In Nomine - Otto M. Schwarz

Grade 4 - Duration 11:20
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"How often has something been justified by, declared to be, or blessed as ‘in the name of’ some cause or other? How can it be that opposing armies and the use of weapons are ever ‘in the name of…’?
This is a common thread in the history of different faiths. Good was created but evil was committed and all ‘in the name of…’
This thread is also found in the history of the Premonstratensian Abbey at Wadgassen. The abbey was built in the 12th century on unfertile, desolate moorland, which later evolved into the most powerful religious community in the Saarland. The history of the abbey records quite astounding achievements under the motto desertum florebit quasi lilium (‘the desert will bloom like a lily’); but also the harsh treatment of delinquents. The order had its own school, in which children were taught the seven liberal arts (which included music as well as geography and astronomy), but the poor were left to starve outside the abbey walls and were only allowed to eat from the members’ leftovers on feast days.
The medieval witch trials demanded their pound of flesh, and one group that fell victim were ecstatic dancers who moved wildly to music-which was interpreted as the devil’s work. The result: a show trial that sentenced the dancers to death by fire. All in the name of…
SDP122-21-202