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An American abbot : Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., 1809-1887 / Jerome Oetgen.
LIBRA BX4705.W58 O34 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oetgen, Jerome, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wimmer, Boniface, 1809-1887.
- Wimmer, Boniface.
- Abbots--United States--Biography.
- Abbots.
- United States.
- Benedictines--United States--Biography.
- Benedictines.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 466 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- This volume is a newly revised and expanded version of An American Abbot, the biography of Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., published twenty years ago 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-457) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813208939
- OCLC:
- 36548885
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