About Boniface Wimmer
[Wikidata] Founder of first American Benedictine monastery (1809-1887)... | [Wikipedia] Boniface Wimmer (1809–1887) was a German Catholic prelate who in 1846 founded the first Benedictine monastery in the United States, Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The abbey was officially recognized in 1855, when Wimmer also founded the American-Cassinese Congregation of Benedicti
