Agnes Blannbekin

Blannbekin Agnes (* 1250, † May 10, 1315 in Vienna) was an Austrian Beguine, a Franciscan Sister of the Third Order and mystic.

Life

Agnes Blannbekin was a farmer's daughter, who was probably born around 1250 in Plambach, today cadastral Hofstetten - Grunau. She learned to read but could not write. Soon she felt a religious vocation and lived ascetically. In Vienna, she joined the Beguines at, but it is not known whether they lived in a community. Later she was Franciscan Tertiarerin.

Your not known by name confessor, a Franciscan Friars Minor, she reported visions and ecstasies, the beginning of 1290 wrote. In these records is about the question of her was the sanctum prepuce - foreskin of Jesus Christ - published by the Communion on the tongue. Therefore, the Vita et Revelationes were later released on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

Her life was determined by the ecclesiastical year and of prayers. She was trying to so many fairs as possible take part in the day and visited this church to church in Vienna. After the fairs she used to approach the altar and kiss him, which was understood as a provocation, because the stay at the altar women was forbidden. In one of her visions she saw dancing as a young woman at an altar.

The manuscript of her confessor copied in 1318 the monk Ermenrich. When Bernhard Pez 1731 Vita et Revelationes issued, they were placed on the Index. Only Peter Dinzelbacher ( employees Renate Vogeler ) was in the Göppinger work on German No. 419 1994 life and revelations of the Viennese Beguine Blannbekin Agnes († 1315) in a translation back out.

While Blannbekin today is because of her visions in mind, she was known for her lifetime primarily as chaplain of the poor serfs and subjects.