The Irish standard., 1891-07-18

the Cincinnati see, then embracing a
goodly portion of the West and North
west Father Rese pleaded the cause
of the German-American Catholics SO
elaQ uentlY on the other side Of the
water that an organization, known as
the Leopold Verein sprang into exist
ence, with it's headq uarters at Vienna,
to send German speaking missionaries
to America That organization fur
nlshed the American church With many
devoted and Jealous priests. and the
American hierarchs were so we'll
pleased with Father Rese's success,
and SO grateful for bis labors, that they
chose him for the first prelate OF De-
troit when Michigan and the north
western adjacent territory were made
an episcopate in 1882. And here it may
be mentioned, by the way, that up( to
the time Of the appointment of the
present ordinary, Bishop Foley, Detroit
has had German speaking pre- lates. DR..
Lefevre, the second administrator, be-
in 6 a Belgian by birth, and DIR. Bor-
CESS, his successor, having BEEN born in
tbe grand duchy of Oldenburg.
Three German speaking priests, Faith
ers Sander], Hatscher and Tachenhens,
came to this country ia 1882 and went
to Wisconsin to labor among the Ger
man American Catholic colonists and to
minister also to the Catholic Indians,
and some seven years later Bishop Ken
rick of Philadelphia, wishing to provide
for the large number OF German Catho-
lies who had settled ia and about Pitts
burg. invited the Redemptorist Order
in which the German element has al.
ways been strong, to send missionaries
into that portion Of Che state. 1t must
not be imagined, though, that these
RedempJorists were the first German
missionaries to erter PENNSYLVANIA, in
which state Catholicity was originally
established mainly through German
Catholic Palatines. AS early as 1857
Rev. Theodore Schnelaer had charge Of
some 22S German Catholics in and about
Philadelphia, and Other missionaries to
the same people weie ReY. Ferdinand
Farmer. who was located at old st.
Joseph's; Rev. Charles Hebron, 1870,
the first pastor OF toe German Church
OF the Holy Trinity; Rev. Peter Hell
bror, his assistant; Rev. ]. N Goetz,
All intruder, despite tbs bishop; Rev.
Adam Britt, 1910; Rev. Francis Roloif,
1872, and others do wn TO the present day.
TO the aid of these priests came, in
l<846, Rev. Bonlface " Winner, O. S. g.,
who established at st. Viocent's, West
moreland county, the institution Of
which he subsequently, became the
uityed abbot. add who introduced into
this country the great Benedictine o1der
which has supplied the German-Amerl,
can Catholics witch SO many exemplary
and energetic priests. These two orders,
the Redeuptorists and Benedjctines,
have given the American Church no in
considerable portion Of its German
speaking cleWyulen, and not few of
these have attained great prominence.
The RedemptOrial must be considered
the more ancient order here, as their
organization at Pittsburgh dates back
to 1889, whence they spread, in 1912, to
New York, tho following year to Phila-
de!phis, ia 1S45 to Buffalo, and subse-
quent]y to @ number Of other places.
Their llrst representative in the Ameri-
can hierarchy was Right Rev. John
Nepomucene Neumann, the sanity
Philadelphia prelate, whose canOniZa-
tion hae been noyed at Rome, and at
the present day they have in Archbishop
Gross OF Oregon City one of the fore
most members OF the Catholic episcO-
pate. Their first American superior
was Rey. Bernard Hafkenscheid, who
was appointed in 1851, when an Amerl
can province was established, and it
was from their order that the Paulist
communitv sprang.
The Benedictines, from their first in
stitution in Pennsylvania. multiplied
their houses rapidly, spreading Into In
diana and other western and northwest
ern states and branching eastward to
New Jersey, and later still to New
York and New hampshire. They have
to-day five or SIX abbeys. beside many
monasterias and educational Institutes,
and they are laboring successfully
among the negroes, in North Carolina
and Georgia, and the Indians in some
of the reservations. They have given
the American hierarchy one archapbot
number of abbots and several bishops.
among whom may be mentioned Drs.
Marty, Fink. Seidenbusch and others.
OF the more noted priests they have
gwen to the United States may be
named Rev. Father Lechner, who
brought over the first Dovices to West
morelaDd; Rev Father Bonaventure,
the artist of the order; Rev. James
Zilllox, who became an abbot; Rev.
Leo Haid. who melited the same honor
down in North Carolina; Rev. Nicholas
Balleis of Brooklyn, who witnessed rhe
Knownothlng outbreak in Newark, in
1854: and host of other DEVOTED and
learned priests. Or prominent Re-
demptOrist priests of German birth or
extraction the following are worthy OF
special mention: Father Konings, the
theological orator; Rev. M. Muller.
whose devotional works enjoy so extern
siye q circulation; Rev. w. Loewekamp,
the successful missionary; Rev. Elias
Schauer. provincial; Rev, Joseph Hen
ming and many others in various parts
OF the country.