cLouo ,REGISTER August ‘ ‘ I‘IGHT ST. PAGE THE ’ Friday, 10,1931 _ a Growth Seminary Under arly- Of St. John’s Abbots Told E Is + 1 ' reprinting Abbot (Editor’s domiciled the Rupert Seidcnbusch We this brief history charter those little location shores of The note: of the early bound the institution in of instruction of quarters to previous had taught philos- are on one course was years picturesque lakes in confined John’s the these days of St. seminary accommodate the Cloud iska of those branches those St. and most of readers mystery, to to ophy seminary; in the property. Conscious The source won— monastic a community had by 01%. essen- those complete regions. tial qualifying have the der whom the for priests who had opportunity of reading them h to for the that the not they exigencies of the day contemplated this time The transfer attained such may growth en was missions. building, There accommodations of the day 46x50, called appeared in the A first This present dearth of of for advanced 1949. series of articles is stone (train- effected immediately the petition that the Abbot of «'was summer was a more a upon ap- upon satisfy. Wolf— the priests hardly Father erected and the demand in had based sketch prepared 1866; be ing in by of’the candidates for the the Father cornerstone to 18.97 late Alexius sacred Boniface proval of the can Wimmer the act. priory on a was presi- by Bishop Thomas L. speedily possible. Northman (1.876) laid met ministry, 0.S.B. ~It Hoffmann, first published he 'took make the AMERICAN to in steps ECCLE~ gang was raised the dignity of abbey as was as to was been log building had erected A an When Grace Paul July of the dent this period. of, St. Vicariate 28 improvements at Apostolic of in several direc- REVIEW in September, 1897.) by Pope Pius IX, with Abbot SIASTICAL on Ru- Bush by small farm in the on a the Northern Present Site Minnesota Removal tions. estab- Minnesota Early to Seidenbusch subsequently ‘ same year. was pert Benedict Heindl in Father 1859, —— Subsequently lished in they 1875, Abbot The Rupert Seid- foundation the Colleg- settled of over If the change Vicar Apostolic Min- Prior regret of Northern The administration of hundred near all-but-imposing edifice One Minne- this and any years ago St. enbusch Cloud ium the selected Anselmianum be its Rome, b ‘the banks to at location St. Cloud first western of from its Abbot. was on Othmar terminated in he nesota—as 1865; be and college; was wilderness. Its monastery sota ceased to served a a as the of Vicar. He Mississippi placed munificence Pope I‘.‘eo XII 'in- students of made and this unavailing, felt, for it Upon the completion Benedict of the Prior pre- succeeded by bountiful time boasted invited settle- the that 20. latter was now at was resources , point the basis paring the ministry duced Abbot for Locnikar enroll of in his vi- to operations. that buildings place became the buildinl, the at took determined community a Heindl, who to in short times students. stone and ment towns remove ' a Their cariate into this seminary. member St. John’s existence of abbey Feb. among fire a' 20, 1866'. and, the of was establishment its in it in the now to present with they all comfortably quarters a'marvelous as- How on prey up sum- sprang up were ra- sured, Thus its in for the students This Bishop the school 1893. student in year of of 1875- St. Paul of wolcomcd first 1867, its pidity. mer wrote late the in there graduated with degree 1856, of 76 when Founded secular the 17 bill comi- abbey was Abbot. Tho stylod St. were Energetic settlers the East ' from was Seminary Diocesan petitioningfor doctor philosophy of narians attendance. charter two in for St. the Louis Lake, and the col- years a busily about developing the set on John’s later. The Abbot, well of the pending be- Abbot seminary its Alexius aware lege retained charter Edclbrock was At latent wealth the North Star of name. fore_the advantages Territorial offered for study in Legislature: the abbey later day also adopted There considerable state. a Abbot Seidenbusch was a was “I suc- Eternal Wish the City, another sent much that the Right ‘ very the John. of St. inflow from the border provinces name ceeded in Abbatial the dignity and Reverend member of the community the Abbot to the of Benedic- With- increased, though still Canada, above all, of and, presidency of the seminary by Ab- a pow- Anselmianum the in qualify tinesm 1895 United to- States, Monsi- facilities. modest, for ul of immigrants from stream accommo- Alexius bot Edelbrock (1.876- er theology. in Boniface Wimmer, ' gnor larger dating number of stu- various of Europe, particu- may parts es- a 1889), under whose administration The tablish Diocese St. Cloud, of monastery his of order com- a dents, auspicious beginning lar] from Germany. an was the of subjects taught in the scope prising slight but portion the Stearns of county. We shall in a