You thank you for coming to cologne today. We are standing here in front of cologne cathedral because we have been saying, and we have been saying this for 3 years, stop the abuse of power and stop the cover up the acts of sexual abuse or monstrous. Well, the cover up of these crimes is even more monstrous strong. Do you think we will no longer allow a small clerical elite to betray the message of jesus . That is important to us. The one he had to stop. The abuse of power picks up the cover upwards and stop his self serve any Church Leadership along the women of the maria to point 0 movement have had enough. They have lost patience with the archbishop of cologne, called an old. Okay. They are protesting against sexual abuse in a charge against murky finances, and especially against the treatment of women in the Catholic Church. Over the centuries, the churches declared many women to be saints, but who were those women . And can they still be role models to day . The area behind cologne cathedral and the citys main train station may not look very remarkable, but it steeped in history, romans franks orange dolphin, and french have left their mark here. The archdiocese of cologne is one of the oldest and richest local churches north of the alps. With almost 2000000 members, the power and wealth of the cologne archdiocese is linked in a curious way to the legend of a woman believe to have lived many centuries ago. One of the cities, famous romanesque churches is dedicated to her and she was declared that his patron, saint ursula. The legend states that she lived in the 4th century when the 1st christians arrived in what is now western germany. Extraordinary women have always played an Important Role in the church, but they have often been restricted by the ro, the male clergy allotted to them. They were expected to be demure and subservient. So who exactly was sent ursula . And how did her legend come about . Yeah, i think it was a nurse. Sheila is a british princess all kings georgia, and its time for her to get married. If i father agrees to him marrying a young man named a t. S t a use the zach than the seed of it. She says she wants to go on a pilgrimage to rome 1st and then think about this marriage at nothing. Then it give the thief thats. Yeah, i turns out that i live in virginia. I to accompany her on this journey into a game venzano. Ive been lighter than over the centuries. The famous arithmetical era crept in, and the 11th became 11000 of on one here. They make their way to rome, where they meet pope leo who abandons the papal throne because his so convinced to the power of these future saints and wants to travel within a hiding rush, bent on, hiding it, does emit calmed in spite of what he, even though st. Ursula has already had a vision that she will suffer martyrdom in cologne to tie for come the see in kind in matthew, at ward allied in current over immediately again. The dusty done in colona has always been the legend that she met in the hands here who brutally murdered her and her companions, done and modest and put hot ash long. Ha ah the legend became widespread and was highly popular in the high middle ages. Ursula was venerated as a christian martyr. Saints are often associated with granting specific favors, and ursula is not only the patron of cologne. She is also the patron saint of children. She arranges good marriages and protects her devotees in times of need and war. She also stands by them in the hour of their death. Even today, she has her followers, but she was never actually canonized by the charge. Even her existence is not a proven fact. Why not . I attended this is lena Convent School in cologne for 3 years. And that was when i 1st came into contact with ursula hm. Later i tired the school myself, live up and took many students to the church of saint ursula. And when they enrolled at the school side and explained this picture cycle to them, what isnt, isnt builder to close at cleared his father. And i was shocked when i heard that st. Ursula was long old from the universal calendar with the Catholic Church. Him she because shes actually a legendary person. Dear, whose existence is, isnt historically proven. I 5 the skip i know inch lift, loosen inscription in the church of saint ursula the which states that a certain muslim medius, a roman senator from the east dog rebuild the church dedicated to the holy Virgin Margarita young fallen ver, but then you dont hear anything about this, ursula for centuries are also allowed the number, the name ursula only appears again in the 10th century. Thats a garnish. Good, none. The for that shes not mentioned at all. So an a gift and to be good. Then the story was written down in the 12th or 13th century english women. Thats the version in the lives of the saints, which then became widespread for bite hunger fontenot. The veneration of saint ursula became increasingly popular after hundreds of human remains were found around the church, which had been built over a roman graveyard. The bones were collected and distributed worldwide a sacred relics. The diocesan curator dr. Anna pavlik opens the room for us, known locally as the chamber of horrors. This is where the bones have been exhibited since the 17th century peak and skulls you see here in the Golden Chamber other resulted, numerous excavation conducted on the 12th or 30th centuries. I discovered back then, not by the end when the city of cologne ruined new fortifications were built in the 13th century and the church of saint ursula. Already assisted am at the builders, discovered a large roman Burial Ground here. And christians connected with the call to saint ursula on them of whom it was known that she died in the company of 11000 Virgin Island in tort reform. So of course, this appealed to confirm the legend that this was where the 11000. 