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Peter Jost Stirnimann

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Additional Names

Additional Names	Name
Other Name	Pater Jost Muri

Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
Hans Jakob Stirnimann	12 Aug 1598	Barbara Bucher

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place	Description
Birth	25 Feb 1654	Etzenerlen, Luzern, Switzerland
Occupation	21 Mar 1673	Benedictine Abbey Muri	Monk
Death	28 Dec 1706	Muri, Aargau, Switzerland

Notes


Became monk Pater Jost (Jodocus) at the monistary Muri near Ruswil. Godparents were: Peter Meyer of Mittelarig & Elisabetha Heini of Unterarig. FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN Pater Jost Stirnimann (1654-17O6), Benediktiner der Abtei Muri The earliest well known order man of our family is Jost Stirnimann, monk of the Benediktiner-abbey Muri in the Aargau free office. Peter, like he with his baptism name (baptized on 25 February 1654 in the parish church in Buttisholz), perceived the light of the world in of oldest parent firm of our family in Rot in Ruswil as 3rd son of Hans-Jakob Stirnimann and Barbara Bucher. Of both brothers, Sebastian received, the older, the 160 Jucharten holding, fatherly farm in Rot, Hans, the younger, the farm inherited by uncle Peter Stirnimann in the adjoining Etzenerlen to the extent of 170 Jucharten. Peter, the brother of both, became, like the mentioned, monk of the Benediktiner-abbey Muri. That a farmer son in Rot decided on this cloister, was no chance. The cloister Muri has related for centuries of numerous farms in the office Ruswil the annual of tenth. The farmer in Rot accommodated the function of the tax collectors vis-á-vis the cloister into the 18th century, that is, he took in the duties owed the cloister of the farmers of the area, above all grain and fruits and delivered this the cloister. These constant contacts and relations might the young Peter Stirnimann moved have to enter into this cloister. Peter has been would educate since the 27 June 1670 student of the cloisters-. On 7 March 1672, he began the Noviziat. On 21 March 1673, he discarded his Profess under the cloister name Jost (Jodocus, Jodok). At the day before the Profess, the brothers secured delivered became Sebastian and Hans Stirnimaim "zue Etzenerlen and in the Roth Lucerner here-shaft" the novice the fatherly and motherly Erbanteil in the sum by 5000 guilders, that "in annemblichen, certain Gültbriefen" to the cloister. This dowry of 5000, Without doubt one of the highest, that received the cloister ever of a novice, corresponds after today's value of around a million Swiss francs. It does not surprise then also, that P. Leodegar Mayer, that at that time chronicler of the Klosters Muri, this dowry in his cloister history mentions and encloses, Frater Jost Stirnimaun "had been" out of a family rural, but very rich to be sure (" ex progenie quidem rustica, sed valde divite"). On 29 February 1676, Frater Jost became of the pontifical Nuntius in Lucerne the deacon and on 4 June 1678 to the head priest. On 29 June 1678, the Neupriester in the cloister church Muri in presence of his relative celebrated his Primizmesse. Pater Jost accommodated the office of the grain-master (Grananus) in the cloister. As such took it - it was the time of the Naturalwirtschafi - the duties of the monastic fief farms toward and had the supervision over the grain stores. That in his type unique, remaining salary of P. Jost is his journal composed under the title "Annale breve" (today in the archive of the Benediktiner-council in Sarnen: M 399, Pp 4). At the time before 1800, journals are a large rarity. P. Jost has his journal in one, expressed conceived pretty Latin. Only single, usually short sections are German written. P. Jost holds the historical recollections and events of his cloister in his records in addition to his personal observations and thought above all firmly. He pursued attentive in the years 1695/97 the structural work of the current cloister church Muri. The journal counts as the head source of the building history of this significant church central building. But also our family is P. Jost to be remained thanks to obligated, contains yet his journal an abundance of messages of Freud and Leid and interesting event in the life of his siblings and relatives with whom the order man remained closely connected. We give would let out of pressure wait, the publication of the journal and its German translation no longer for itself to the expectation. Pater Jost Stirnimann died in the cloister Muri on 28 December 1706 in the age of 52 years.

