Quiet place of study with a view of St Peter's
In the crypt of the German church of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome lie 460 Austro-Hungarian soldiers from the First World War. It is a special kind of memorial. The remains were brought there from Campo Verano by Rector Hudal in 1937 and took on a pronouncedly Greater German significance after the Anschluss in 1938.
The lectures from the conference "Benedictines as Scholars", which took place in St Peter's in Salzburg in 2018, have now been published by EOS, edited by Andreas Sohn (Paris).
Prof. Dr Rainald Becker (Augsburg) and Dr Christof Botzenhart (Munich) have written a high-profile part of recent history, namely the history of the prime ministers since the end of the First World War. There are 18 personalities (prime ministers without -*/innen) whose biographies and understanding of office are presented. It also shows the development of the Free State from an agrarian culture to a hypermodern state with all its advantages and risks.
The Paderborn Professor of Ancient Church History and Patrology Hubertus R. Drobner has published a truly epoch-making work on the chronology of Augustine's sermons: 1,491 pages in 2 volumes for 326 euros. Drobner, who has been translating Augustine's sermons into German for many years (see here), knows his stuff.
The X. Ebstorf Colloquium 2013 on the Lüneburg monasteries (and beyond) saw the light of day in 2022. The volume, edited by Wolfgang Brandis and Hans-Walter Stork, is highly informative and contains numerous excellent illustrations.
Jobst Knigge, who will soon be giving a Görres lecture, has published the book "Rome unterm Hakenkreuz. Life under German occupation 1943/44" on the online platform Zenodo. In it, the Campo Santo Teutonico is also mentioned in several places - in connection with Mons. Hugh O'Flaherty.
An inconspicuous Vatican publication with the curious title "Souvenirs de Babel" is worthy of attention because it reproduces several dozen historical photographs of the exterior and interior of the Vatican library and archives, albeit deliberately in such an unfavourable position that they cannot be reproduced.
The news about the visit of Augsburg Bishop Bertram Meier to the graves of the Ulma family in Markowa (Poland) is an occasion to draw attention to a book about the Ulma family. During the Second World War, the Ulma family hid Jews in their home for years, even though it was punishable by death. This could not remain hidden, and so they were denounced to the Nazis.
The papers presented at the conference on "Martyrdom in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", which took place at the RIGG in February 2019, have been published by Aschendforff Verlag in the series "Koinonia - Oriens" as a 57th volume. The volume is edited by Peter Bruns (Bamberg), Thomas Kremer (Eichstätt) and Andreas Weckwerth (Eichstätt) and contains 18 essays (here the content).
Father Pius Engelbert, former abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Gerleve and for a long time professor of church history in Rome, writes about the new book by Teresa Lohr "Die Kirche Santa Maria della Pietà am Campo Santo Teutonico zwischen Historismus und Zweitem Vatikanischen Konzil":
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