from benedict to boniface and beyond:the vision and legacy of archabbot boniface wimmer
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500 600 700 800
540Saint Benedict writes his
Rule
The Rise of Monasticism
590Pope Saint Gregory I
766Founding of Saint Michael’s Abbey
Metten, Germany
742Saint Boniface
Apostle to Germany
597Saint Augustine of
Canterbury
Saint Benedict’s Abbey
Atchison, KS
Founded 1857Above: Monks and Monastery from 1955 Publication of LIFE
Saint Mary’s Abbey
Newark, NJ
Founded 1857Above: Community in 1927 with Abbot Bertrand Dolan, O.S.B.
The Civil War
Fr. Emmeran Blimmel, O.S.B.First American Catholic Chaplain killed in an American War
Killed during the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia
Wednesday, August 31, 1864
Wimmer’s Formula for
A Successful Foundation
2. Start a Parish
3. Found a School
Success!
1. Own the Land
Stability Adaptabilityand
Abbot-Sons of Saint Vincent, ca. 1894. Front Row, L-R: Benedict Menges, Saint Bernard, AL; Leander Schnerr, Saint Vincent, PA; Leo Haid, Mary Help of Christians, NC;
Innocent Wolf, Saint Benedict’s, KS; Hilary Pfraengle, Saint Mary’s, NJ. Back Row, L-R: Nepomucene Jaeger, Saint Procopius, IL; Unidentified Monk; Peter Engel, Saint
John’s, MN.