Zacharias Kirchgesser (1605–1645)

Zacharias Kirchgesser (1605–1645) OFM. German Observant friar active in the Münster area during the 30 years war. Born around 1600 in Klingenberg am Main. Guardian in Münster and Hildesheim, preacher and author. He died in 1645 in the odor of Sanctity.

Works

• Christliches Mitleyden oder vier trewhertzige kurtze Erinnerungen von jetziher grawsamer Veränderung in Teutchland and other sermons. Edited in the 2002 study of Becker-Huberti mentioned below. See now also: Das Grewliche Unthier der ketzerey. Vier Münsteraner Franziskanerpredigten aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg und eine fiktive Fürstenpredigt für kaiser Karl V , ed. Manfred Becker-Hubert, Westfalia Sacra, 19 (Münster: Aschendorff, 2020) [reviews in Wissenschaft und Weisheit 83 (2020), 295-299

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• Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 114 (2021), 336-339]. Based in part on four sermons issued for the first time in munster in 1635.

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