Liborius Wagner in 1593 as the son of a master tailor and see people Sybille Paul Wagner in Mühlhausen and baptized in the local Lutheran church. He attended the Latin school of his native city and then the gymnasium in Gotha. 1617 he graduated from the University of Strasbourg the title of Magister. In 1621 he went to Würzburg. There he joined the Catholic Church, studied theology and prepared by the Jesuits at St. Kilian seminar conducted prior to the priesthood. On Holy Saturday 1625 he was ordained in Würzburg. His first job was as a chaplain in Hard home, then part of the diocese Würzburg belonged. 1625 he took over the parish of Old Minster with the Filialort Sulzdorf. The pastoral care there was difficult. Pfarrort in itself only a few families who remained Catholic, the people of Sulzdorf altogether. But he was a pastor for all, including Protestants, used and he fought for them.
His martyrdom
raged in Germany at the time of the "Thirty Years War." The Swedes invaded in 1631 before rapidly in the diocese. The village of Old Mr. Munster commanded a company formed by German mercenaries. He was a liberal Catholic priest already not good, but now he believed it all to have in your hand. Liborius Wagner was not sure of his life, paralyzed his pastoral work. He had to flee, but was hiding in the nearby kingdom's house. From there, he tried in vain to his parish to connect. In early December he was arrested half-naked, tied to a horse, and after Schonungen Mainberg and dragged there for five days with the most brutal practices at the time of war craft available in Swedish Sold German soldiers tortured unspeakably. Hardly play back the Acts have been given by witnesses for the record. Had they first penetrated to this torture for the release of his few belongings, so you now demanded the withdrawal of his faith. He remained under all the tortures steadfast and called for credible report again and again: "I live, suffer and die Pontifical Catholic." After all, his tortured body was killed on the main mountain meadows between Main and Schonungen by a sword blow. Liborius Wagner died a martyr of the faith and conscience.
disfigured beyond recognition and threw the battered corpse of the torturers in the Main. 1632 fishermen pulled him from the river and buried him secretly for fear on the spot. After deduction of Sweden, in 1634 he transferred to the chapel to Mainberg and 1637 buried in the church of the Augustinian Canons pin heath field. This is the Prior in this celebration sermon preserved. Following the lifting of the pin and demolition of the church in 1805 Geb3eine their resting place in the village church heath field.
1931 röffnet the beatification process. The beatification ceremony in St. Peter's in Rome was by Pope Paul VI. to 24 Established in March 1974.
Its importance
Liborius Wagner has his faith in the toughest conditions known to the public and sacrificed his life in terrible agony. He was deeply moved by the truth of his faith and stuck to his conscience. Liborius Wagner through his priestly ministry, the reform of the Catholic Church, the Reformation and led to the Council of Trent was initiated to realize tried. And he sought as a scholar and yet easier to renew a minister in the pastoral village of the foundations of the church from the spirit of the Council.
Liborius Wagner wanted the Pope to stay faithful until death. He seems to have been the choice of the Petrine Office is an issue of conscience to be. Not because he was a supreme coordination office in the church to be useful, he wanted to "suffer and die pope." He has instead defended by his death, the managing office of the pope as an essential element of his faith.
Liborius Wagner "the tension between top down and endured, even suffered through a formal, but he has not bypassed.
Liborius Wagner has worked for the Protestant members of his community and has become a time of war between the Christian denominations to witness cooperation between the churches in Germany.
Liborius Wagner was the village priest and pastor who toiled diligently and yet carry the cross of the failure had to. His sense of responsibility prevented him to be put in danger and to safety. Forcibly separated from his community, he longed for her. The tests included, together with her again, led to his violent death.
Liborius Wagner is still a religious and ecclesiastical uncertain time, a great sign. Through his beatification It is widely visible.
Dr. John Meise
