ADAMI, ADAM

ADAMI, ADAM. — Benedictine bishop, born in Mülheim in 1610, died in Hildesheim in 1663. He pursued philosophical studies at the University of Cologne and in 1628 entered the Benedictine abbey of S. Nicola di Brauweiler. He was rector of the seminary in Cologne and later prior of S. Giacomo di Magonza. After the Battle of Nördlingen, during the Thirty Years’ War, he was entrusted with defending the rights of the monasteries of Swabia and Württemberg. He took part in the Congress of Westphalia and, after the peace, was sent to Rome to Pope Innocent X, from whom he obtained the title of bishop of Hierapolis; on returning to his homeland, he was elected auxiliary bishop of Hildesheim. His principal work is: Arcana pacis Westphalicae, which was printed in Frankfurt in 1698.

Emma Santovito