Boniface Wimmer
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Boniface Wimmer was a German Catholic prelate who in 1846 founded the first Benedictine monastery in the United States, Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The abbey was officially recog
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Andrew Hintenach
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Andrew Hintenach, OSB was a German-born Catholic monk who served as the second archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania from 1888 to 1892.
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…its own coal, and brewed its own beer. Boniface Wimmer died at St. Vincent's Abbey in Latrobe on December 8, 1887, and was succeeded as archabbot by Andrew Hintenach. At the time of his death, there were ten Benedictine Abbeys in the United States founded by him. In his lifetime, he founded 152 Catholic parishes…
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Hintenach's headstone at St. Vincent Cemetery