Theodosius Florentini
Theodosius Florentini OFM Cap (born 23 May 1808 In Müstair as Anton Crispin Florintöni, † February 15, 1865 in Heiden AR) was a Swiss Capuchin priest and social reformer.
Life
The son of Paul Florintöni and his wife Maria Anna, born Fall received his basic training at the Capuchins his hometown. Next he was Made in Bolzano, Stans, Baden in Aargau and Chur. At 17, he entered the novitiate of 1825 it became a Capuchin Order and was professed in 1826 for the religious name Theodosius. In 1830 he was ordained a priest in Sion. Until 1841 he worked in Baden as Novice Master, Guardian and as a teacher of philosophy and theology. After he was convicted in 1841 and reported as agitators at a popular uprising in Aargau in absentia, he spent several months on in Ribeauvillé in Alsace.
At Easter 1841 Father Theodosius went as running Father to Altdorf, where he took up the education. In 1844 he founded the Institute of Bernarda Home Gartner Teaching Sisters of the Holy Cross in Altdorf. A short time later, the community moved to Menzingen where the parent company was born. 1845 revealed the first five sisters from the profession and started in the schools of Menzingen and Galgenen to teach. Bernarda Gartner was home until her death in 1863, Mother Superior Menzingerstrasse sisters.
From 1845 to 1858 he worked as Hofpfarrer in Chur and unfolded from 1854 increased activity in parish missions, retreats, sermons and lectures. In 1850 he founded a small hospital in the house Planaterra in Chur. On 1 July 1852 he called next to the school in Menzingen Caritas in life, creating two focal points of orientation emerged. Teaching Sisters and the Sisters of Mercy were still together. 1856 was a separation and Florentini founded by Maria Theresia Scherer, the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross.
1857 to 1860 he was definitor the Swiss Capuchin Province in Chur, then Vicar General of the Diocese of Chur.
Florentini was buried in Chur's Hofkirche. On 15 February 1906, the remains were transferred to the monastery church Ingenbohl.
Importance
The versatile and restless Capuchin Father owes the Swiss Catholicism major initiatives: in 1856 the re-opening of the College Maria Hilf in Schwyz (now Canton School College Schwyz ) than boys boarding school, 1859, the founding of the " Books association for the Catholic Switzerland" and in 1863 the convening of the first Swiss Bishops' Conference. Permanent importance are his efforts to resolve the crisis in education in the school system to support women in sozialkaritativen tasks and to address the social problems of the industrial age.