Augustin Henninghaus

Augustin Henninghaus SVD ( born September 11, 1862 in Menden (Sauerland ), † 20 July 1939 Yanzhou, China ) was a German missionary and bishop.

Life

Background and education

After technical school with a visit to the school in his hometown and two years of private education, he entered on October 11, 1879 in the Divine Word Mission Order and was ordained a priest on May 30, 1885.

Missionary to China

After that he was sent in 1886 by Arnold Janssen, the founder and first Superior General of the Divine Word Missionaries in the Divine Word Mission in Shantung to China, where he worked since then as a Catholic missionary.

Vicar Apostolic of Yenchowfu ( Yanzhou )

In 1904 he was appointed by Pope Pius X as a missionary bishop of Yenchowfu and Titular Bishop of Hypaepa. In 1935, Bishop was retired and lived until his death in 1939 in China.

Founder

The Apostolic Prefect founded in 1910 the Order of Nuns Oblate Sisters of the Holy Family. However, the sisters revere P. Joseph came to SVD as its real founder, because Freinademetz had already collected the mid-1890s the first virgins - catechists and had written the rule for virgins " for them in 1904. From the Kries of virgins - catechists, the Freinademetz had formed the first of the sisters launched by Henning House Institute of the Oblate Sisters of the Holy Family recruited. was the first bishop appointed novice mistress Henninghaus the Holy Spirit Missionary sister Juliana, Emma Hansen (1876-1911), but in 1911 died of typhoid. Thereupon Odila Sr., was appointed Anna Maria Fasselt (1883-1952) for novices. She coined the first generation of the Oblate Sisters. Bishop Henninghaus instructed his confrere, Fr Peter Roeser 1862-1944) with the drafting of the Order of Constitutions. too, appointed the bishop. him the head of the community of sisters in Shantung (Shandong) and Kansu ( Gansu, China), and Taiwan, the sisters act under lepers, operate orphanages and make social work; currently, the Order has about 200 sisters.

First biographer of St. Joseph came to

Bishop Henning House published in 1920 in the publishing house of the Catholic Mission in Yenchowfu Yanzhou life image of the deceased in the odor of sanctity China missionary, Father Joseph came to, he had learned from twenty-two years of joint missionary work in the Apostolic Vicariate Yenchowfu know and appreciate. As before, his 648 -page biography, a classic among the now numerous biographies about Freinademetz.

Works

  • An impending storm on the mission of Südschantung ( Schenhien, 23 February 1896). In: Small Sacred Heart Messenger. 23 ( August 1896 ) No. 11, pp. 83-85, 109-110.
  • The recent persecution of Christians in Südschantung. ( Zining, July 22, 1896). In KlHJB. 24 (Nov. 1896), No. 2, pp. 12-15.
  • An ordained priest in Jentschoufu. (16 April 1906), in Divine Word Missionsbote 34 (October 1906), No. 1, pp. 6-7.
  • New Year greeting to the benefactors of the mission in Südschantung. In: Divine Word Missionsbote. 34 ( February 1907 ), No. 5, pp. 69-71.
  • Speech by the Right Reverend Bishop Henning mission house on the catholics in Wurzburg, on August 27, 1907 In: . Steyler Missionsbote. 35 ( March 1908 ), No. 6, pp. 86-90.
  • P. Joseph Freinademetz . Memorial word. In: Divine Word Missionsbote. 35 ( April 1908 ) No. 7, pp. 103-108.
  • New Year greeting to the benefactors of the mission in Südschantung. In: Divine Word Missionsbote. 36 ( Feb. 1909), No. 5, pp. 70-73.
  • On the question of self-support of the Chinese mission. In: Divine Word Missionsbote. 36 (Sept. 1909), No. 12, pp. 135-136.
  • To the pious memory of P. Rudolf Pieper. Memorial word. In: Divine Word Missionsbote. 37 (1909 /10) No. 2 (November), pp. 23-25 ​​.
  • New Year greeting to the benefactors of the mission in Südschantung. In: Divine Word Missionsbote. 37 (1909 /10) No. 5, February, pp. 69-73, 86-87.
  • Chinese Revolution and the Catholic mission in South Shantung. In: Divine Word Missionsbote 39 ( April 1912 ) No. 7, 107-108.
  • P. Joseph came: His life and work. At the same time contributions to the history of the Mission South Shantung. , From Aug. Henninghaus SVD Apostol. Vicar of South Shantung, publisher of the Catholic Mission, Yenchowfu 1920, 2nd edition. 1926. 648 S.
  • Requirements for a missionary. in: verb S.V.D. 2/4 (1960) 387-390.
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