00 virtuous and st ursula were martyred to modern robinson and the more and more bones were discovered and they were gradually connected here in the church of saint ursula during the middle ages. Examine it must have been quite a frightening size and what could be design . Thats it. And thats the basic design of the Golden Chamber. Down here at i level you have the size the reliquary busts with the beautiful virgins that rebar he could buy and above the bones that were discovered in the roman Burial Ground. Isnt women. She gave a faithful dunking as laws. Then the sale of the relics began, everybody wanted one year and a huge trade to val liked, especially in the 12th century, with no 100 das of his house. So to speak. Colognes main relics warehouse from your hours from here, the relics would also the reliquary passes, which were produced. Im both in the cologne, staunch is studios were shipped all over the world. Shift on. There were a couple of hits in the late mid luncheon are impact middle at the us. The la relics were one of the citys main sources of income and a magnet for pilgrims. They still draw visitors from all over the world and at the chamber was decorated lavishly when there were so many bones, not these are coffee guy, for instance, are still full of them that we could continue the trade to day. I will not be clogging along. They took the bones and then made them into ornaments. Now turn around, you see the 4th line from the bottom. St. Ursula, pray for us. Feel ones shall have. You can tell this lady whatever you choose. I bought, but she thinks you dont say i have my own views on that. Thats what is meant for instance, by the colon, smile, colonel issue. Somebody kind what a cologne prosper a little bout and the cathedral building d as and these relics were exported everywhere and along with the cult of the virgin loot the cult of virginity as an ideal at the church. His ideal for women, hal, this is how one could become wholly irish v. As for high hazard, the in canonized as a married woman was and still is not so easy, which perhaps indicates offenders that the church has a certain problem with the issue of the sexuality probably might. Ah, i mean i oh boy. Yeah. Credibility and against deception. Yeah, it cant go on like this. Have i think womens associations have acted courageously. Maria, 2. 0, always alongside the german catholic womens association. I ask you ro, trout to take the floor will not be likely lower in the church. Can only be a blessing when it is shared lens, limited and controlled, that this excludes an absolutist exercise of power. Theres a special need for women to participate more on the women that we want women to have an equal say in financial and legal transactions in questions of art and events in the cathedral and also in the election of bishop. Thank miss wood. In the exclusive meal club. The calm light monastery, maria from slaten, or our lady of peace, is situated in colognes old town. But the discounts carmelite sir, a contemplative order. They live here behind monastery was isolated from the outside world. Each time who has been canonized by the Catholic Church entered the cologne carmel in 1933, one of the last stages of her life before she was put to death in the outfits berkener death camp sister and cilla has been a carmelite for 60 years. She has no nuns who knew it each time personally. The sisters commissioned the artist gunter diminished, to make a memorial cobblestone to commemorate each time if there are many memorial cobblestones in clerk and clothing, many that commemorate edith stein for a day. However, this stone, as specialized our it commemorates the fact that each time before she travelled to Carmelite Community in holland, in 1938, to thinking that she would be safe from him to there, but stopped here for an hour to pray to our lady of peace or v, thats the name of our church, the highs over again. This is where she said good bye to germany of she and its what this cobblestone commemorate, assign this guy was he, you have to been down. At least you have to search a bit for what is there a you have to bow your head to what this person suffered and went through in her life had elite, had elaborate it each time i was born into a jewish family, converted to catholicism, aged, 31. 00 and was put to death in the gas chambers of outfits. In 1942 pope john paul, the 2nd beatified her in cologne in 1987 and declared her a saint in 1998. When i was present at the canonization, which had i been invited to did the 1st reading at least from the book of esther had when he has standing a little higher up in saint peters square. I had a wonderful view of all the people. Thousands of people differ mention on my food and i felt something very profound if, if he mentioned dish that the people i could see were of many different colors languages, nations and thats yawned her out. I had the very strong feeling happy that they were being given aided as this is down at amish west african vague. Who was this extraordinary woman . Edith stein was born in bressler, present. Dave round, suave, in 1891. She was the 11th child of a jewish family of wood, merchants, an unconventional child. She stood out from her peers because of her intelligence. After graduating from high school, she studied german history and philosophy. Later in her memoirs, she would write. I lived with a conviction that something momentous was in store for me. At the Carmelite Monastery in cologne, the edict stein archive is managed by historian thomas short shine an atheist for a number of years, sought answers to her ethical questions in humanist philosophy. Womens rights were one of her major preoccupations. She wrote, there is no job that cant be done by a woman. After all, no woman is just a woman. Each woman has her individual characteristics and disposition. Just as a man does this warped another, she was one of the 1st women to receive a doctorate in philosophy. The fact that she chose philosophy and then also completed this degree very successfully and acquired her doctorate with the highest grade. The summa cum, louder also corresponds to her personality at the time, which was very clear, very disciplined, very strict, very intellectually oriented. Were all scholars stood . Then each time had a crisis. She tried 4 times to be admitted to the post Doctoral Program that could lead to a University Teaching career. But it was in vain. As a woman and a jew, a chair in philosophy was close to her. In the germany of the 1920s, she wrote an experience that exceeded my strength, sobbed my spiritual vitality, and made all activity impossible. Dirt onto the manti semitism at german universities didnt 1st emerge in 1933 