Catacombs Synesius
e church has as relics the remains of the catacomb Synesius, about whose life nothing is known. The bones were in 1652 under Pope Innocent X, and through the mediation of the commander of the Swiss Guard Johann Rudolf Pfyffer of Altishofen from the Calepodius Catacombs in Rome removed and the town priest Heinrich Honegger and the capitular brought Christopher Bürgisser to Bremgarten.
On 18 August 1653 Bremgarten celebrated the arrival of the remains and the houses and streets were decorated with flower garlands, triumphal arches and inscription panels. Present at the ceremony were the Abbot Dominicus of Muri monastery, the abbot of Georgius Adelberg monastery in Württemberg and more than 90 priests from the world and regular clergy and political envoy of the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, Glarus and train . The bones were then placed in the altar specially created for this purpose in the town church.
The Holy Relics will be called on Synesifest, the fourth Sunday in October as a helper for eye diseases. These aggregated in a gold bones of the saint is held to the forehead and pronounced a blessing from a priest. Even today, the Synesifest is well attended. The decorated bones (skull and some limb bones) to be issued during the hard time in a shrine Synesiusaltar. During the year, the bones are kept in the parsonage in a burglary protected space.
On 24 October 1753 was celebrated the 100th anniversary of the transfer of the catacomb Synesius. For the anniversary, the sisters of the preconceived monastery Gnadenthal the new bones and embedded it into a new glass shrine. The celebration was first to 22 Scheduled in October, but was delayed by two days due to bad weather. It was attended by more than 10,000 people participated. The program consisted of a procession and a festival of three acts and eight scenes, which are the martyrs turned Synesius. The music was composed by the Bremgartner Bürgisser Father Caspar, who later became abbot of the monastery Wettingen .
On Monday, 24 In October 1853 the 200-year anniversary of the transfer of the catacomb Synesius took place. First, the celebration of the cantonal government was in Aarau banned because the necessary authorization was missing. There were also concerns about the lack of security and because of the failure of education in the schools. The City Council of Bremgarten sent a delegation to Aarau, mediated successfully. So the celebration could take place as planned.
On 25 October 1953 was celebrated the 300 th anniversary of the transfer of Synesius. There were a number of fairs and festival sermons. Special guests in attendance were the Abbot Stephen purchase of Abbey Muri-Gries and G. Binder canon of Solothurn .
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