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Father Joseph Kentenich (b. 16 November,〔According to the book “Die verborgenen Jahre” Kentenich was born on 16 November, but 18 November is his commemoration day〕 1885, Gymnich, Rhine Province; d. 15 September 1968 in Schönstatt) was a Pallottine priest and founder of the Schoenstatt Movement. He is also remembered as a theologian, educator and pioneer of a Catholic response to an array of modern issues, whose teachings underwent a series of challenges from political and ecclesiastical powers. He attempted to teach Christians how to live out their faith. Considered by many of those who came into contact with him to have been a saint, his cause for sainthood is currently at the diocesan level in the Diocese of Trier, pending the compilation of his writings and correspondences. == Biography == He was born November 16, 1885, in Gymnich, near Cologne,〔("The Founder: Fr. Joseph Kentenich", Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement )〕 and christened Peter Josef Kentenich November 19 at the parish church of St. Kuniberts. His mother was Katharina Kentenich, his father, Matthias Köp, a manager on a farm lived in Oberbolheim, where Katharina was one of the domestic staff. Peter Joseph was born in the house of his maternal grandparents, Anna Maria and Matthias Kentenich, where he spent the first years of his life.〔 From the end of 1891 until the second half of 1892 Joseph lived with his mother in Strassburg, where she worked as housekeeper for her elder brother, Peter Joseph, after his wife’s death on 25 December 1891. The boy attended a school there for a few months. After her brother re-married on 25 June 1892, Katharina and her son returned to Gymnich. Katharina had to look for a permanent job in order to support her child. Joseph Kentenich was sent to St. Vincent orphanage in Oberhausen on 12 April 1894. When he completed his schooling there on 23 September 1899, and was accepted into the Pallottine College in Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz.〔("Peter Joseph Kentenich's Childhood", paterkenternich.de )〕 He was ordained a priest on July 8, 1910.〔 Although he wished to become a missionary in Africa with the Pallottines, his health prevented him. In the first years of his pastoral ministry, he was Spiritual Director at the Pallottine Minor Seminary in Schoenstatt by the Rhine.〔 Fr. Kentenich was found inspiration in an article about the conversion of Bartolo Longo and the place of pilgrimage that had grown from the Marian shrine he had begun. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Kentenich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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