CHURCH: Benedictine Fathers, Cambria Co., PA - pp. 3-8 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Romayne Shay McMahon OCRed and proofread by Judy Banja jbanja@comcast.net Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ ________________________________________________ THE BENEDICTINE FATHERS IN CAMBRIA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By the Rev. Modestus Wirtner, O.S.B. PERMISSU SUPERIORUM Copyright 1926 Rev. Modestus Wirtner, O.S.B. 3-4 ST. BENEDICT'S CHURCH CONTENTS St. Joseph's Church 9 The First Settlement 11 Catholic Missions 12 The First Mass in Western Pennsylvania 13 Father Gallitzin at Loretto 14 Biographical Sketch of Demetrius A. Gallitzin 15 The Second Church in Cambria County, Ebensburg 16 Pioneers of St. Joseph's Church 16 St. Joseph's Church 17 St. Joseph's Church. "Hart's Sleeping Place" 18 Subscription List to Build St. Joseph's Church 18 Building of St. Joseph's Church 20 Date of Dedication of St. Joseph's Church 20 Bishop Kenrick Visits the Mountains 21 The Benedictines at St. Joseph's Church 23 The Rev. Peter Henry Lemke, O.S.B. 27 Lemke a Luthern Preacher 28 Lemke a Catholic Priest 31 Lemke Goes to America 31 Father Lemke's First Meeting of Father Gallitzin 36 Lemke Pastor of Ebensburg 38 Lemke's Baptismal Register for 1834-35 40 The Experiences of a Missionary 41 Lemke Pastor of St. Joseph's Church 43 "The Old Chapel" at Carrolltown 45 Lemke Buys a Farm at St. Joseph's Church 46 Father Lemke's Dwelling at Carrolltown 47 The New Location of Carrolltown 49 Lemke Takes a Vacation 52 The Rev. Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. 53 The Rev. Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. 54 Rt. Rev. Aurelius Stehle, O.S.B. 56 Lemke Sells Lots in Carrolltown 57 Lemke Returns to Carrolltown and Becomes Benedictine Monk 59 Lemke Leaves for Kansas 60 A New View of St. Vincent Archabbey, College and Seminary 61 Lemke in New Jersey 63 Father Lemke's Death 64 Life of St. Benedict 69 Spread of the Order Over Northern Europe 75 The Benedictines in the United States 78 The Medal of Saint Benedict 80 Instruction on the Medal of Saint Benedict 81 The Cistercian or Trappist Monks at Carrolltown 85 The Diamond Jubilee 95 Introduction 97 St. Benedict's Church 98 St. Benedict's Church, Carrolltown 99 The Very Rev. Celestine Englbrecht O.S.B. 100 The Subscription List for a Church 101 The Rev. Peter Lechner Begins the Church, also at Glen Connell 104 The Very Rev. Benedict Haindl 106 The Very Rev. Celestine Englbrecht, Dedication of the Church 106 The Missions Attended from Here 108 The Very Rev. Ildephonse Boeld. Final Statement 109 The Very Rev. Celestine Englbrecht 111 The First Parochial School 112 High Altar, St. Benedict's Church 113 Bishop Young, Bishop Wirtner 114 St. Benedict's Parochial School 115 The Very Rev. Utho Huber. The Mission. The Cemetery 116 The Very Rev. Otto Kopf. The Cemetery. The Stoves 116 The Very Rev. Giles Christoph. Small Pox Epidemic 118 Nicktown. The Church Enlarged. The Monastery Built 118 The Very Rev. Benno Hegele 119 The Sisters. Parochial School 119 The Very Rev. Aemilian Wendel. Jos. Behe's Saw Mill 120 The Very Rev. Amandus Kramer. The Tower 120 The Bells 121 A First Mass, Father Anthony, Father's Ambrose and Denis 122 First Brick Parochial School House 123 Farewell to Prior Kramer 124 The Very Rev. Otto Kopf, O.S.B. Father Vincent Huber 124 St. Benedict's High Altar 125 The Rev. Modestus Wirtner. Joseph Eger 126 The Rev. Louis Flick and Alcuin Maucher 126 The Very Rev. Benedict Menges. Painting Outside of the Church 127 The New Congregation at Hastings 127 The Very Rev. Raymund Daniel. Patton, Spangler, Churches 128 The Very Rev. Michael Hofmayer. The Rev. Aloysius Luther 128 The Rev. Agatho Strittmatter and Denis Severin 129 The Very Rev. Emmeran Singer. Silver Jubilee of Rev. Anthony 129 Golden Jubille of St. Benedict's Church, 130 The Monastery Destroyed. Father Clement and Bakerton 131 The Very Rev. Leopold Probst. Death of Rev. Celestine 132 The New Organ. Dedication of Bakerton Church 132 The Enlarged Parochial School Building Blessed 133 The Very Rev. Thomas Wolf. The Enlarged Cemetery Blessed 134 The Rev. Michael Hlafcak, Alto Hecker, Malachy Brawley 134 The Very Rev. Thomas Wolf, O.S.B. 135 The Church. Is it a New Building? 136 Rev. Claude Geary, O.S.B. 137 Donors of Windows 138 The Church Committee and the Organists 139 St. Scholastica's Convent, Carrolltown 140 St. Benedict's School 141 Pastors and Assistants 142 Benedictine Monastery, Carrolltown 144 Missionary Work and Outside Missions 145 Vocations to the Priesthood and Religion 146 Names of Sisters of the Parish of St. Benedict, Carrolltown 147 A Group Picture 149 Societies of St. Benedict's Church 150 World War Service Men 152 Rt. Rev. Vincent Huber, O.S.B. 154 Soldiers Buried in the Cemetery Here 155 Chronological Events 156 Carrolltown, "Know Your Town" 165 Notes 183 ST. BENEDICT'S CHURCH 5 DEDICATION This Book is Dedicated to the people of Saint Benedict's Parish, Carrolltown, Pennsylvania. 6 ST. BENEDICT'S CHURCH RT. REV. E. A. GARVEY, D. D. [photo] ST. BENEDICT'S CHURCH 7 PREFACE The following pages were written in order to gather up the fragments lest they be lost. The first part, the history of St. Joseph's Church, gives the correct year of building St. Joseph's Church, the date of the Dedication, the year in which the Rectory was built, and a list of the Priests in charge of the congregation. The second part: The life of The Rev. Henry Lemke, O.S.B., gives the exact time when he bought his farm at St. Joseph's, when he changed the location of his prospective town, Carrolltown, and incidently to show why the town was called Carrolltown, and when the first houses were built in the town. The third part: Gives the year when the Cistercian Monks, sometimes called the Trappist Monks, lived here in the vicinity of Carrolltown. The fourth part, the History of St. Benedict's Church was written for the special occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of the Dedication of the Church. If these few pages brush away the cobwebs from the mind of the reader, the writer will regard himself as adequately rewarded. 8 ST. BENEDICT'S CHURCH RT. REV. JNO. J. McCORT, D. D. [photo] Bishop of Altoona