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A Benedictine Place

Benedictine and American Clashing or Blending Values

Historians studying Catholicism in the United States will note how often our generation used words like “evangelization” and “inculturation.” We were fascinated, they will say, by what happened when the values found in the Catholic tradition came into contact with Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsSeptember 12, 2018 ago
Boniface Wimmer Anniversary

Passion for Christ

On the occasion of the inauguration of the bicentennial celebration Of Archabbot Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. “Forward, always forward… “, “We need to expand…” When you read or hear these words you think to be in front of a conqueror running Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsSeptember 5, 2018 ago
A Benedictine Place

Boniface Wimmer: Biblical, Catholic, Benedictine

Anniversaries have a way of nurturing nostalgia, but they are far more important as reminders of an original vision that can be a guide for the future. And when the monks of Saint Vincent reflect on the history and future Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsAugust 29, 2018 ago
Boniface Wimmer Anniversary

Saint Vincent Plans Year In Celebration of Founder

It took Benedictine Father Boniface Wimmer three years and four attempts to gain permission from his superiors to sail from Bavaria to the United States, where he envisioned spreading the Order of St. Benedict and evangelizing immigrants, especially ones from Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsAugust 22, 2018 ago
Boniface Wimmer Anniversary

Saint Vincent Celebrates Founder

In the 1860s, St. Vincent Archabbot Boniface Wimmer faced crisis after crisis. Internal disputes over the expansion of the archabbey he founded in 1846 near Latrobe were rampant. A barn burned. Crops failed. And Wimmer was desperately trying to provide Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsAugust 15, 2018 ago
A Benedictine Place

The Final Word Is Love

From the road, Saint Vincent looks enormous and remote. But once we set foot within its community, we quickly discover how close it really is, and the only thing that’s enormous about it is its heart. Saint Vincent was part Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsAugust 8, 2018 ago
A Benedictine Place

Fire Near Saint Vincent Archabbey

We arrive with the long snow on foot, our eyes the only light, tracks of the last sled, our path back to the road. Ahead the lake where we strike the match. The wind stales the cold rush of smoke. Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsAugust 1, 2018 ago
A Benedictine Place

The Saint Vincent Touch: Reflection on Meaning

For a quarter century, Saint Vincent has been an experience of defining importance to me as a person, a lecturer in religious studies, and a rabbi. There are the unforgettable events: when one of the nuns (pre-food service days) prepared Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsJuly 25, 2018 ago
A Benedictine Place

Boniface Wimmer and Saint Vincent Seminary

On March 18, 1847, Bishop Michael O’Connor of Pittsburgh ordained Father Charles Geyerstanger, the first priest-graduate of Saint Vincent Seminary. Since that day nearly 2,300 diocesan and religious priests, including 28 bishops and archbishops, have been ordained from Saint Vincent. Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsJuly 18, 2018 ago
History and Heritage

Hart’s Sleeping Place First Stop for Boniface Wimmer

While Saint Vincent founder Boniface Wimmer eventually settled in Latrobe, where he found the fields and farmland to be more conducive to the community he wanted to establish, his first stop on his mission to America was a little log Read more…

By Saint Vincent Archabbey Public Relations, 4 yearsJuly 11, 2018 ago

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