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 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, 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 Read more…

Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer writes to those who would go with him to America. “Each one will take along what he possesses. Whatever may be left after the fare to America has been paid will be his until he makes Read more…

Wimmer Wedneday. Boniface Wimmer continues in a letter to those who would go on his mission with him. “To that end you should consider it a privilege to be allowed to take part in a work like this. I will Read more…

Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer continues in a letter to those who would follow him to America. “What I know about America I have learned only from hearsay or from what I have read about it. I must be prepared to Read more…

Wimmer Wednesday. As Boniface Wimmer got closer to his Mission to America, he penned these words to those who would go with him. “In reply to your communication regarding our proposed mission to America I wish to submit the following. Read more…

Wimmer Wednesday. A call to action. Boniface Wimmer writes: “Let us, therefore, no longer build air castles for our countrymen in America. Let us provide for their religious interests; then their domestic affairs will take care of themselves. Benedictine monasteries Read more…

Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer’s focus was on education and ministry. From that all else would follow. “A large German population would be found near the monastery, much as in the Middle Ages, villages, towns, and cities sprang up near Benedictine Read more…

Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer’s early conclusions on mission development. “Father Boniface points out further how once upon a time the conversion of England, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Poland was, to a large extent, carried out by the Benedictine Read more…