The Baroque Piarist Church of Maria Treu, Vienna, Austria. Photo:Jeff Gilbert
Even before it was begun in 1716 with the construction of the church, which since 1697 after acting in the "Josefstadt" these suburb Piarists had unfolded in addition to their religious mission as a teacher educator and an active pastoral work. The celebrations in the monastery chapel - the chapel pain today - were celebrated with the participation of believers from all over Vienna and the priests were ready day and night to help the sick and dying. Thus, the former rector of the college P. Adolf resentment on 18 Introduced in December 1719 by Archbishop Sigismund Graf Kollonitz as first minister of the newly established parish of Maria Treu. The later Superior General, Bishop of Wiener Neustadt and Raab P. Groll followed in the parish of Josefstadt in a over 280-year history Piaristenpfarrer, the Dr. Otto Biba in a Festschrift in retrospect, the question of "whether because these men for the parish nothing have been considered as another church, built and renovated, struggled with finances, debt and debt payment made. That leaves about two hundred and fifty years of toil in the soul-care record in the books but not the historian. "
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Location: Parish Maria Treu Piaristengasse 43-45 1080 Vienna
Photo credit: © Jeff Gilbert / Alamy / Afripics
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