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[German Version] I. General – II. Significance in the Voodoo Cult – III. Iconography I. General Saint Expeditus was a martyr whose existence and name are questionable. The Martyrologium Hieronymianum mentions him under the date Apr 19 as belonging to a group of Armenian martyrs about whom nothing further is known. His veneration can only be demonstrated from the 18th century on, in the 19th century primarily in Italy and France, sometimes in forms against which the Holy See intervened. According to Delehaye, Expeditus is probably a misspelling of Elpidius. Franz Xaver Bischof Bibliog…

[German Version] (Mar 2, 1769, Höritz, Bohemian Forest – Nov 15, 1837, Vienna). After studying theology at Vienna and Linz, Pöschl was ordained to the priesthood in 1796 and appointed chaplain in Braunau am Inn. Influenced especially by M. Boos, J.E. Goßner, and Engelbert Maurer, a revivalist preacher in Graz, Pöschl became an enthusiastic millennialist (Millenarianism) in his preaching and pastoral contacts; he also held a doctrine of the devil …

[German Version] I. History, Process, Results 1. Annoucement and preparation. The idea of holding a general council for the church to assert its authority and its defensive stance against a modernity shaped by Enlighte…

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[German Version] (Saint's day: Feb 13). According to a vita from the High Middle Ages, Castor came from Aquitania and was a contemporary of Bishop Maximinus of Trier (died 346). He became priest and lived as a recluse in Karden (Mosel), where his remains were discovered under Bishop Weomad (died 791) and interred in the nearby Paulinus Church (renamed after Castor in …

[German Version] (Dec 2, 1813, Lochau – Apr 25, 1872, St. Pölten), bishop of St. (Sankt) Pölten and council secretary. He became a priest in 1837, a schoolmaster in 1838/39, professor of church history and canon law in Brixen in 1842, in Vienna in 1852 (after 1856 only of canon law), assistant bishop and vicar general for Vorarlberg in Feldkirch (diocese of Brixen) in 1862. He was bishop of St. Pölten from 1865 to 1872, and secretary of Vatican I in 1869/70. A moderate infallibilist (infallibility…

[German Version] (Feb 8, 1744, Mannheim – Feb 10, 1817, Regensburg) became governor of Mainz in Erfurt in 1771 (becoming associated here with J.W. v. Goethe and F. v. Schiller, among others), head of the cathedral school in Würzbu…

[German Version] (Aug 31, 1852, Marseille – Sep 11, 1932, Marseille). The son of a tailor, in 1875 priest in the archbishopric of Marseille, he resigned …

[German Version] (of Bolsena; feast day Jul 24). Her cult has been attested since the 4th century in the catacombs of Bolsena (Latium) named after her, and she is portrayed on a mosaic in San Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna). A legendary Greek passio (first attested in an Oxyrhynchos papyrus from the 5th cent.) and other, probably dependent, sources such as the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, which mention a martyr Christine from Tyre (Lebanon) on the same day, are at odds with this evidence. Franz Xaver Bischof Bibliography…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part II. Prehistory: The Challenges of Modernity previous chapter 1 Introduction The reunion conferences that were held in Bonn in 1874–1875 on the initiative and under the chairmanship of Ignaz von Döllinger are among the founding events of the modern ecumenical movement. These conferences were unique on account of their multilateral orientation and met with a wide response, especially in the English-speaking world. Since they were not followed up and failed to elicit any ecclesi…

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[English Version] Pöschl, Thomas (2.3.1769 Höritz, Böhmerwald – 15.11.1837 Wien), Studium der Theol. in Wien und Linz, 1796 Priester und Kaplan in Braunau/Inn. Beeinflußt v.a. von M. Boos, J.E. Goßner und vom Grazer Erweckungsprediger Engelbert Maurer, vertrat P. endzeitlich-chiliastische Schwärmereien (Chiliasmus) in Pred…