Castulus

The Holy Kastulus, also Castulus, Kastulis, Catulus, bavarian Kastl, lived in the third century in Rome.

Life and Legend

Kastulus to (* 236-245; around 312 †) chamberlain of the Roman emperor Diocletian have been. According to legend, he was buried in Rome for his faith alive in the eponymous catacombs on the Via Labicana.

Relics

In the second half of the 8th century, probably 764-772, the monks Albin and Rhenobot brought the relics of St.. Kastulus from Rome to Moosburg an der Isar in the local Benedictine monastery. This monastery was responsible for the evangelization of the wood country, and the Hallertau. The area of the county Moosburg included here approximately the northern part of present-day district of Freising. This was the hl. Kastulus the patron saint of Hallertau and the patron saint of Moosburg. The relics of this Roman martyr of the 3rd century have influenced the history and significance of the town and monastery Moosburg sustainable. For centuries erroneously the year 827 as the date of Translatio ( " transfer " ) of the relics: Still in 1927 the festival " 1100 years Kastulus " was celebrated in Moosburg, came together to about 20,000 believers.

Since the transfer of the Kastulusmünster in Moosburg is also dedicated to St. Kastulus in a double patronage next to the Virgin Mary.

After laying the collegiate Moosburg the collegiate St. Martin to Landshut in 1598 also rests most of the relics of the saint since 1604 in the Landshut town parish and Kollegiatstiftskirche St. Martin and Kastulus.

Another relic of the saint, which had brought 1037 Walperich of Fahlenbach, maybe a follower of the Earl of Moosburg, from a cruise around the year, is located in the Church of St. Kastulus in the hamlet of St. Kastl in the district Pfaffenhofen.

Martyrdom, Reception

The martyrdom of St.. Kastulus is mapped onto four wooden reliefs of the high altar made ​​by Hans Leinberger in the years 1511-1541 in the choir of Kastulusmünsters in Moosburg an der Isar.

Place and church of Kastl (Upper Bavaria ) are also named after the martyr as the Church Svatý Haštal in the northeastern town Prague.

His widow Irene of Rome tended the wounded by arrows hl. Sebastian healthy.

Remembrance Day, patronage earth attribute

Name day of St.. Kastulus is March 26. He is worshiped already since late antiquity as the patron saint of farmers and herdsmen. He is invoked against lightning, water shortages, animal diseases and horse thieves.

In addition to the martyr's palm is his attribute of spades, he was buried alive.