Mediale Trauer um einen streitbaren religiösen Aktivisten: Hyacinthe Loyson (1827-1912)

Berlis, Angela (2018). Mediale Trauer um einen streitbaren religiösen Aktivisten: Hyacinthe Loyson (1827-1912). Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte / Contemporary church history, 31(2), pp. 363-380. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 10.13109/kize.2018.31.2.363

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Stories already circulated during his lifetime regarding the famous preacher, Old Catholic pastor, and publicist, Hyacinthe Loyson (1827-1912). Beginning with his tombstone at the cemetery in Père Lachaise in Paris and numerous obituaries in which various media outlets around the world reacted to his passing, the present contribution concerns itself with the narratives of his person and analyzes these in regard to their religious commemorative-political dimensions. Three aspects are distinguished: through his autobiographical testimony, Père Hyacinthe Loyson contributed to the effective public staging of his own life, considering himself to be a reformer of the Catholic Church (in that he had been a monk, who married). In the «mass media saddle period» of the 1870s, Loyson rose to media stardom and became a public figure around the globe, who, together with his wife, Emilie Loyson-Meriman (1833-1909), called the churches to reunite and world religions to be reconciled. His obituary, which is preserved in a unique collection of circa 700 newspaper cuttings, open another dimension of remembrance: they serve as a material compilation – a reconstruction of a multifaceted religious life called to remembrance through third parties and preserved in memories far beyond Loyson’s death through newspaper cuttings lovingly glued in a black-death-book, but also through other forms of commemoration from France and Switzerland such as tombstones, coins, badges, and medals.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Catholic Theology 01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Catholic Theology > Church History and Historical Theology, Liturgical Studies
UniBE Contributor:	Berlis, Angela
Subjects:	200 Religion > 270 History of Christianity 200 Religion > 290 Other religions
ISSN:	0932-9951
Publisher:	Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht
Language:	German
Submitter:	Angela Karoline Hermine Berlis
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2019 11:16
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:28
Publisher DOI:	10.13109/kize.2018.31.2.363
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/130050