Peregrinatio

Peregrinatio (Latin ) is about living in a foreign country. The term is within the Roman Catholic monasticism a euphemism for turning away from the profane environment.

Term development

The Latin word peregrinus ( "beyond the Ackers, stranger " ) was given in the Christian parlance to mean " citizens of heaven - stranger on earth." In 2 Corinthians 5.6 says the Vulgate translation: " Dum sumus in corpore, peregrinamur a Domino ". In Hebrews 11:13 we read: " confitentes quia sunt super terram peregrini et hospites ". In the Middle Ages it was called those peregrini, who had set out for religious reasons in a foreign land. Thus came the word in all European languages ​​: pellegrino ( it.), Pelerin (French ), Pilgrim (Eng. ), pilgrim ( eng.).

Peregrinatio as a life form

Peregrinatio as a departure from the standards of the world is the idea behind the whole monasticism based, even if not a wandering life was associated with it in the external sense.

From late antiquity, the Peregrinatio also meant the pilgrimage to holy places, especially to saints' tombs, to the life-long self-imposed exile from the home country.

Iroschottische itinerant missionaries

Especially iroschottische monks lived this seclusion from the world, but refused placeless wandering. The iroschottischen monks took over from the late 6th century in the Old Irish legal planned for serious offenses exile as a voluntary penance for Christ, as " peregrinatio per Christ." They went to the stranger, for Christ's sake, founded monasteries or hermitages, often on an island, but also on the continent. Here are especially Columbanus of Luxeuil, Columban to name the Younger and Kilian.

They dispensed with their "in- the - stranger - Go " in the usual sense of security. This is ultimately due to Christ's command to leave his sake father and mother. The missionaries from Ireland left with the peregrination of the Community or of the clan their protection. They sank so down to the level of the exiles or the outlaws.

In some of the oldest Irish texts notes recorded that an exile for Christ's sake ( deorad dé ) have the same legal status and protection enjoyed like a king or a bishop, that is, he enjoyed throughout Ireland - not on the continent - immunity.

Irish monks began in the 5th and 6th centuries, with their proselytizing in England, especially at Northumbria, said the mission was initially only side effect of peregrination. From the thirties of the seventh century they are found on the (European) continent.

The Irish monks had some idea of peregrination, usually the monks were with twelve companions on the road to evangelize the populations in other countries. They stood with each other in a hierarchical order. Within their tour group they saw it self as a kind of inward repentance, and preferred the ascetic separation more than life in a foreign land. They are usually understood as ascetic and reformer. Some of the most important missionaries from Ireland were called the Holy Patrick of Ireland, the novels Palladius and Colum Cille or Columba. Columban came from the monastery of Iona, he is from 590 dated the continent. He evangelized the people to Bregenz.

Medieval pilgrimages

The Peregrinatio gesamtabendländische gained importance and became the pilgrimage to holy places, the software often associated with the grave of a saint. The pilgrimage should be a penance, pray for intercession or effect sanctification.

Also participating in the crusades was understood as a pilgrimage, to which particularly abundant graces could follow.

Were some of the most important places

Important missionaries, pilgrims

  • Egeria
  • Patrick
  • Palladius
  • Columban
  • Boniface
  • Willibrord
Sacred–profane dichotomy Second Epistle to the Corinthians Early Irish law Sippe Palladius (bishop of Ireland) Patrick (given name)
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