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JOHANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS SCHENK, MONK - 25 NOVEMBER

 

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JOHANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS SCHENK, MONK

Johannes Chrysostomus Schenk was a Capuchin monk in the Delsberg (Delémont) monastery in the Swiss canton of Bern. His parents were Count Albert Johann Schenk von Castell and his wife Countess Anna Barbara Breiten-Landenberg.

Inclined from childhood to the purest piety, he was determined to become a Capuchin, to which his parents finally gave their consent. 

Accepted into the Order at Altdorf, he was sent by his provincial to Rheinfelden in 1601, where he passed the probationary year. When, after taking his vows, he was supposed to study philosophy and theology, he preferred to live in seclusion, and only out of obedience was he ordained a priest. 

Having distinguished himself as a monastic by obedience, prayer, meditation, purity of his whole life and conduct, he was sent by his superiors to Freiburg in Breisgau, where he became master of novices. Also in Enfisheim (Alsace) he did a lot of good as a master of novices. At the time he had become superior of the monastery in Delsberg, the plague broke out. He predicted that four confreres in the monastery would fall ill and three of them would die, including himself. He did indeed die of the plague on November 25, 1634. His tomb receives visits from many devout believers. His epitaph ascribes miracles to him. 

The Calendar of the Third Order* also mentions him; it is related in that source that the miraculous Infant Jesus venerated by the Capuchin nuns in Salzburg was introduced by him, since he had a particular devotion  to the holy Infant. (Burg.)

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations


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