Saint Nicholas of Flue, patron of peace and Switzerland.pptx

a Swiss hermit and ascetic, called Brother Klaus. A farmer, military leader, member of the assembly, councillor, judge and mystic,

1. SAINT NICHOLAS OF FLUE ( 1417-1487 ) patron of Switzerland and of peace

2. Born 21 March, 1417, on the Fl ü eli, a fertile plateau near Sachseln, Canton Obwalden, Switzerland;

3. He was baptized in Kerns

4. He was the oldest son of pious, well-to-do peasants -He had two brothers named Eglof and Peter

5. from his earliest youth was fond of prayer, practiced mortification, and conscientiously performed the labor of a peasant boy

6. At the age of 21 he entered the army and took part in the battle of Ragaz in 1446. Probably he fought in the battles near the Etzel in 1439, near Baar in the Canton of Zug in 1443, and assisted in the capture of Zürich in 1444.

7. Archduke Sigismund of Austria He took up arms again in the so-called Thurgau war against Archduke Sigismund of Austria in 1460.

8. It was due to his influence that the Dominican Convent St. Katharinental, whither many Austrians had fled after the capture of Diessenhofen, was not destroyed by the Swiss confederates

9. Heeding the advice of his parents he married, about the age of twenty-five, a pious girl from Sachseln, named Dorothy Wyssling, who bore him five sons and five daughters.

10. His youngest son, Nicholas, born in 1467, became a priest and a doctor of theology

11. Though averse to worldly dignities, he was elected cantonal councillor and judge. The fact that in 1462 he was one of five arbiters appointed to settle a dispute between the parish of Stans and the monastery of Engelberg, shows the esteem in which he was held

12. After living about twenty-five years in wedlock he listened to an inspiration of God and with the consent of his wife left his family on 16 October, 1467, to live as a hermit. At first he intended to go to a foreign country,

13. when he came into the neighborhood of Basle, a divine inspiration ordered him to take up his abode in the Ranft, a valley along the Melcha, about an hour's walk from Sachseln

14. Here, known as "Brother Klaus", he abode over twenty years, without taking any bodily food or drink, as was established through a careful investigation, made by the civil as well as the ecclesiastical authorities of his times. He wore neither shoes nor cap, and even in winter was clad merely in a hermit's gown

15. At first he lived in a narrow hut, which he himself had built with branches and leaves, and came daily to Mass either at Sachseln or at Kerns.

16. In 1468 he saved the town of Sarnen from a conflagration by his prayers and the sign of the cross. God also favored him with numerous visions and the gift of prophecy.

17. ONE OF THE VISIONS OF BROTHER KLAUS

18. Nicholas described his vision of the Holy Face at the center of a circle with the tips of three swords touching the two eyes and mouth

19. Distinguished persons from nearly every country of Europe came to him for counsel in matters of the utmost importance.

20. Early in 1469 the civil authorities built a cell and a chapel for him, and on 29 April of the same year the chapel was dedicated by the vicar-general of Constance, Thomas, Bishop of Ascalon. In 1479 a chaplain was put in charge of the chapel, and thenceforth Nicholas always remained in the Ranft

21. When in 1480 delegates of the Swiss confederates assembled at Stans to settle their differences, and civil war seemed inevitable, Henry Imgrund, the pastor of Stans, hastened to Nicholas, begging him to prevent the shedding of blood.

22. The priest returned to the delegates with the hermit's counsels and propositions, and civil war was averted

23. died 21 March, 1487, as a recluse in a neighboring ravine, called Ranft.

24. Biographies on Nicholas of Flüe - The abbot of the Einsiedeln abbey Albrecht von Bonstetten wrote the first known report on his life in 1479, while Nicholas still alive

25. A second biography was written a year after Nicholas died by Heinrich of Gundelfingen . It was called Historia Nicholae unterwadensis eremitae and presented to the authorities of Lucerne

26. The Government of Obwalden requested from Heinrich Wölflin, a noted historian of the time to write a biography of Niklaus von Flüe in 1493

27. My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you. My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you. My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you.

28. Nicholas was beatified by Pope Clement IX in 1669. Numerous pilgrims visit the chapel near the church of Sachseln, where his relics are preserved.

29. HIS CANONIZATION TOOK PLACE ON 15 MAY 1947 BY Pope Pius XII

30. In June 1984, Pope John Paul II held a mass in Fl ü eli Ranft and a prayer at the tomb of Niklaus von Fl ü e in Sachseln during his visit to Switzerland

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