Abraham a Sancta Clara

Abraham a Sancta Clara (July 2, 1644-December 1, 1709), Austrian divine, was born at Kreenheinstetten, near Messkirch. His lay name was Johann Ulrich Megerle. {not to be confused with his uncle Abraham Megerle, composer (1607-1680)} Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ... is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. ... , Kreenheinstetten (municipality Leibertingen) is a village located in the district of Sigmaringen (Baden-Württemberg) in Germany. ... Meßkirch is a town in the Sigmaringen district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...

In 1662 he joined the Catholic order of Discalced Augustinians, and assumed the religious name by which he is known. In this order he rose step by step until he became prior provincialis and definitor of his province. Events February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. ... Catholic religious orders are organizations of laity and/orclergy in the Roman Catholic Church who live under a common rule. ... The Augustinians, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430), are several Roman Catholic monastic orders and congregations of both men and women living according to a guide to religious life known as the Rule of Saint Augustine. ... A priory is qan ecclesistical circonscription beleonging to a prior. ... A DEFINITOR is, in Latin, he who defines. ...

Having early gained a great reputation for pulpit eloquence, he was appointed imperial court preacher at Vienna in 1669. For other uses of Ambo, see Ambo, Ethiopia, Kom Ombo, ambulance Ambo (band). ... Preacher is a term the for someone who preaches sermons or gives homilies. ... “Wien” redirects here. ... // Events Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary. ...

The people flocked to hear him, attracted by the force and homeliness of his language, the grotesqueness of his humour, and the impartial severity with which he lashed the follies of all classes of society and of the court in particular. In general he spoke as a man of the people, the predominating quality of his style being an overflowing and often coarse wit. There are, however, many passages in his sermons in which he rises to loftier thought and uses more dignified language. He died at Vienna on the 1st of December 1709.

In his published writings he displayed much the same qualities as in the pulpit. Perhaps the most favorable specimen of his style is his didactic novel entitled Judas der Erzschelm (4 vols., Salzburg, 1686-1695).

His works have been several times reproduced in whole or in part, though with many spurious interpolations. The best edition is that published in 21 vols. at Passau and Lindau (1835-1854). See Th. G von Karajan, Abraham a Sancta Clara (Vienna, 1867); Blanckenburg, Studien über die Sprache Abrahams a S. C. (Halle, 1897); Sexto, Abraham a S. C. (Sigmaringen, 1896); Schnell, Pater A. a S. C. (Munich, 1895); H Mareta, Über Judas d. Erzschelm (Vienna, 1875). Passau (Latin: Batavis or Batavia, also Passavium; Italian: Passavia; Czech: Pasov) is a town in Niederbayern, Eastern Bavaria, Germany, known also as the Dreiflüssestadt (City of Three Rivers), because the Danube River is joined there by the Inn River from the South, and the Ilz River coming out of... famous harbor entrance of Lindau reverse side of the old town hall of Lindau Lindau is a German city and an island in the eastern part of the Lake Constance, the Bodensee. ...

Statue of Abraham a Sancta Clara, outside the Imperial Palace, Vienna

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Works

• Der alte Hafen scheppert - 1672 - eLibrary Projekt ( - eLib - etxt in German)
• Österreichisches Deo Gratias - 1688 - eLibrary Projekt ( - eLib - etxt in German)
• Wunderlicher Traum von einem großen Narren-Nest - 1703 - eLibrary Projekt ( - eLib - etxt in German)

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References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition article "Abraham a Sancta Clara", a publication now in the public domain.