Download PDF here This text was designed originally by sons and daughters of Abbot Francis Pfanner, the Missionaries of Mariannhill and the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood. Introduction We are about to walk the way of the Cross which our Lord walked on the day before he died, which Abbot Francis walked all his … Read more →

Download PDF here For the Sake of Silence in Critical Perspective With his novel For the Sake of Silence,1 Professor Michael Cawood Green offers us an alternative reading of Mariannhill’s history. However, in the process of transforming this history into a work of creative non-fiction,2 the author uses poetic license to endow historical facts with … Read more →

Download PDF here Bishop Paul -Werner Scheele, Wurzburg, Geramany: Mission In The Spirit Of Abbot Francis Pfanner “I want to tell you right at the beginning that I cannot offer you anything which you don’t know already.” These words were said more than fifty years ago here in the Pius Seminary. No less a person … Read more →

Download PDF here In Memory of Abbot Francis Pfanner (1825-1909) by Sr. M. Annette Buschgerd CPS We owe the most comprehensive account of Abbot Francis Pfanner’s last days, death, and burial to Fr. Joseph Biegner OCR, his companion and medical assistant at Emaus from 1905 to his death, 24 May 1909. Fr. Joseph writes: The … Read more →

Chapter 1: The founder of Mariannhill was a Trappist and also a very dynamic missionary. If no one wants to go, I will, was his reply to a bishop in 1879 who pleaded for Trappists to help him evangelize the local people of South Africa. Prior Francis had struggled for nine years to establish the … Read more →