“Learning and pastoral care are attended to with all zeal and energy wherever Benedictines enter the field. To erect a German seminary was my aim. It has been fulfilled to a great extent.”
BONIFACE WIMMER TO GREGORY SCHERR
Latrobe, Pa., February 28, 1854
Letters of An American Abbot
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 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 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 Read more