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 abbeys. Then the monks could expect a large number of 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 Order, and in such a manner that it lasted for Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer’s early plans focused on German immigrants. “Father Boniface goes on to explain that he does not intend to speak about missions to the Indians, nor about parishes in towns or in the country, nor about established congregations, which already have churches, schools, and priests; he only Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer, the “projektenmacher begins to deeply consider the need for missionaries to America. “I have given much thought to the question of how they might be practically assisted. It is not difficult to understand what should be done—more German-speaking priests should be found laboring for the spiritual Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. The dream of Boniface Wimmer becomes a plan. “Shortly before Easter 1845 – he was surprised by the visit of a man, who could, like none other, strengthen his interest in the mission life. Not only that, but with lively imagination and a strange, attractive persuasiveness, he explained Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. The impetus for Boniface Wimmer’s missionary work. “Dr. Salzbacher, Chancellor at the Cathedral of Vienna and board member of the Leopoldine Foundation, whose purpose is the support of foreign missions, undertook a tour through North America in the year 1842. After his return, he published the observations he Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Young Boniface Wimmer learns something valuable. “At Metten, Father Boniface had received the living tradition of the Benedictine Order as a precious inheritance from the venerable seniors, Father Roman Raith and Father Ildephons Nebauer. In the process of re-organizing anew the Abbeys of St. Stephan in Augsburg and Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Young Boniface Wimmer goes to Augsburg. “Secretary of State Wallerstein, who had all the power in his hands in Bavaria at that time, wanted to found a monastery based on his ideas, to which all other Benedictine monasteries of Bavaria were to be subject. For this purpose, he Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. How young Boniface Wimmer ended up at Metten. “In June 1830 Metten was officially declared a Benedictine Priory.8 The two venerable monastics started their holy work in great poverty. As small and insignificant as this planting may have appeared, there nevertheless was a lot of talk about it, Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Young Sebastian Wimmer is ordained. “At the theological seminary in Regensburg, Sebastian had the invaluable good fortune to come under the mentorship of the enlightened and holy Georg Michael Wittmann. The teachings, principles, and above all the admirable example, which he absorbed here, stayed with him all the Read more…