Nonnosus

Nonnosus or Nonosius (* 500, † around 532 ) is a Christian saint, in whose life since the 12th century merge two people, those of the abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Monte San Silvestre Soratte in northern Rome, and those of the Scanctus Nonnosus, Deacon Ecclesiae Tiburniensis, deacon in Molzbichl in Upper Carinthia.

The bones of the Nonnosus from Carinthia now preserved in the crypt of the Cathedral of Freising. According to popular belief, it is intended to help back pain, crawl through under the coffin with the remains. Nonnosus is revered as a saint against infirmities and hardships in school. The Catholic Memorial of Nonnosus is the 2nd of September.

While from an Italian cult of St. Nonnosus nothing is known before the 17th century, is in Upper Carinthia in the area around Spittal an der Drau several churches occupied Nonnosuskult. The churches are in Molzbichl, in St. Peter in Holz at Lendorf in mountain in the Drava valley in Hermagor iG and the German-speaking island Bladen / Sappada. From St. Peter in the wood about a letter of indulgence of 1470 is obtained in which all those in the remission of sins is promised to visit at Christmas, on the third Bittag to Peter and Paul, on the day of St. Nonnosus and on Kirchweihtag the church and donate for their restoration. Among the places mentioned above the Nonnosusverehrung has Molzbichl, even in the 11th century as Munster ( Munstiûre ) denotes monastery and seat since the 8th century, a special significance. In the refectory of the church, the table part of the altar, a grave slab from the 6th century is immured, that matches a relic pit east of the early medieval high altar. This early Christian witness, so far the only native of this period inscription in Austria, mentions a deacon named Nonnosus, who died in 532. The Latin inscription reads: Hic re [ quies ] / ci (t ) servus Χρ [ ι ] ( στου ) / Nonnosus diac ( onus ) / qui vixit annos / p ( lus) m ( inus ) CIII obiit / IIII Non ( as) Septemb (res ) / et depositfiles (us) est in / hunc loco XIII Kal ( endas ) August ( ustas ) indict ( ione ) XI / tertio (anno ) post- cons ( ulatum ) / Lampadi et Ores / tis v ( irorum ) c ( larissimorum ) Here lies the servant of Christ, the deacon Nannosus, who lived about 103 years. He died on September 2, and was buried on July 20 at this place in the eleventh year of the indication, three years after the Consulate of the highly famous men Lampadius and Orestes.

The strength of the cult led apparently already in the early and high Middle Ages to several relics translations, which in wood or the translation to Freising under Bishop Nitker ( 1039-52 ) can be seen in the tombs of Molzbichl, St. Peter. Freising received 891 by the East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia first possession in the vicinity of the old Roman city Teurnia - Tiburnia lie within the environment Molzbichl and St. Peter.

From the 12th century an increasing identification of the Carinthian Nonnous with that of Soracte is assumed. That gave the Saints a magnificent new hagiographisches robe. In Carinthia, the deacon was elevated to bishop and was named Nonosius, which ultimately led to confusion with Saint Anastasius. In Italy, the Nonnosuskult experienced a new boom in the 17th century. The result of equating the two individuals are identical death dates of Nonnosus of S. Silvestro Abbey of Monte Soracte with that of the deacon in Molzbichl, the hagiographic state of knowledge about the Kärntern Nonnosus is exceptionally high, as the name, age, date of death, first translation and the are ordained degree known.

One of the Domherrenhäuser on the Freising Cathedral Hill was named as Nonnosushof after Nonnosus from Carinthia.

Nonnosus should not be with his contemporaries Nonnosos, who was a diplomat and historian, confused.

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