Disibod

The Holy Disibod (Irish Disens ) (* 619, † 700) was an Irish monk and hermit. He was first mentioned in the 9th century in the Martyrology of Rabanus Maurus. Disibod founded the monastery Disibodenberg.

Life

Hildegard of Bingen wrote in 1170 a vita of St. Disibod. According to Hildegard, came Disibod 640, accompanied by his disciples Giswald, Clemens and Sallust, as a missionary to the Frankish Empire. There they were active in the Vosges and Ardennes until Disibod, passed through a dream, a hermitage was built at the confluence of the Nahe and Glan, which later became the monastery Disibodenberg arose. In the Vita it says on the place of hermitage, " where his walking stick, stuck in the ground, turning green, where a white doe a source of fresh water from the earth and pawed at the confluence of two rivers. "

At the foot of the mountain near the found source Disibod built huts with his companions and they began with the proclamation of the Gospel among the heathen population. There was also a baptistery at the northeastern foot of Mt. As a wise, respected man of God he was died of a September 8 at the year 700 and was buried in his cell. His miraculous grave became a place of pilgrimage. It originated there multiple new churches and the body of the saint was reburied there in each case. For the first time this happened already 745 as St. Boniface, Bishop of Mainz, the grave Disibods visited and beisetzte his bones under the altar of the monastery church. Thus, the evangeliser was officially recognized as a saint by damaligem use.

1559 one has dissolved the monastery Disibodenberg during the Reformation. The relics of St. Disibods have been missing ever since.

The Disibiodenberg, the former domain of the saints, now belongs to the diocese of Speyer. There, St. Disibod one of the Diocese Saints and is listed with a not offered Memorial Day in the Diocesan calendar; formerly the memory fell on 8 September, today is July 8.

Swell

• Hildegard of Bingen, Vita S. Disibodi, in: Opera omnia ( Patrologia Latina 197), ed. by Charles Victor Daremberg / Friedrich Anton Reuss / Jacques Paul Migne, Paris 1882: Brothers Garnier, S. 1095-1116; German: Biography of the Holy Disibod, bishop and confessor in Dysemberg, Diocese of Mainz, Germany, written by Saint Hildegard ( Sponheim booklets 42), translated by Alfred Schwab, oO [ Burgsponheim ] 2009
• Magnus Jocham: Bavaria Sancta - Lives of the Saints and Blessed of the country Bayer, Munich 1892, Volume 1, pages 248-250; Complete scan of the contribution
• Christian Dieden: The Palatinate and Bavarian missionaries, Kaiserslautern, published by H. Zimmermann, 1888, pages 33 and 34