Jakob Rem was born in June 1546 in
Bregenz, Austria. In 1556 his family moved to
Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria. He studied at the Jesuit secondary school in Dillingen. Soon after starting his university studies in 1566 he asked for admission to the Jesuit order. He was sent to Rome, and on 18 September 1566 began his first novitiate. In Rome he met the Jesuit leaders
Peter Canisius and
Francis Borgia. 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. 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 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. In 1582 he became chancellor of Jesuit seminary at Dillingen. In 1584 Rem moved to the Jesuit College in
Munich, and in 1585 was made prefect in the local Jesuit seminary of Saint Michael. Jakob Rem became chancellor of the Jesuit Seminary at Ingolstadt in 1586, a position he would hold until his death. He was exceptional for his renunciation of worldly things, for ecstasies, visions and prophecies. On 4 May 1595 Jakob Rem founded the
Colloquium Marianum during the dedication of a new altar at the Jesuit College of Ingolstadt. 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. == Beatfication process ==