Yolanda of Vianden

Yolanda of Vianden ( * ca 1231 Castle Vianden, † December 17, 1283 in Marienthal ) was prioress of the convent of Marienthal and is venerated as blessed in her home today.

Life

Yolanda was born as the daughter of Count Henry I and Margaret Courtenay at Château de Vianden ( Luxembourg ). When she than nine years of visiting her aunt, the abbess of Salines, she wants to stay with her in the convent. On the recommendation of Walther Meis Petersburg, the Prior of the Dominicans in Trier, they will later enter the Dominican convent of Marienthal. Parents who want to marry Yolanda with Walram II of Monschau, are against Marienthal, since this does not appear befitting them. Therefore, they lock Yolanda castle on a beautiful corners. The battle rages in the family for several years, until the parents in 1248 they finally let her go to Marienthal. There they will remain for 35 years. You will prioress, drives the construction of the monastery played a decisive role, leaving a five-aisled church with 50 meters length and 35 meters width build. When her father dies, her mother also passes the convent of Marienthal.

Afterlife

After the monastery abolished in 1783 and 1823 and the stones were used as building material, the historian Auguste Neyen barg on December 12, 1882 Yolanda's skull. He brought him to Epenay, after which he went to the Dominican Sisters in Luxembourg and in 1932 the White Fathers, who had bought and restored in 1890 Marienthal. 1974, after the White Fathers Marienthal had left again, the relic arrived in Vianden. A 1996 manufactured reliquary located in the Trinitarian Vianden. From people Yolanda was worshiped as Blessed.

In the written against 1293 of the Dominican Hermann von Veldenz Codex Mariendalensis, a parchment manuscript, which was considered lost again and was found again on 6 November 1999 on the Ansembourg by Guy Berg, in almost 6000 Middle High German couplet verses their lives is described.