalt konge) og Wunna,
og bror av de hellige Willibald av
Eichstätt og Valburga. Den
hellige Bonifatius var
en slektning av Wunna.
Rundt år 720 dro
Winnibald sammen med sin far og sin bror og andre angelsaksiske adelsmenn fra
Hampshire på en pilegrimstur til apostelgravene i Roma. Imidlertid ble Richard
syk og døde i Lucca, hvor han ble gravlagt i kirken St. Frigidian. De andre ble
også febersyke av det uvante klimaet. Winnibald ble igjen i Roma, siden han
helt fra barndommen hadde vært svakelig og ikke var sterk nok til å fortsette
pilegrimsreisen, mens broren Willibald fortsatte til Det hellige Land.
Winnibald studerte i syv
år i Roma og ble munk i et kloster før han i 727 vendte tilbake til England,
men to ganger kom han tilbake til Roma som pilegrim sammen med venner, siste
gang i 737/38. Da var hans slektning Bonifatius også i byen på sitt tredje besøk
der, og han overtalte Winnibald og noen ledsagere til å komme til Tyskland. Den
30. november 740 kom Winnibald til Thüringen, hvor Bonifatius viet ham til
prest i Sülzenbrücken ved Arnstadt i Thüringen og sendte ham som misjonær til
Thüringen og Bayern. Det var vanskelig arbeid, og til tross for sin dårlige
helse overtok Winnibald ansvaret for syv kirker med hovedkvarter i
Sülzenbrücken nær Erfurt.
Fra 744 virket Winnibald
i Oberpfalz med støtte fra hertug Odilo av Bayern, og fra 747 virket han som
sjelesørger i Mainz. Han deltok på Consilium Germanicum den 21. april
744 (742?), var til stede på synoden i Liptine den 1. mars 745 (743?),
underskrev Pipins donasjon til Fulda i 753, sluttet seg til Ligaen av Attigny i
762 og skrev under testamentet til biskop Remigius av Strasbourg.
I mellomtiden hadde
broren Willibald også kommet under Bonifatius' innflytelse, og fra 741 var han
biskop av Eichstätt i Mittelfranken. Han ønsket å grunnlegge et dobbeltkloster
etter mønster av Montecassino som en modell for fromhet og lærdom for de
kristne kommunitetene i Tyskland, og han ba Winnibald og deres søster Valburga
om å gjennomføre dette.
Winnibald dro i 751/52
til Heidenheim i Württemberg, hvor han ryddet et vilt sted over en mineralkilde
for trær og busker og bygde små celler for sine munker og seg selv. Senere
bygde de et kloster og et separat etablissement for Valburga og hennes nonner. Winnibald
innførte den hellige Benedikts regel
i begge kommunitetene, og klosteret ble et viktig senter for utbredelse av
regelen. Det var det eneste dobbeltklosteret blant grunnleggelsene i Tyskland
på 700-tallet, utvilsomt basert på den angelsaksiske modellen. Selv ble
Winnibald den første abbeden for mannsklosteret, mens Valburga ledet
kvinneklosteret som abbedisse. Klosteret utviklet seg snart til et kultur- og
misjonssentrum, ikke minst takket være Valburgas store karisma. Winnibald
unnslapp så vidt et mordforsøk fra hedninger i nabolaget.
Abbed Winnibald led lenge
av dårlig helse på grunn av en alvorlig reumatisk sykdom, og det hindret ham i
å tilbringe sine siste dager på Montecassino, som han hadde håpet. I sine tre
siste år var han invalid og med konstante smerter, og noen ganger kunne han
ikke engang forlate sin celle for å delta i gudstjenesten med de andre munkene.
Han døde i Heidenheim den 18. (19.?) desember 761, med begge søsknene til
stede.
Valburga overtok ledelsen
av både manns- og kvinneklosteret. Winnibalds biograf var nonnen Hugeburc
[Hugebure, Huneberc], som også skrev ned Willibalds Hodoeporicon etter
hans diktat. Winnibald ble gravlagt i kirken i Heidenheim, og det skjedde snart
mange mirakler ved graven. Da biskop Willibald åpnet brorens grav seksten år
senere, den 24. september 777, var hans legeme ennå like friskt. Det ble
skrinlagt i nærvær av Willibald og Valburga.
Winnibalds relikvier kom
rundt 870 til domkirken i Eichstätt. Hans gravmæle fra 1483 står i den
tidligere klosterkirken i Heidenheim. Denne kirken ble overtatt av lutheranerne
under reformasjonen. I 1968 ble Willibalds grav åpnet, men den ble funnet
fullstendig tom. Det er ikke kjent om relikviene ble flyttet til et trygt sted
eller om de ble ødelagt under reformasjonen, de finnes i alle fall ikke lenger.
Winnibalds minnedag er
18. desember. Han fremstilles som abbed med stav, og hans andre attributter en
bok og murerskje, som viser til grunnleggelsen av Heidenheim. Noen ganger
avbildes hammen med broren og faren.
Kilder:
Attwater/John, Attwater/Cumming, Farmer, Bentley, Butler (XII), Benedictines,
Bunson, Cruz (1), Schauber/Schindler, Gorys, Dammer/Adam, KIR, CE, CSO, Patron
Saints SQPN, Infocatho, Bautz, Heiligenlexikon, Philomenia - Kompilasjon
og oversettelse: p. Per
Einar Odden - Opprettet: 2000-02-01 21:34 -
Sist oppdatert: 2006-01-01 17:23
SOURCE : http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/winnibal
Winnibald (ook Wunibald) van
Heidenheim, Duitsland; ; † 761.
Feest 7 juli (Fulda:
tezamen met Willibald) &15 (Eichstätt) & 18 december.
Hij werd rond 701 in het
Angelsaksische Wessex geboren als zoon van twee heilige ouders: Sint Richard (†
ca 720; feest 7 februari) en Sint Wunna († na 710; feest 7 februari). Ook zijn
broer en zus, Willibald († ca 787; feest 7 juli) en zijn zus Walburga († 779;
feest 25 februari), zijn heiligen.
Met zijn vader en zijn broer ondernam hij een pelgrimstocht naar de
apostelgraven in Rome. Daar werd hij ziek en bleef er achter.
Zijn vader Richard zou op
de terugweg in Lucca sterven. Hij werd er in de plaatselijke kerk bijgezet en
wordt sindsdien vereerd als een heilige.
Winnibald zou zeven jaar
in Rome blijven om te studeren. Na zijn terugkeer in Engeland werd hij door
zijn oom, Sint Bonifatius († 754; feest 5 juni) gevraagd hem in Germanië (=
nagenoeg het huidige Duitsland) te komen helpen bij de verbreiding van het evangelie.
Zo stak hij met zijn
broer en zus over naar het vasteland en voegde zich bij Bonifatius. Deze wijdde
hem in 739 tot priester. Hij werkte in Thüringen, Beieren en Mainz. Rond 751
begaf hij zich naar zijn broer die intussen bisschop van Eichstätt was geworden.
Met hun zus Walburga stichtten zij het dubbelklooster van
Heidenheim stichtte. Walburga werd abdis en hij, Winnibald, abt.
Verering & Cultuur
Winnibald staat te boek als patroon van bouwvakkers en verloofden.
Hij wordt afgebeeld met staf (geeft de waardigheid van abt aan) en troffel
(heeft betrekking op de bouw van klooster en kerk).
Bronnen
[Lin.1999; Dries van den Akker s.j./2007.11.28]
© A. van den Akker
s.j.
SOURCE : http://heiligen-3s.nl/heiligen/12/18/12-18-0761-winnibald.php
