Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer did not find the grounds of Hart’s Sleeping Place, near Carrolltown, suitable for farming. Oswald Moosmüller writes: “Father Boniface, whose cradle had stood in the so called “Dark Soil” region, the most fertile wheat country in Bavaria, contemplated the harsh, rocky, and mountainous countryside around Carrolltown Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer arrives in America: “After a good ocean voyage, Father Boniface and his companions had arrived safely in New York on September 16. There he visited with the Redemptorist Father Rumpler on Third Street, the aged Vicar General Raffeiner in Williamsburg, and the Benedictine pioneer, Father Balleis Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer’s group finally leaves for its Mission to America. “Finally, the immediate preparations for the journey began with a spiritual retreat. The day of departure from Munich was July 25, 1846. They traveled by way of Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, Mannheim and Mainz to Rotterdam, where they shipped Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Oswald Moosmüller’s book gives insights on those who would accompany Boniface Wimmer to America. “These five students thus would become the first candidates for the priesthood which Divine Providence brought to Father Boniface for the establishment of a monastery in America.5 “In addition to these, another fifteen upstanding Read more…