Vincent Pallotti
Vincenzo Pallotti ( German and Vincent Pallotti; * April 21, 1795 in Rome, † January 22, 1850 in Rome) was a Catholic priest and founder of the " Union of Catholic Apostolate " ( Unione Apostolatus Catholici UAC), which until 2003 as the international association of the faithful was ecclesiastically recognized. Within this association still emerged at the time of Pallotti 's sister community of the Catholic Apostolate and the Pallottiner, a society of apostolic life. Vincent Pallotti was on the centenary of his death (22 January 1950) by Pope Pius XII. beatified and on 20 January 1963, when the Second Vatican Council by Pope John XXIII. canonized. His feast and feast day is January 22.
Life
Vincenzo Pallotti was born on 21 April 1795 in Rome as the third of ten children and was baptized the next day in the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso. His father Pietro Paolo Pallotti was born in the Umbrian village of San Giorgio di Cascia (near Perugia), his mother Maria Maddalena De Rossi was born Roman. His childhood and adolescence were marked by the piety of the family and the conflict between his Catholic milieu and the emergent secular state.
On 10 July 1801, he received the Confirmation and First Communion 1805, connected with the then unusual privilege every day instead of just on Sundays and religious holidays at the communion participate. He attended school at the Roman Piaristen of San Pantaleo and then the Collegium, which was performed because of the suppression of the Jesuits in 1870 as a State Lyceum of seculars. He began in 1814 to study at the University of Rome La Sapienza in classical, modern and oriental languages , acquired in 1818 the Laurea in theology and philosophy, and then sided teaching duties as coach.
Already in 1815 he had over his confessor a vow to spend his life in chastity, poverty and obedience, the three monastic virtues. On September 20, 1817 he was ordained a deacon and on 16 May 1818, he received in the Lateran Basilica to the priesthood. He was involved in the arms - and youth ministry, and finally gave his scientific teaching on to accept the rectorate point of Spirito Santo dei Napoletani in Via Giulia in the quarter Regola and to devote himself entirely pastoral tasks and the renewal of religious life. He was in addition to his various initiatives in demand as a confessor in numerous parishes and even in houses of the Roman nobles and was established in 1827 as a Roman Spiritual with the religious care of the students at the Collegium and several other seminars, among others since 1833 at the Collegium urbanum entrusted.
In 1835 he called the Union of Catholic Apostolate ( Unione Apostolatus Catholici UAC) to life, in the people of all states of life (priests, religious and laity ) should devote apostolic tasks. The by Pope Gregory XVI. initially supported union, which received full recognition in 2003 by John Paul II, soon won many members among the Roman laity, in various monasteries and the clergy of the way up to the top of the church hierarchy.
Following the outbreak of cholera in 1837 Pallotti founded in a former dormitory in Borgo Sant'Agata dei Goti, Rome homes for orphaned and homeless girls. It became the starting point for the 1838 founded by Pallotti and 1935 by Pius XI. approved female branch of the Community ( Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate, Congreatio Sororum Apostolatus Catholici, religious symbol CSAC ).
Since 1891 occurred in a Mission College Community in Rome, a German women who had interest to go to the Pallotines transmitted Cameroon Mission. The new task soon made a new foundation in Germany is necessary, which in 1895 succeeded in Limburg an der Lahn. Soon it developed into its own community, which chose 1899 M. Felizitas Massenkeil to the first Superior General. This Missionary Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate ( religious symbol SAC) in 1964 recognized as a congregation of pontifical right; Today they have their Generalate in Rome.
1846 Vincent Pallotti founded the priesthood and brotherhood, which leads a life in community. The members dedicate themselves - without vows - God and promise of Community celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom, poverty, obedience, perseverance, the sharing and selfless service in the love of Christ.
Pope Pius IX. , Who refused the right to a Community " apostolate " of priests and laymen, the EC ( PSM Pia Societas Missionum, ) was in " Fromme Missionary Society " renamed. It was not until 1947, she was able to take her name " Society of the Catholic Apostolate " (Societas Apostolatus Catholici ) again. Your Generalate stands next to the church of San Salvatore in Onda, Rome, by St. Vincent Pallotti had been transferred where Pallotti also died.
Offices, schools and hospitals
The so-called Heart of Jesus Province covers Germany and Austria as well as the three Delegatures Spain, Croatia, and South Africa. In these countries, about 400 confreres are working.
Germany
The Pallottiner operate 21 offices: in Vallendar the Philosophical- Theological College Vallendar with a philosophical- theological and a nursing faculty and a youth training center house Wasserburg. At the University in Vallendar the Pallotti Institute and the Conference and Education Centre Forum Vincent Pallotti is also the German Pallottine Communities ( Pallottine as Research Group Research ) located whose focus is the study of the shape of the charism and the effect of history of St. Vincent Pallotti.
In Olpe is the Youth Education Centre Jugendhof. Pallottiner also entertain various guests, retreats and educational buildings, such as the Pallottihaus in Freising as a Christian home for education and therapy. The St Vincent Pallotti College, a private Catholic high school boy, in the Rhine river in Bonn, managed by the free sponsorship of the SAC, is - closed in 2016 - according to the school. In Bruchsal Pallottiner founded the St. Paul Home, also originally a pure boy boarding school, later with its own high school. This is now one of the school foundation of the archdiocese of Freiburg.
The Apostolate founded the Vincent Pallotti Hospital - in Bergisch Gladbach - Bensberg. It was later handed over the responsibility of St. Vincent Pallotti - Foundation, which was founded by the Catholic Apostolate. Also, this foundation took over the responsibility for the other bodies of the sisters: the retreat and education center Limburg, the Residential and nursing home St. Joseph House in Bergisch Gladbach Refrath, the nursing home house Felizitas in Limburg and the daycare St. Joseph in Bergisch Gladbach Refrath.
Switzerland
3 Offices: Provincial Leadership in Gossau, with high school Friedberg; St. Clement High School, Ebikon, retreat house Morschach and Pallottinerinnengemeinschaft in Niederuzwil.
Austria
Two branches: Education and Guest Houses Pallottihaus in Vienna and apostolate and guest house of John Schlößl in Salzburg.
Quotes
- "We are all bound to each other to help us to attain the sky. "
- " Are you looking for God, and you will find him. Find God in all things, and you will find him in everything. Seek him always, and you will always find him. "
- "We have to breathe in God and God exhale, radiate God's presence. "
- " Reason and experience prove that the good that is done sporadically, sparse, uncertain and of short duration and that even the most generous efforts of individual lead to anything big, if they are not united and ordered to a common goal. "
Works (selection)
- Francesco Moccia (Ed.): Opere Complete. Rome 1962-1997 (13 vols )
- Bruno Bayer ( eds.): Opere Complete Humanities. Rome 1995-2010 (8 vols )
- Bruno Bayer, Josef Zweifel (ed.): Selected Writings. 3rd edition Pallotti -Verlag, Friedberg 1999, ISBN 3-87614-050-1.
- Ansgar Faller (Ed. ): God, the infinite love (" Iddio, l' amore infinito "). Pallotti -Verlag, Friedberg 1981, ISBN 3-87614-041-2.
- Hunger and thirst for God. Thoughts for each day from the writings of the saints. Pallotti -Verlag, Friedberg 1988, ISBN 3-87614-054-4 (former title paths to God ).
- The basic rules of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate. Pallotti -Verlag, Friedberg 1987, ISBN 3-87614-051- X.