Wimmer Wednesday. A close encounter with a serpent: During my most recent stay at St. Mary’s I was almost bitten by a rattle snake; no one had ever seen one there before. I went with Brother Philipp, the carpenter, to inspect the school house near the church that had burned Read more
Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer described the establishment in St. Marys as follows: To the north of Carrolltown is our third place, at St. Maria, about 80 miles from the former. The parish there has about 400 families, all German and mostly Bavarians. Nine miles to the south of this is Read more
Wimmer Wednesday. The outpost at Carrolltown is described by Boniface Wimmer as consisting of a wooden farm house and a chapel. The Sunday after the Feast of Corpus Christi in 1849, the corner stone was laid for a beautiful church built of brick, 110 ft. long. The stately building went Read more