Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim

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Roman Catholic Church
DioceseTrent
SeeTrent
Appointed19 December 1834
Installed3 May 1835
Term ended3 December 1860
PredecessorFranz Xavier Luschin
SuccessorBenedetto Riccabona de Reinchenfels
Orders
Ordination27 July 1800
by Emmanuele Maria Thun
Consecration20 May 1832
by Bernhard Galura
RankBishop
Personal details
Born
Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim

(1777-04-15)15 April 1777
Bolzano, Holy Roman Empire
Died3 December 1860(1860-12-03) (aged 83)
Trento, Austrian Empire
Previous post(s)
  • Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen (1832-1834)
  • Titular Bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia (1832-1834)
Sainthood
Feast day3 December
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Beatified30 April 1995
Trento, Italy
by Pope John Paul II
AttributesEpiscopal attire

Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim (15 April 1777 - 3 December 1860) was an

Bishop of Trent from 1834 until his death. He was born to Austrians but was considered to be an Austro-Italian due to having been born in the Italian town of Bolzano.[1]

Venerable in 1968.[2]

Life

Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim was born on 15 April 1777 in

Emperor Ferdinand III had given the Tschiderer house a patent making them nobles in 1620.[4]
On his maternal side he was related to Joseph von Giovanelli zu Gerstburg und Hörtenberg (12 September 1784 - 14 September 1845) and to Ignaz von Giovanelli zu Gerstburg und Hörtenberg (5 April 1815 - 16 August 1889).

Johann was baptized moments after his birth at the Assumption church. He received his education from the

Collalbo
.

From 1800 to 1802 he spent time as an assistant priest and then travelled to

Sarentino - where he opened a small school - and then sent on 13 September 1819 as the new parish priest at Merano.[1][2]

On 26 October 1826 the Prince-Bishop Luschin appointed him as the cathedral canon and then on 26 December 1827 pro-vicar at Trento; on 24 February 1832 the

Emperor Francis I nominated him as the new Bishop of Trent - or prince-bishop.[1][3]
On 5 May 1835 he entered upon his office.

Bishop

Tschiderer spent his episcopate writing and preaching as well as teaching catechism. He devoted a considerable part of his revenues to the building and restoration of over 60 churches and to the purchase of books for the parsonages and chaplains' houses. He used the third centennial of the opening of the Council of Trent to promote religious revival through popular pastoral initiatives. His charitable outreach to the poor and the sick was carried so far that he was often left without much himself. He left his residence to the institution for the deaf and dumb at Trento and to the educational institute for seminarians that he had founded and was later named after him as the "Joanneum".[4] Tschiderer tended to the victims of cholera epidemics in 1836 and in 1855 as well as to those affected in a war in 1859; he intervened to prevent the 20 March 1848 uprising becoming a bloodbath and was hailed as a hero.[3] He tried to appeal to the Austrian forces to spare the lives of 21 members of the Franco-Italian forces who were captured but was denied so provided religious assistance and a solemn burial for them after their executions.[5] Tschiderer ordained as a priest Daniele Comboni in 1854. He promoted the Redemptorists and Jesuits in the region.

Tschiderer planned a pilgrimage to Rome in 1854 to commemorate the dogma of the Immaculate Conception but his ill health prevented him from doing so. He died during the evening of 3 December 1860 after suffering high fevers and being bedridden while also suffering from a heart ailment since 1859.

Anointing of the Sick prior to his death and a papal blessing from Pope Pius IX
.

Beatification

The beatification cause opened in an informative process in Trento from 1873 until 1877. His writings received theological approval on 16 April 1885;

Venerable
on 14 July 1968.

The miracle for beatification was investigated in 1908 and received C.O.R. validation on 27 September 1908. The medical board met and approved it decades later on 1 April 1992 as did theologians on 19 June 1992 and the

Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 3 December 1992. Pope John Paul II
approved this on 21 December 1992 and beatified Tschiderer in Trento before a crowd of 100 000 people.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Catholic Hierarchy - Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim". 2 December 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Blessed Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer". Saints SQPN. 11 October 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b Lins, Joseph. "Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 11 December 2021 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "Biographies of New Blesseds - 1995". EWTN. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  6. ^ a b c Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 120.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Books

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