Abraham a Sancta Clara

The Catholic clergyman, preacher and writer Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644-1709) was called Johann Ullrich Megerle and joined the Roman Catholic Augustinian order in Maria-Brunn near Vienna in 1662. He was ordained a priest in 1668, became court preacher to Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705) in 1677 and developed into a feared pulpit orator with immense popularity. The success of his works and sermons was also due to the fact that he took into account the realities of his listeners' and readers' lives, for example in his doctrine on the estates "Something for everyone" (see picture).

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Epistle "The drunkard"

He castigated the sinful enjoyment of life and repeatedly railed from the pulpit against the bad habit of "binge drinking". He wrote the famous epistle "Der Sauffnarr" about this, in which the horrors of drunkenness and alcoholism and the accompanying moral decline are described:

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