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mariannhill .org. The Mariannhillers, [2] [3] [4] officially named the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill ( Latin: Congregatio Missionariorum de Mariannhill; abbreviated CMM) [5] are a religious institute of the Catholic Church founded by Franz Pfanner. They were originally a monastery of Trappist monks founded in 1882 by Pfanner ...
Engelmar Unzeitig ( German pronunciation: [ˈɛŋl̩maʁ ˈʊnt͜saɪ̯tɪç]; 1 March 1911 – 2 March 1945), born Hubert Unzeitig, was a German Roman Catholic priest who died in the Dachau Concentration Camp during World War II on the charge of being a priest. He was a professed member of the Missionary Order of Mariannhill and assumed the ...
The Diocese of Mariannhill was erected on January 11, 1951 as suffragan to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Durban. The Diocese measures 12,612 square kilometers. As of 2017, the diocese had a population of about 329,575 Catholics. St. Joseph’s Cathedral was built in 1908, and is the seat of the Bishop of Mariannhill.
In 1909, the Trappists of Mariannhill were separated from the rest of the Trappist Order by decree of the Holy See to form the Congregation of Mariannhill Missionaries. One of the most notable Trappist theologians was Thomas Merton, a prominent author in the mystic tradition and a noted poet and social and literary critic.
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 ...
Missionary work has been of late years carried on amongst the natives on a very large scale, owing to the advent of some Trappists into the Colony of Natal, who afterwards were organised into the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill. They devoted themselves entirely to the evangelisation of the natives, and as statistics show, their ...
Mariannhill is a cluster of suburbs and townships in eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa . In 1882, Trappist missionary Father Franz Pfanner established Mariannhill Monastery 16 km west of Durban. [2] He promoted local development and opened schools, health clinics, craft workshops, printing presses and farms providing work ...
Odilo Weeger. Rev. Fr. Odilo (Otto) Weeger, CMM (14 October 1912 – 8 June 2006) was a Roman Catholic missionary in Matabeleland, Southern Africa. He arrived in Africa in July 1938 and was based at Mariannhill in Natal, South Africa. He was later transferred to Southern Rhodesia where he worked at St. Patrick's in Bulawayo before moving to ...
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