Leoba

Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim, German: Truthgeb (c. 700/710 in Wessex, England; † around 782 in Schornsheim ) was a missionary, a Benedictine nun and saint.

Leoba signifies love.

Life

Leoba was educated in the monastery of the Benedictine nuns of Wimborne ( Dorset ) and acquired an extensive literary and theological education, and the canon law with included. She then lived as a nun in the monasteries of Kent and Wessex. These monasteries supported the St. Boniface, with the Leoba was used. During his missionary work in the Frankish Empire

732/735 followed Leoba Boniface the Franks. Boniface made ​​her the abbess of the convent Tauberbischofsheim. They evangelized by the theological educating young girls. Also, this is supposed to have stopped to regular and intensive reading after the presentation of their biographers Rudolf of Fulda and held exaggerations of the nightly prayer service with the argument, including Suffer the attention when reading. For the same reason they have arranged an afternoon nap. At the court of Charlemagne it was a welcome guest, and was taken by the learned court society as a conversation partner because of their high education seriously and highly valued. Leoba died on the assigned Konigsgut Schornsheim after she recently had with her friend, wife of Charlemagne, Hildegard paid a visit to Aachen and adopted by announcing that they would not see again in this life. She was first in the east choir erected by Abbot Sturmi Collegiate Church of St. Salvator in the monastery of Fulda, buried, allegedly because they had not dared to make the arrangement of Boniface consequence to unite their and his remains in his own grave. After the establishment of the so-called Ratgar 's Basilica at the site of the foundation construction they had to be moved out of the area of ​​the east choir because of the Abbot Eigil of Fulda 818 led subsequent mounting of the Ostkrypta. 820 was carried out with the express permission of the competent as diocesan Archbishop of Mainz Haistulf the translation to the altar of St. Ignatius of Antioch in the south aisle, where she was buried along with the founding abbot Sturmi and has since visited by pilgrims and worshiped. So that is the official ritual worship of both " spiritual children " of Boniface was used. 836 (or 838 ), she was transferred on the initiative of Rabanus Maurus, who promoted her cult and included it in his Martyrology, in the Church of St. Peter in St. Peter Berg. Before 838, the last date of not mentioned by him translation on the Petersberg, Rudolf of Fulda wrote the Vita Leobae.

Legends

Aebbe, the mother of Leoba said to have been already old when she still wanted a child. In a dream she saw a bell rang in her belly. This is interpreted as a sign of their birth Liobas. Therefore, the Holy Leoba today is always represented with a bell in his hand. After Leoba had been brought up early in convent schools, she entered the convent itself. One night she had a dream of her mouth to get a red woolen thread. He was so long that she could barely wrap it into a ball. An elderly nun interpreted this dream as a sign of God's great love, which should continue to give Leoba. So she turned to Boniface with the mission of the Germans. There are also reports of Leoba that put a big storm and a storm on their prayer towards.

Worship

Leoba is patron saint of Tauberbischofsheim. In a ceremony in the Town Hall during the anniversary of the city in 2005, the saint was brought formally to the patron of the city. The Archbishop of Freiburg Robert Zollitsch signed the certificate of appointment in the presence of Mayor Wolfgang Vockel. The Benedictine Sisters of St. Leoba are a religious community founded in 1927, the Benedictines. In each year is held in honor of St. Leoba in Petersberg near Fulda Liobawoche instead. Highlights of this Festival are a procession with the relics of saints and a candlelight procession. In September 2007, death was the 1225th St. Leoba beside her grave, a new branch of the Benedictines of St.. Leoba founded.

Remembrance

The Protestant and Roman Catholic day of remembrance of the saints is September 28, the day on which their remains were reburied in the mountain church of St. Peter in Peter Berg.

Representation

The Holy Leoba is represented in Christian art usually in the habit of the Benedictines. As attributes she wears a bell or a gospel book ( as a symbol of missionary activity ), as well as the crosier as a sign of their dignity as abbess. Sometimes you can also find representations of the Holy Leoba with a red ball of wool or a wool thread. Sometimes the hl is. Leoba also shown during breastfeeding of the storm.

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