Background
Jakob Rem was born in June 1546 in Bregenz, Austria.
Jakob Rem was born in June 1546 in Bregenz, Austria.
After completing his novitiate, in the autumn of 1568 Jakob Rem returned to Dillingen, where he studied philosophy. He earned a master"s degree a year later, and then studied theology.
He introduced the phrase Mater admirablis into the litany. In 1556 his family moved to Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria. He was sent to Rome, and on 18 September 1566 began his first novitiate.
He was a fellow student of Stanislaus Kostka and Claudio Acquaviva.
While in Rome Jakob Rem came to know of the Sodality of Our Lady, a Marian society that had been founded there a few years earlier. He was ordained a priest in 1573 in Augsburg.
He held his first mass on 21 May 1573. On 13 November 1574 he founded a Marian congregation in Dillingen dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.
This was the first Marian Congregation in Southern Germany.
He was exceptional for his renunciation of worldly things, for ecstasies, visions and prophecies. The image of the Virgin was placed above the altar The Colloquium Marianum became an elite movement that included many of the leaders of the Counter Reformation. Jakob Rem gained a high reputation for his intelligence, wisdom and piety.
He died at Ingolstadt on 12 October 1618.
In 1875 the Jesuits began the process of canonizing him. The original is in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
Ingolstadt received a carefully made copy of the icon. Rem used the picture as a basis for teaching his students devotion of the Virgin.
Jakob Rem came to believe that the invocation "Mother admirable" in the Litany of Loreto summarized all that could be said about the Mother of God.
He was moved to ask the choir to repeat the phrase Mater admirablis three times to please the Virgin. This repetition became a set part of the litany of the Colloquists. The icon was given the name after the miraculous event, and became the focus for Marian devotion in the college.
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Rem is credited with the Marian devotion of He met with Rem four times. On the last visit, after Rem had been praying in front of the painting of Our Lady of the Snows, Rem took Wolfgang"s wedding ribbon and solemnly untied the wedding knots, smoothing out the ribbon, which became intensely white.