Bernard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Bernhard II of Baden ( * 1428/1429 in Baden -Baden, † July 15, 1458 in Moncalieri near Turin / Italy ), the second son of Margrave Jacob was I of Baden and his wife Catherine of Lorraine. He was born in the late twenties of the 15th century to the Baden-Baden Baden Schloss Hohenschwangau. His exact birth date is unknown. He is a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Bernhard II of Baden grew up in a religiously influenced parents' house. His father, for example, prompted the construction of the monastery Fremersberg and the further expansion of Baden -Baden Collegiate.
Bernhard II received a careful education which should prepare him for his future role as sovereign. In the northern Margraviate he should take over various responsibilities and beyond Margrave in Pforzheim, Eberstein and Besigheim.
About Bernard II older brother Charles I, the Margrave house with the Habsburg imperial family was related. Charles I had Catherine of Austria, a sister of Emperor Frederick III married. ,. This fact should lead him to the court of the Emperor. First, however, he helped his uncle René of Anjou in wars in northern Italy. According to contemporary sources, he fought there clever and brave. After the death of his father in 1453 he returned to Baden, where he agreed with his brother to give up his own dominion, " mod our and named, tribal and furstentumes the marggraveschaft Baden growth, Erens and -interest 's sake ." He was then, despite his young age, the personal envoy of Frederick III.
Bernhard II recognized a number of grievances of his time, trying to alleviate hardship and poverty an example by leaving the bulk of his income to the needy. In addition, he fell to extreme devoutness. Even during his lifetime he impressed so his contemporaries.
In the wake of the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, the Habsburg royal family was planning a crusade against the expanding Ottoman Empire. Bernhard II was sent to the European royal houses, to promote this project. In the northern Italian Moncalieri he died during his journey on July 15, 1458 of the plague. Bernardo is very revered by many people of this region.
Aftereffect
His grave in St. Mary's Church of Moncalieri quickly became a place of pilgrimage of Christian believers. Since allegedly took place many miraculous healings at his grave in the collegiate Collegiate Church in Moncalieri, Bernhard II was beatified in 1769. On this occasion granted Margrave Georg August Simpert the contract to build the Bernhardusbrunnens in Rastatt. The canonization as the next step was the Margrave probably too expensive.
After his beatification, the Catholic Margraviate of Baden -Baden has it chosen as the patron saint and celebrated this event on July 24, 1770; the Archdiocese of Freiburg worshiped him today as the patron saint. There is also supposed to have taken place at least a miracle. His feast day is July 15.
His great-niece, Sibylle von Baden, married to Count Philip III. of Hanau- Lichtenberg, donated a high altar in the church of St. Nicholas in Babenhausen (Hessen) on which it is presented on its left wing on the inside. Efforts are being made to canonization. The motion was debated on 17 June 2011 in Catholic public after Archbishop Robert Zollitsch had launched a public appeal through the Official Journal of the archdiocese on May 16, 2011. Here to November 2012 created a document over the life of the saint, which are now being examined by the Congregation of Saints in the Vatican and the Pope presented for decision.