Benedictine Heritage Lecture Benedictine University March 7, 2013

2. Saint Procopius
Abbey
Founded 1885
Lisle, IL
Above: Early Classroom at Benedictine University

3. Stability and Adaptability

4. The
Holy Rule

5. The Rise of Monasticism
500 600 700 800
742
Saint Boniface
540 590 Apostle to Germany
Saint Benedict writes his
Pope Saint Gregory I
Rule
597
Saint Augustine of
Canterbury
766
Founding of Saint Michael’s Abbey
Metten, Germany

6. King
Maximilian I
Joseph
Of Bavaria

7. King
Ludwig I
Of Bavaria

8. Education and Monasticism

9. Metten Abbey
Founded 766

10. Boniface Wimmer Abraham Lincoln Charles Darwin

11. Stability and Adaptability

12. Early Saint Vincent
1877

13. Pope
Pius IX
1846 - 1878

14. Saint Vincent’s Brewery
and Gristmill

15. Saint John’s Abbey
Collegeville, MN
Founded 1856
Left: Illuminated Manuscript by Saint John’s Abbey

16. Saint Benedict’s Abbey
Atchison, KS
Founded 1857
Above: Monks and Monastery from 1955 Publication of LIFE

17. Saint Mary’s Abbey
Newark, NJ
Founded 1857
Above: Community in 1927 with Abbot Bertrand Dolan, O.S.B.

18. 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

19. Wimmer’s Formula for
A Successful Foundation
Success!
3. Found a School
2. Start a Parish
1. Own the Land

20. Young Man with Vocation
The Monastic
Monk in
Apostolate Circle of Life
New Monk
in Monastery

21. Stability and Adaptability
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.