Commemoration and worship

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Remembrance days | Pilgrimages | Religious services | Prayers and intercessions | Songs | Drawings and portraits | Signs of worship and commemoration | Candles | Recollections of the children of their parents

Remembrance days

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Date Commemoration day Notes
30th September 1898 Nikolaus Groß` birthday Every Sunday before or after 30th September a religious service is held in the Dome of Xanten. On this occasion a person or an institution , which or who has shown special commitment to the preserving the memory of Nikolaus Groß is honoured with the "Light of Xanten"
Click here to get more information about this themeOnly in German The light procession 1998
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English "The light of Xanten", Candle in the evening grammar school
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English The way of the light procession from Niederwenigern to Xanten
Click here to get more information about this themeOnly in German List of the award winners "Light of Xanten" since 1988
23rd 01.1945 Day of death This day was officially stipulated as the day of religious worship by Pope John Paul II.
Click here to get more information about this themeOnly in German Religious service with the central motive of light 2003
Nameday Nikolaus Groß Entry of Nikolaus Groß in the Adveniat diary
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Digest of the Adveniat diary
07th 10.2001 Day of the beatification of Nikolaus Groß

Pilgrimages

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Date Pilgrimage Place Notes
2001 Pilgrimage of the Marienschool Essen-Steele to Niederwenigern Essen-Steele and Hattingen-Niederwenigern
25th May 2003 Pilgrimage in the diocese of Kattowitz Piekary / Polen

Religious services

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Date Religious service Place Notes
23rd January 2003 Light religious service Essen Religious service in the cathedral of Essen on the 58th day of death of Nikolaus Groß

Prayers and intercessions

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Prayer Notes
Light of Xanten Annual prayer since the transfer of the light into the Dome of Xanten
Sacrifice under the gallows Prayer for the beatification of Nikolaus Groß
Way of the cross Prosper-Haniel Prayer for the Way of the cross Prosper-Haniel
Seliger Nikolaus Groß, bitte für uns Nikolaus Groß in einem Kassiber vom 4. Dezember 1944
Nine days` prayer
In English Beatificazione Beatificazione Intercession on St. Peter`s square on the day of beatification
Prayer "Blessed Nikolaus Groß"
Witness of the light in dark night Intercessions by students of the Nikolaus-Groß-Evening school in the religious service on 23rd January 2003

Songs

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Song Notes
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English I was still young
From the Nikolaus-Groß-Musical
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Yours is the earth
From the Nikolaus-Groß-Musical
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Come, we stride
From the Nikolaus-Groß-Musical
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English In this time, be close to us
By Michael Meyer, Teacher at the Nikolaus-Groß-Evening school
Klicken Sie für mehr zu diesem ThemaIn English Unser Ja sei ein Ja
Von Gregor Linssen

Drawings and portraits

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Drawing / Painting Notes
In English Portrait By Alice Groß
In English Portrait By Carls
In English Portrait, Oil painting By Patrick Schoden
In English Portrait Von Imi Weber
In English Portrait, Pencil drawing By Hanna Frey
In English Drawing Nikolaus Groß By Alois Gerg
In English Portrait By Prälat Albert Kaußen
In English Portrait, Linoleum print By Barbara Piwarski
In English Portrait By Ludger Schwarzwald
In English Portrait, Pencil drawing By Hanna Frey
In English Elisabeth Groß, Watercolour By Werner Platte
In English Coloured pencil drawing By Ludger Schwarzwald
In English Portrait
In English Portrait on big carpet By Andrej Piwarski

Signs of worship and commemoration

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Sign Notes
In English Badge Medal Work of art, made by Egino Weinert
In English Coin for the beatification
In English Postcard for the celebrations of the diocese Diocese celebration on the occasion of the beatification in the cathedral of Essen on 21st October 2001
In English Postcard of the Nikolaus-Groß-House
In English Special postmark of the Catholics in the diocese of Essen
In English Deacon`s stole
Chalice for the religious service in the Nikolaus-Groß-Evening school
Stoles and Vestment for the religious service in the Nikolaus-Groß-Evening school
Postcard with pictures of the musical, the Nikolaus-Groß-House, the Nikolaus-Groß-Evening school and the new chapel in the cathedral
Only in German Postcard of an memorial in Düsseldorf in honour of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke and Nikolaus Groß

Candles

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Candles Notes
In English Candle Nikolaus Groß
In English Candle of the Catholic Working Class movement
In English Candle in the crypt of the St. Victor Dome in Xanten

Recollections of the children of their parents

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Date Recollection Notes
16th 03.1998 Only in German Conversation between a student and Bernhard Groß
2001 Only in German Nikolaus and Elisabeth Groß - a daughter remembers

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