made in the fall of 1867. settlements he principal neg- seminary substantially were was ex- former vicariate, organized lect nothing to the full was Up this time the curriculum ensure to founded along the chief suc- water tended, the and attendance grew in 1889. ‘ the of undertaking.” cess of the seminary - included the classi- number and of great steadily. courses, a Its Bishops, the Most Rev. Dr. The erection of college cal only. This who those either‘disinclined a course or course com- were He secured from the Supreme Otto Zardetti Monsi- and the late seminary the first object of pleted, the candidates for the was order who lacked the lo- to resources or Pontiff, Leo XIII, June 16, Martin Marty, 0.S.B., Father ’sent on Dcmctrius’ gnor solicitudc. into the novitiate sent in cities at and plunged cate towns were privilege 1878, authorizing him majority the diocesan? their of It a have to was addi- the mother-house, necessary St. Vincent’s into the forests scattered or over and his in office seminarians to John’s. St. _ to tional successors laborers in the vineyard of in Pennsylvania, where they the promising prairies the of re- ex- such his create of subjects who, T h establishment, of St. the_Lord, it e and highly mained philosophical to territory. was tensive ex— pursue after studying philosophy two Thomas’ seminary, in" later merged pefilent that of good thelogical young and studies By the for three far of the men greater part law and the seminary, St. Paul years, canon one year, be selected new pro- from among promise after the of probation population Catholic. years, year theology was four found vided institution educa- the for the years, are people an and prepared for the had expired. then, Here, mission- was a new worthy, doctors these sciences, in tionof the secular of the clergy sacred 'ministry. * Moreover, ‘ the Most the of priests attached field, presenting rich prospects to ary "The rapid "development of the St. Paul province. Hence,f St. perpetulty of the monastic estab- abbey the performed missionary but difficulties. The settle- great and the growing popular- country John’s depended its seminary for lishment could be better not duty which enforced continuous far the ments and apart pro- were ity the of educational institution attendance—besides regulars the v1ded for than by training candi- absence from the institution life missionary a of the indeed for was conducted by the Benedictines of the students either b sent dates -—upon the monastery. long in time. fraught with sacrifices. John’s St. told the inad- diocesan Bishop neig bor- from soon on There or few semi- the of the White were organizing Besides settlers there very or purpose buildings. of the had semi: ing provinces that equacy .no haries in the Middle West something like several Indian tribes states, staff whose permanent a were of their nuies Edclbrock Abbot incroacod the own. that day, and St. John’s in of professors, therefore, spiritual requisi- interests needed atten-' on- a hastil outlines, This, in drawn building by magnificent addition the distin‘ction of being the tion Joyc made St. Vincent’s tion. was .. upon first ecclesias- is history of t of foot, five high, and 400 storios a pioneer e Catholic institution of for additional volunteers, As early venerable and with 1842, the as the Northwest. tical seminary in accommodations its kind cquippcd with ‘_ it. in the Northwest. encouraging Father, later Monsignor Ravoux, success. beginnings From insignificant it modern typo.-Thc of seminary Theological Seminary School in 1869 visited the southern St. a portion of the Cloud! at onward worked its and up way provided with ample quarters in behalf the was state of Indians, and Now it possible that, difficulties to despite ward the The was incorporate open act to a St. John’s the extension. in the services the new apostolic Fa- of department for philosophy institutions of and like a. sim- so many passed the Territorial seminary Abbot Berna rd Locnikar ther Galtier, who Minnesota left in theology. obliged it to ilar character, Legislature was and approved by was 1844, fill illustrious the in From the an page second annual confront. cata- retired the Edelbrock Governor Abbot from March 6, 1857. on history the pioneer period of of log, issued in with- andowmant, 1869, it Without Now the position 1889, and the Abbatial in appears members any the of young the state. that in this the first but with classes public support, following, year Abbot Ber- out in the community felt themselves any firmly year The population growth of organized. neces- In the good- fall unfnltoring tho the in were of installed. Locnikar nard not established and they an about was set chief the continue form part or- abbey sitated College- St. John’s to supply priests min- SEMINARY in of of JOHN’S to ST. a candidates lavishly who complet§d for same the Lord year t of seven ganizing college. e so