In 1878, von Massow added a prayer society, the Gebetsverein, which prayed a number of prayers (including "Veni Creator Spiritus" by Rabanus Maurus) "with the intention that all may be one".
Rabanus Maurus | Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium | Maurus von Schenkl | Maurus Corker | Maurus |
This latter work has been attributed to Rabanus Maurus, Alcuin, and even to St. Augustine, and is quoted by Ignaz von Döllinger among other writings of the medieval conception of Antichrist.
In the Martyrologium Hieronymianum they are mentioned under 6 January; Usuard, Ado, Notker of St Gall, and others place them under the ninth, and Rabanus Maurus under the thirteenth of the same month, while Vandelbert puts them under 13 February, and the Menology of Canisius under 21 June, the day to which the Greek Menaea assign St. Julian of Caesarea.
In Germany he attended the Mainz Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium, and then the Universities of Mainz, Göttingen, Paris and Rome.