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The Church of the Holy Spirit in the Aurina Valley

The Church of the Holy Spirit is found in high mountain valley into a narrow, but is protected by a towering cliff behind it before the avalanche, depart from the steep slope behind it and threaten them. Between church and rocks is a narrow opening through which we slipped off earlier by crawling, and so generally accepted that the sins that had been loaded up. The church was on 22 June 1455 consecrated by Prince-Bishop of Brixen and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. It is generally assumed to the site had previously been a church that was attended primarily by people who went to the Krimml Tauern Salzburg into tables or came over from there. Around the church to the Jochgänger dead have been buried, the high mountains has always called for.

The statue, to render a number of pilgrims came to the Holy Spirit and is come, the Holy Trinity dar. Is there - as for images that are particularly revered by the people, is frequently observed, - not a particularly valuable künsterlisch representation. Experts suspect a copy of an original Baroque, the 14th from the Century came, but velor is. According to legend, the image was already since time immemorial highly revered, as it healed and animal diseases. As it is the pastor of Ahrn once to fight the superstition that had arisen around the image of the church and accepted in the parsonage of St. John locked in a cupboard, where it disappeared overnight and was in the morning in the Church of the Holy Spirit.

a similarly mysterious cult object, which is kept in the Church of the Holy Spirit is the interleaved cross.
Legend has it that once stood as a crossroads near the church and was a shooter who went to a shooting match over to the roots, used as a target. killed on the way back the bull, he had won the shooting competition as Best, the shooter at the exact spot where he had wantonly shot on the cross. This Lord of the three bullet holes in the breast is supported by the Ahrntaler every year after Ehrenburg, when they set out from there Prettau the cloister.

From: Holy Spirit - Pilgrim leader (leader of the pilgrims to the Holy Spirit Tauferer Ahrntal). Publisher: Parish Prettau, 2005

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St. Lawrence of Brindisi

St. Lawrence of Brindisi came after he led at Venice as a student a life of innocence and penance, at the age of 16 years in the Capuchin Order. The novitiate, he completed in Verona, after which he was sent to Padua to further education in the sciences. We marveled at the deep piety and the brilliant talent. In all sciences, especially linguistics, he showed great knowledge. "I could play the entire Hebrew scriptures word for word," he commented, such a memory he had. 1583 he was ordained priest, from where it spread to his truly apostolic zeal for souls. The success of his preaching was amazing. Even the stubborn Jewish people, many of which he converted, harbored admiration for the Capuchins, which is why Clement VIII appointed him to Rome, there Jews to convert. He was also transplanted to Germany of the Capuchin Order. 1601 Austria celebrated him as the winner of the Turks in battle at Szekesfehervar. A year later he is elected Superior General, in which capacity he traveled all the provinces to foot and everywhere echoed the cry, "St. General". Not just the people, and in Rome he was in great esteem, and it awarded him the Saint. Father and the learned Bellarmine pulled him even consulted. Pius VI. and Leo XIII. have chiefly to St.. Lorenz attributed that was not in Southern Protestantism spread out so as in the north. - In Villa Franca rest his bones.

With Recommended approval of the Reverend. Bishop of Chur

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