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Metten Abbey, the Glossary

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766 establishments
8th-century establishments in Germany
Buildings and structures in Lower Bavaria
Deggendorf (district)
Religious buildings and structures completed in the 760s

Abbot

Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions.

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Aloys Fischer

Aloys Fischer (10 April 1880 – 23 November 1937) was a German educationalist and worked on the foundations of a modern theory of education.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is an independent public institution, located in Munich.

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Bavarian Congregation

The Bavarian Congregation is a congregation of the Benedictine Confederation consisting (with one exception) of monasteries in Bavaria, Germany.

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Bavarian Forest

The village of Zell in the Bavarian Forest The Bavarian Forest (Bayerischer Wald or Bayerwald; Boarischa Woid) is a wooded, low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany that is about 100 kilometres long.

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Benedictine Confederation

The Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict (Confœderatio Benedictina Ordinis Sancti Benedicti) is the international governing body of the Order of Saint Benedict.

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The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Boniface Wimmer

Archabbot Boniface Wimmer, (1809–1887) was a German monk who in 1846 founded the first Benedictine monastery in the United States, Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, forty miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University

The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University are two closely related private, Benedictine liberal arts colleges in Minnesota.

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Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium

The Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium is an important multilingual collection of Eastern Christian texts with over 600 volumes published since its foundation in 1903 by the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. The present Secretary General is Andrea Schmidt of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Deggendorf

Deggendorf is a town in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the Deggendorf district. Metten Abbey and Deggendorf are Deggendorf (district).

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Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (Dicasterium de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum) is the dicastery (from law-court, from δικαστής, 'judge, juror') of the Roman Curia that handles most affairs relating to liturgical practices of the Latin Church as distinct from the Eastern Catholic Churches and also some technical matters relating to the sacraments.

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Ephrem the Syrian

Ephrem the Syrian, also known as Saint Ephrem, Saint Ephraim, Ephrem of Edessa or Aprem of Nisibis, was a prominent Christian theologian and writer who is revered as one of the most notable hymnographers of Eastern Christianity.

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Freising

Freising is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000.

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Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch

The Blessed Gamelbert was a Christian priest, who worked in the 8th century in what is now Stephansposching, Bavaria, Germany.

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Georg Dehio

Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio (22 November 1850 in Reval (now Tallinn), Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 21 March 1932 in Tübingen), was a Baltic German art historian.

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Gerhard (bishop of Passau)

Bistumswappen of Passau. Gerhard (fl 946) was from 932 to 946 the 14th Bishop of Passau.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gymnasium (Germany)

Gymnasium (German plural: Gymnasien), in the German education system, is the most advanced and highest of the three types of German secondary schools, the others being Hauptschule (lowest) and Realschule (middle).

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Karl von Spreti

Karl Borromäus Maria Heinrich Graf von Spreti (21 May 1907 – 5 April 1970) was a German diplomat.

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Karl-Josef Rauber

Karl-Josef Rauber (11 April 1934 – 26 March 2023) was a German prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an apostolic nuncio from 1982 until his retirement in 2009.

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List of monarchs of Bavaria

The following is a list of monarchs during the history of Bavaria.

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Ludwig I of Bavaria

Ludwig I or Louis I (Ludwig I.; 25 August 1786 – 29 February 1868) was King of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states.

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Metten

Metten is a municipality in the district of Deggendorf in Bavaria in Germany. Metten Abbey and Metten are Deggendorf (district).

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Paul Augustin Mayer

Paul Augustin Mayer, OSB (23 May 1911 – 30 April 2010) was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Saint Benedict Medal

The Saint Benedict Medal is a Christian sacramental medal containing symbols and text related to the life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, used by Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Western Orthodox, Anglicans and Methodists, in the Benedictine Christian tradition, especially votarists and oblates.

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Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville

Saint John's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Collegeville Township, Minnesota, United States, affiliated with the American-Cassinese Congregation.

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Saint Vincent Archabbey

Saint Vincent Archabbey is a Benedictine monastery in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the city of Latrobe.

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Salzburg

Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria.

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Syriac language

The Syriac language (Leššānā Suryāyā), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (Urhāyā), the Mesopotamian language (Nahrāyā) and Aramaic (Aramāyā), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is the academic term used to refer to the dialect's literary usage and standardization, distinguishing it from other Aramaic dialects also known as 'Syriac' or 'Syrian'.

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Teacher

A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.

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Theology

Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.

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Vade retro satana

Vade retro satana (Ecclesiastical Latin for "Begone, Satan", "Step back, Satan", or "Back off, Satan"; alternatively spelt vade retro satanas, or sathanas), is a medieval Western Christian formula for exorcism, recorded in a 1415 manuscript found in the Benedictine Metten Abbey in Bavaria; its origin is traditionally associated with the Benedictines.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metten_Abbey

Also known as St. Michael's Abbey, Metten.

Metten Abbey, the Glossary

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766 establishments

8th-century establishments in Germany

Buildings and structures in Lower Bavaria

Deggendorf (district)

Religious buildings and structures completed in the 760s

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