An American Abbot: Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. 1809-1887

This volume is a newly-revised and expanded version of An American Abbot, the biography of Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., originally published in 1977 by the Archabbey Press. In preparing this edition, Jerome Oetgen has thoroughly reexamined the primary sources, added material from additional sources, and taken into account the results of scholarly research on American Catholic and Benedictine history published since 1976. The achievement of Boniface Wimmer, the father of theBenedictine presence in the United States, has been generally under-estimated in the history of American Catholicism. This biography assesses his lasting importance.

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