Became monk Pater Jost (Jodocus) at the monistary Muri near Ruswil. Godparents were: Peter Meyer of Mittelarig & Elisabetha Heini of Unterarig.

FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN

Pater Jost Stirnimann (1654-17O6), Benediktiner der Abtei Muri

The earliest well known order man of our family is Jost Stirnimann, monk of the Benediktiner-abbey Muri in the Aargau free office. Peter, like he with his baptism name (baptized on 25 February 1654 in the parish church in Buttisholz), perceived the light of the world in of oldest parent firm of our family in Rot in Ruswil as 3rd son of Hans-Jakob Stirnimann and Barbara Bucher. Of both brothers, Sebastian received, the older, the 160 Jucharten holding, fatherly farm in Rot, Hans, the younger, the farm inherited by uncle Peter Stirnimann in the adjoining Etzenerlen to the extent of 170 Jucharten. Peter, the brother of both, became, like the mentioned, monk of the Benediktiner-abbey Muri. That a farmer son in Rot decided on this cloister, was no chance. The cloister Muri has related for centuries of numerous farms in the office Ruswil the annual of tenth. The farmer in Rot accommodated the function of the tax collectors vis-á-vis the cloister into the 18th century, that is, he took in the duties owed the cloister of the farmers of the area, above all grain and fruits and delivered this the cloister. These constant contacts and relations might the young Peter Stirnimann moved have to enter into this cloister. Peter has been would educate since the 27 June 1670 student of the cloisters-. On 7 March 1672, he began the Noviziat. On 21 March 1673, he discarded his Profess under the cloister name Jost (Jodocus, Jodok). At the day before the Profess, the brothers secured delivered became Sebastian and Hans Stirnimaim "zue Etzenerlen and in the Roth Lucerner here-shaft" the novice the fatherly and motherly Erbanteil in the sum by 5000 guilders, that "in annemblichen, certain Gültbriefen" to the cloister. This dowry of 5000, Without doubt one of the highest, that received the cloister ever of a novice, corresponds after today's value of around a million Swiss francs. It does not surprise then also, that P. Leodegar Mayer, that at that time chronicler of the Klosters Muri, this dowry in his cloister history mentions and encloses, Frater Jost Stirnimaun "had been" out of a family rural, but very rich to be sure (" ex progenie quidem rustica, sed valde divite").

On 29 February 1676, Frater Jost became of the pontifical Nuntius in Lucerne the deacon and on 4 June 1678 to the head priest. On 29 June 1678, the Neupriester in the cloister church Muri in presence of his relative celebrated his Primizmesse.

Pater Jost accommodated the office of the grain-master (Grananus) in the cloister. As such took it - it was the time of the Naturalwirtschafi - the duties of the monastic fief farms toward and had the supervision over the grain stores.

That in his type unique, remaining salary of P. Jost is his journal composed under the title "Annale breve" (today in the archive of the Benediktiner-council in Sarnen: M 399, Pp 4). At the time before 1800, journals are a large rarity. P. Jost has his journal in one, expressed conceived pretty Latin. Only single, usually short sections are German written. P. Jost holds the historical recollections and events of his cloister in his records in addition to his personal observations and thought above all firmly. He pursued attentive in the years 1695/97 the structural work of the current cloister church Muri. The journal counts as the head source of the building history of this significant church central building.

But also our family is P. Jost to be remained thanks to obligated, contains yet his journal an abundance of messages of Freud and Leid and interesting event in the life of his siblings and relatives with whom the order man remained closely connected. We give would let out of pressure wait, the publication of the journal and its German translation no longer for itself to the expectation.

Pater Jost Stirnimann died in the cloister Muri on 28 December 1706 in the age of 52 years.

Sources

Description	Page	Quality	Information	Evidence
Verband derFamilien Stirnimann/Stirnemann	Rundbrief, Nr.25, Ruswil - März 1999	Don't know	Primary	Don't know

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