Like ness his predecessor, he had, in a (seated left Pictured above spiritual ister the teaching staff. the the of of to wants order, who had just tho insti- the ont'orpricc, protected On seminary Nov. Ville diocesan accord- became 10 of the infant the seminary, days of 'the a same W. Bartholome, Peter congregations widely year Bishop scattered Coadjutor right) to their novitiate, so are and‘five R from semina spank, tution, sprang the to doors the of humble deeply institution been interested in develop- so Alcuin happy -—-from the St. Croix the Red of Bishop and Abbot to April, 1949, by Bishop Busch, signed in ing to agreement memory. of the Diocese of'St. taken an Paul which had soil ans the it from were opened the divinity to receive ing and students. were course, now river, Iowa Manitoba. and from Thiebaut, P.A. (left), Monsignor to C. Abbot Alcuin Deutsch, Standing Joseph F. Busch and the late enrolled, and two professors are taught root. Five youths he exercise frat? anxious to St. Cloud per- was the St. In 1851 Diocese of John and Father diocese, building by the The seminary erected Vicar General of 0.S.B. moral and dogmatic ‘ theology, issued who from was 'The priests its new ec- and work. neighboring the sonal supervision settlements over Paul Bishop first received its in John’s—(Bob 0.S.B., superior of St. diocesan institu- Eidenschink, and seminary, clesiastical the diocese the history, and philosophy. have rendered classrooms humble as a formed ' the introduced several important He attendance in the l the Joseph of Monsignor photo)‘ Priests Molitor The into operation September, 1950. tion, in institution person went of service in interest precious the that at not was classical exercises modifications in the and department during the who Cretin, brought with him time, non'subsoqucntly, period. during the souls officially Ground pioneer discipline first seminarians. of the and professor Blessing the Europe. year, priests from one two su- characterized still died, diocesan have Many semi- many are as a perintonded their I studies. Abbot Peter Engcl During his : administration, the the and but the day, fact burden-of that the bearing it the nary, , meg was to litigation in which tide immigration its some of at was only_ school worthy “of of been deemed the kind have the Abbot in Locnikar in Novem- died some the St. ex- Cloud height. property the A of number of immi- great or- diocese ranks the Ameri- of explain: entering the tenllvo why it ber, 1894, succeeded by 'and was re- der involved shortly mostly Germans, grants, was to after- came ceived Episcopate. patron-go. Abbot Peter Engel; who for 15 can ward, the college settle in the central the of transferred part was to St. Joseph, but in in the district which state, .1856 of it was \ I Stearns moved St. part. to county forms once Cloud more and a presided ‘It became the the by duty of Father was Alex~ over now Bishop iusHRoetzer. provides. sufficient Happy to We num- ber priests, the of and since set: succeeded b Father was are e ywho Anschar tlers Frauendorfer, almost exclusively Ger- were re- he tained the deemed'it prudent office to until 1863. Dur— man, se- the priests who could speak that Indian troubles which mg cure dis- language. tressed the'settlers in 1862, in— The Benedictines structions entirely suspended. were Log Cabin construction. Only few this before in'the newrbuilding years a of the had have port to a time Early the Benedictines College had taken in Pennsylvania. root Under the administration the of in 1856 Bishop Certin Early cor- first _ prior, John’s Father Othmar Wirtz, St. at dially urgently invited the and it resolved transfer both to was Superior, Abbot Boniface Wimmer, and monastery college what to was field activity the his to extend of known the Indian Bush, * as near the West. to the present Collegeville station, 10 I The invitation duly censid- was miles St. of Cloud. west in Vincent’s, St. April ered at and . , A change in the original charter the late the Father of PlASTERING BY— same year for this was necessary purpose, Demetrius Marogna, 0.S.B., de ac- and this made by of act was an companied by seminarians, I. two set State the Legislature, approved the arriving for out country, new Feb. amending the 1864, 6, pre- St. Paul May 2. at ' BROS. cou ov vious act. Later the month, the in mic- ' 'By this amendment the order northward sionaries departed to “establish authorized and to was for take of‘the place possession, _ (1' institution seminary in erect which an they had been originally Stearns by be known to county, destined—Saul: Rapids, of one the style St. John’s of and name tho the earliest settlements of the original whereas seminary,” state. South 4336 Abbott Avenue Gone All Faith, Says But Minneapolis Worst Hit of Korea Part and Plastering, lathing Only the Chunchon, the the fighting; thou- Korea. of course —- people Catholic the sands the people lost their - faith of of J re- . lives; the Chunchon prefecture, and, mains in 20 great over a area, ‘ Columban Father Hubert of the Catholics died of reported cent per Apostolic 3093 Prefect Hayward, acting hardship disease. “111111131! 