Blessing for wine: celebrate tradition and hope in Frauenberg

Blessing for wine: celebrate tradition and hope in Frauenberg

Frauenberg, Österreich - In Graz, a special service took place in the pilgrimage church of Frauenberg on Friday, led by the Graz diocesan bishop Wilhelm Krautwaschl. On the occasion of the festive day of the apostle and evangelist Johannes, he blessed the Styrian "Johanneswein" and other wines. This tradition, which continued the Episcopal Guest Administration Schloss Seggau and the Landesweinut Silberberg, also attracts prominent guests, including the oldland captain Hermann Schützenhöfer, the mayor of Leibnitz Michael Schumacher and the Styrian wine queen Marlene Niederl. href = "https://www.kathpress.at/goto/melde/2436391/bischof-krautwaschl-Segnet-steirischen-johanneswein"> kathpress.at , the Bishop recalled that Johannes should once be killed with poisoned wine, which failed. "In the blessed Johanneswein, we make this love of God aware of ourselves," said Krautwaschl. This tradition, in which wine is blessed, drunk and enjoyed, testifies to the greatness of creation.

After the service, a wine tasting took place in the newly built Seggau cellar of the Silberberg wine school. Experts announced that the new wine vintage should be particularly good, although the harvest in the previous year was around a third less. This centuries -old tradition of the Johannes wine blessing is kept alive in many Styrian parishes and moves together every year for the celebration to pour the blessed wine into their barrels, which is then consumed in the course of the year.

literary connection to tradition

The beneficial event in Graz can also be linked to an important literary work: "The Ackermann from Bohemia" by Johannes von Tepl, which was created around 1401. In this pointed dialogue between a farmer and death, the author addresses basic questions of life and morality. These considerations could be seen as a kind of mental reflection on the importance of life and culinary enjoyment, as the wine blessing embodies. The work is considered one of the most influential of late medieval German literature and also reflects an idea that is preserved by blessed wine and community in church services, as is the case with the Are in the foreground divine.