José Clemente Maurer
Josef Clemens Cardinal Maurer C.Ss.R. ( born March 13, 1900 in Nailsworth, Saar, † June 27, 1990 in Sucre, Bolivia) was Archbishop of Sucre.
Life
Josef Clemens Maurer was the youngest child of the miner Peter Maurer (1855-1923) and his second wife, Angela, nee Clemens. In poor families born, it was the early desire of pious parents, that the youngest member of the family should become a priest.
The family had contact with the Redemptorist monastery in Lorraine Téterchen; the Father himself where he took part in a retreat. Josef Clemens ' older brother Peter was recording in 1910 and went to Téterchen Bertigny to Switzerland later. Josef Clemens traveled in 1912, the day after his first communion, also after Bertigny. He remained there until graduation, he entered the religious house in Upper Alsace in Mulhouse soldiers. His vows he put on 10 September 1921 in Trois Epis in Alsace from, perpetual profession was on September 19, 1924.
In Echternach in Luxembourg Maurer studied philosophy and Catholic theology and received there on September 19, 1925, the sacrament of Holy Orders. In 1926 he was sent as a missionary to Bolivia. His mission led Maurer initially on foot and horseback, in later years by jeep or by plane across the whole of Bolivia. In 1933, Josef Clemens Maurer Superior of the Monastery of San Juan de Dios in La Paz in April 1938, he founded the monastery of San Martin himself in Potosí. From 1939 to 1944 he served as superior and pastor in Tupiza. On March 23, 1944 Mason was appointed provincial of his order in the Vice Province of Bolivia, the then Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia involved. After Mason had visitiert all of its 21 monasteries in the far-flung province, he flew in February 1950 after reporting to Rome. There, Pope Pius XII. Maurer announce that he would make him the Titular Bishop of Cea and auxiliary bishop in La Paz. Mason refused at first, then agreed but so Pius XII. appointed him on March 1, 1950 in the above-mentioned offices. He received his episcopal consecration Adeodato Cardinal Giovanni Piazza OCD on April 19 of that year in Rome.
Already on October 27, 1951 he received the news that he had been Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia 's oldest diocese, appointed. The local seminary was destroyed by an earthquake in 1948; many houses and churches were in a dismal state. Social unrest, which led to the revolution of 1952, were added. Again Maurer exchanged the bishopric with the saddle and rode through the towns and villages of his diocese. The emergency in Bolivia led the Catholic priest in Maurer's home town of Nailsworth in 1959 to initiate a Bolivia help in the diocese of Trier. They became the nucleus for the church 's Fund Adveniat. As a symbol of this partnership, a replica of the Trier Market Cross was erected on the market square of Sucre.
On June 26, 1967 took him by Pope Paul VI. as cardinal priest with the titular church of the Most Holy Redeemer e Sant'Alfonso in Via Merulana in the College of Cardinals.
In Bolivia, was Mason's concern especially the Indians. All presidents of the country since the early 1950s, asked Cardinal Maurer mediation in crisis situations. Here, the Cardinal kept his distance to the governments and so retained the respect of the common people. Cardinal Maurer founded a settlement factory in Sucre, as the Fundación Cardenal Maurer bears his name, and promoted the social housing of the poor. From 1971 to 1989 263 single-family homes for Indios were built by the factory.
Pope John Paul II adopted on 30 November 1983 the argument put forward on grounds of age resignation of an 83 -year-olds. The fact that he stayed so long on the set in the Codex Iuris Canonici limit of the 75th year in office beyond, can be explained for his work here as much appreciated by the Popes.
On the morning of June 27, 1990, the Cardinal died; 90,000 people took leave of the bier of the dead.
Appreciation
1951 Maurer was taken on the proposal of the French Prime Minister Robert Schuman in the Légion d' honneur; In 1955 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with Star, and later with Star and Sash. In 1967, José Clemente Maurer by Pope Paul VI. appointed cardinal. He was the first cardinal of Bolivia. His home town of Nailsworth appointed Cardinal Maurer in 1967 an honorary citizen; He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Saarland mid July 1977 from the hands of Prime Minister Dr. Franz -Josef Röder. The University of La Paz gave Cardinal Maurer in 1975 an honorary doctorate; In the same year he was awarded the honorary canon of the Cathedral of Trier. The State of Bolivia honored him with its highest honor.
To continue the work of Cardinal Maurer, (the former secretary to Cardinal on his trips to Germany and husband of the great-niece of Cardinal Hildegard Schmidt) was cross in Nailsworth founded on November 3, 1994 at the Holy Monastery of the Cardinal Mason society at the initiative of Arthur Schmidt. The founding board was composed of the former mayor Rudolf Müller, publisher Herbert SA Blaes, the former publisher Heinz Balzert Dechant Willi Heckmann, master baker Klaus Konrad, bank director Rüdiger Sutor and Arthur Schmidt as Chairman. After the sudden death of its founding chairman Arthur Schmidt of Draper Hans -Walter Bremerich was elected as the new Chairman of the Company. Its work is supported by the company's Father Otto Strauss, which the cardinal entrusted the management of the settlement work in April 1990, shortly before his death. As a foundation to this work constituted under the name of " Fundación Cardenal Maurer ". The task of Cardinal Mason society is the promotion of religious and social legacy of Cardinal in collaboration with the Fundación Cardenal Maurer in Bolivia. His hometown Nailsworth committed in 2000 the 100th anniversary of honorary citizen with four ten-day celebrations.
Gallery
- Josef Clemens Maurer in Bonn, 1960