us. And it certainly had an impact on herself image as up switched. And this also can go up to scope or she suffered repeated psychological crisis, went to school. And as a student, she suffered from severe depression does. And they would cliffs and crises in her life. However, this makes her not only a complex personality, but also a very distinct person which got so no, no, no, rosalind, that po fear, sister and silla believes that its normal to experience ruptures, crises and tensions on the road to holiness is dinky. He, i think the saints are with us in life. Me or involved in beaks is in this up cool. They are not aloof from a human existence then that it placed very deeply in the light in this, in the dark, clear on it each time it had shine it as one has something of shalom. In her presence shalom i wish b m. I shall miss a hebrew word anyway and somebody once told me them, its a compound of fire and ice toyota ice lesson. Is he, these are opposites we cannot reconciling. And, but we experienced this world only as contrast this. After failing to gain admission to the post Doctoral Program, each time worked as a school teacher, lecturer and translator. Her encounter with christianity helped her to deal with professional frustration and rejection. Each dine was received into the Catholic Church in 1922. Her conversion was difficult for her family to accept. I beginning when i entered the carmelite order, i met several sisters who had known her. It is man infinity and my feeling is that edith became more human. I mentioned she, i mention provide a human being and deeply rooted in that in the mystery of being human and c, 9 happ corded damage. When the nazis came to power each time lost her teaching position. That same year, she decided to become a comma, like none. When she took the veil, she received the name Teresa Benedict her of the cross. In 1938, she took a final vows. When the nazis required religious orders in germany to reveal the ethnicity of their members, each dine superiors arranged for her to flee the country and to enter a common light monastery in holland. When her lunch bits, desist villanueva in holland, her situation became critical. When the catholic bishops wrote a pastoral letter condemning the nazis persecution of the jews, thus 1st would middle, im reprisal, the ss arrested. All jewish catholics in holland, in orlando d over you to show here could fall on enough to you at one. I was a decent in schoolstore, and with dss forced their way into the monastery and arrested edith and her sister rosa, who had also converted to catholicism mil at tar. The transport lasted several days and ended on the 9th of august in auschwitz list. Oh sure, its good. There is evidence that she might have been able to escape, but she preferred, she said, to die with her people via alum, all humans must become wholly of thought. Otherwise, human life is not worth living will meet them again. I believe with all my heart that every human has that ability had it as i got it for god is present in the heart of every human. Even mention is god getting bad. Everything is one as each time would also certainly say that Group Portrait of a saint is the name of this bronze monument to each time it stands on cologne, Stock Exchange square. Her canonization was controversial because as jewish authorities rightly pointed out, she was murdered because she was a jew. However, her arrest and deportation to arch fits were in direct response to the dutch bishops condemning the nazis racial doctrine. In other words, she was also murdered because of the Catholic Church, his moral teaching. And that makes her a christian martyr. In thinks a flash point, district in cologne. The pastor and parish of saint t a door are committed to establishing equality and solidarity. The focus is on working with families, young people and refugees, especially for the lay theologian, marianna, aunt, who is the pastoral assistant here. Her door is open to refugees whose problems she tries to resolve this actually places and really number one on the who told you that a someone at the airport and now youve missed your flight. Thats racism. Thats really really, really ovens with them. Got them a vis. Look at was every sang. Then id say maybe you could do something about easter ramadan. Yeah. Thats a good idea of and will go upstairs. Ok. She got arbiten in fine reason. He said to myself that i want to take an active part in the liturgy and not really stay in the background and reminded me, can i want the congregation to get to know me . Does . Thats why i think its important for women who do the job to have a place in the liturgy as well. A little you havent missed a b one. They dont have to beg for. But if they have to choose and high speed. Marianna onto the co founder of the maria to point 0 movement. She wants Womens Ministry in the church to be even more effective and visible. Ok. Be still in the corner in your home country . No, i havent been to school. Hello. Hello. This is mariana, aunt from the Catholic Church in thinks, turn berg, tune back up. Ha ha. I need your help urgently. For one, for cool. Sure. Our check must become a Different Church and it must become a church if shed power of power expressed in serve. And the man to viciously me and the 2. 0 were not striving for leadership. And for the priest line, the priest of the priesthood, god continue is it is now so called miss miss ion food is the church, belong to not the cardinal nor the priestly done. It belongs to every luncheon that i will have you write it and give it to her to take. Now lets see who we should help. Nichol fornia. I probably take this ukrainian family side and the mob you have of mine. Okay. Let me follow her fund. I also need to all the passports vote and so by hell yeah. Ok, good. Then how one very from women had rights worldwide. One and the Catholic Church gave women older rights. Im of the i and one vote. It would have an effect on peace in the world on that. But the Church Leadership doesnt dare to do those and like me because they themselves are scared. The for happened. Why is the pope afraid for why the bishops afraid . And if you have the gospel in your pocket, you dont need to be afraid. 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