Abbot francis pfanner biography

Franz Pfanner, CMM (1825 – 24 May 1909), also anglicised as Francis Pfanner, was an Austrian Catholic monk and founder of what would become the Mariannhillers.
Franz Pfanner, CMM, also anglicised as Francis Pfanner, was an Austrian Catholic monk and founder of what would become the Mariannhillers.
He was born as Wendelin Pfanner on 20.09.1825 in the border town of Langen in Vorarlberg, Austria.

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                             Curriculum Vitae of Francis Pfanner

                              1825 Born on 20th September in Langen-Hub, near Bregenz (Austria).
                                        Parents: Francis Anton Pfanner and Anna Maria Fink.

                              1837 First Latin lessons in a neighbouring village.

                              1838 Attends Grammar School, firstly in Feldkirch, later in Innsbruck.

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Franz Pfanner

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An abbot, born at Langen, Vorarlberg, Austria, 1825; died at Emmaus, South Africa, 24 May, 1909. In 1850 he was ordainedpriest and was given a curacy in his native diocese. Nine years later he was appointed an Austrian army chaplain in the Italian campaign against Napoleon III, but the war was over before he could take up his appointment. After serving as chaplain to the Sisters of Mercy at Agram for several years, he went to Rome, and there saw the Trappists for the first time. Whilst waiting for his bishop's permission to join this order, he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In November, 1864, he was professed at the Trappistmonastery of Marienwald in Austria, and was made sub-prior a few weeks later. He again went to Rome in 1866, where he reorganized the well-known monastery at Tre Fontane. Then he conceived the idea of a foundation in Turk

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Franz Pfanner

Austrian Trappist abbot

Franz Pfanner, CMM (1825 – 24 May 1909), also anglicised as Francis Pfanner, was an Austrian Catholic monk and founder of what would become the Mariannhillers. He was a member of the Trappists, from whom the new order was branched off.

Pfanner founded the Mariannhill Monastery in South Africa and the Trappist Mariastern Abbey in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also founded the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood.

Life

Born to farmers Francis Anton and Anna Maria Fink Pfanner in 1825,^[1] Franz Pfanner attended high schools in Feldkirch and humanistic studies at Innsbruck. Later, he studied philosophy in Padua (1845) and theology in Brixen (1846). In 1848, he battled tuberculosis. On 27 July 1850, he was appointed parish priest at Haselstauden, near Dornbirn.

In 1859, he was appointed an Austrian army chaplain in the Italian campaign against Napoleon III, but the war was over before he could take up his appointment. After serving as confessor to the Sisters of Mercy at Agram for several years and op