5806 WALNUT or hit by hardest; this area—the of After their capital had under- the Korean war. eight changes of occupation gone i The tragic devastation suffered UN by and Red the Chun- forces, fit J the Kangwangdo province, of 'by chon that people have “the found v which capital, Chunchon is the truths their unshaken faith of / are in the that be understood fact their only consolation,” Father can this province lies half in North Hayward priest noted. The has Korea half in 'South Korea, and been edifiedby the people’s thirst fighting The the front. for the wherever MILESTONE. he sacraments ANOTHER across Columban Fathers charge of have them. ‘ came upon the province’s missions. Most the missions of and out- .. The killed priests Reds four of stations the Chunchon of prefec- the Columbans prefecture, two ture—all within the Reds’ “ on laid In Koreans, since the and two Triangle”—are less t - war now an building will seminary be started, fifth priest, The and ghost Many Catholics made towns. a a new" great GROUND with holy Bishop Busch plctured above with Father a - BLESSING THE 1949. is pris- Korean, died in Communist the mistake remaining of in their a Peter Lorsung, Cathedral, of St. Mary’s pastor at wtgr, months the six before ( when the Reds towns in 1950. first the ground- water the at on came ceremony was priests\ior the-left and Abbot Baldwin the right—(Bob at Father Hayward recalled. Besid furthering the of the The survivors training fled the St. time of in at s, ’event breaking which took place in September of Molitor photo) Monsignor Thomas Quinlan, the the Communists’ second occupa- Prefect Fathers Apostolic, and tion, feeling the’ anything, Seminary Lays Cornerstone even Bishop James Maginn, Phil Crosbie, and have had Cloud in its the frozen To road, better Diocese. than part was con- a Frank Canavan, all Chunchon, of staying under the Reds. in July, 1950, and captured were Catholic refugees discov- were still missing. privilege proud honor and struction is are by the Columbans ered far we are as an away Six parish churches Chun- of the Taejon Pusan, and and , as even on chon prefecture destroyed in islands off the Families were coast. share. split in the chaos; dead chil- to were of Consecrution Two dren buried the mountain— were on side; typhoid has spread now fatally. ' Scheduled in August Besides the chloromyce- need of tin fight» typhoid, to the Colum- Washingtom—The Most Rev. ban missioners pointed the out John B. Franz, Bishop-elect of necessity rehabilitating of the Most Dodge City, Kans., the. and ruined and neglected farm lands \ Painting Auxiliary Rev. ‘Loras T. Lane, the in the “We have much to area. new on Bishop-designate Dubuque, 1a., of build up,” said Father Hayward, will be ceremonies consecrated at “but, thank God, have the faith we 4 a last weeks in Au- set for the two the people build of on.” [NCWC to Bishop-elect Franz’ Epis- gust. Radio Wire] and by— copal consecration will take place structure Wednesday morning, in Aug. 29, louisiana-Cunada link Cathedral the the Immaculate of y Springfield, Ill. Conception, The J Evangeline’s will b Cardinal consecrator For Race x ti Samuel Stritch, and co-conse- will Bishop William be A: crators Church Point, La.-——A perma- Springfield O’Connor and of bridge between French- the nent Bishop Ma k K. Carroll Wichita. of spe’iking people Canada of and the Schlarman,‘ Archbish Joseph p French-speaking people of the will p’reach. Peoria, Evangeline Louisiana country of officiating prelates the The for built will be by the Grey Nuns of Bishop-designate consecration of the Cross, whose order was founded in Ottawa Three in- 1845. ceremonies Mon- Lane for at set Grey Nuns will begin teaching Raphael’s at in day, Aug. 20,- St. Lady Our the Sacred of Heart Arch- Dubuque, will be Cathedral, school here in the Coadjutor fall. Many of Binz, of bishop Leo the people Bishops of Southwest Louisiana, and Dubuque, consecrator, noun ‘called’ the Land Pueblo, Evangeline Willging of C. ‘of Joseph ' 3" SEVENTH‘AVENUE after Longfellow’s C'olo., Fitzgerald Edward A. famed 51. and 20 soum poem, BISHOP JOSEPH F. BUSCH blessed chilly Spring weather- On the other side of the deScendants Acadians Minn., of the Winona, co-consecrators. of are Father Bishop is William Renner, laid the St. of and the cornerstone for John’s rector dio- who by The will delivered evicted Nova be from were sermon , ‘seminary. At the right is Abbot Baldwin Dwors- seminary Collegeville, Aux11iary Scotia. in May of by 1950. A large Bishop Cody, the British 18th John P. in the cesan chak, 0.S.B.—(Register photo) crowd attended the ceremonies despite Minnesota’s Louis. century. St. ,L 1 \,