Frederick George Holweck
Frederick George Holweck (Friedrich Georg) (1856–1927) was a German-American Roman Catholic priest and scholar, hagiographer and church historian.
[edit] Life
He was a priest in St. Louis, from 1889 to 1892 as assistant pastor at the St. Francis de Sales Church,[1][2][3] He returned to the St. Francis de Sales Church in 1903 as pastor, in a time of reconstruction after the damage by the tornado of 1896.[4][5] The church was completed in 1908.[6]
His 1892 Freiburg dissertation collected 940 Marian feasts and customs.[7] He supported the St Louis Catholic Historical Society, as an original researcher into the local history of the diocese and in other fields.[8] His manuscripts are held by Saint Louis University.[9]
At the end of his life he was honored with the title Monsignor,[10] and appointment as domestic prelate to the Pope.
[edit] Works
- Fasti Mariani (Freiburg, 1892)
- Historical archives of the Archdiocese of St. Louis (1918)
- A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints (1924)
- The seal of confession;: A drama in five acts. Adapted from Father Spillman's story " A victim to the seal of confession." (1924)
- Calendarium liturgicum festorum dei et dei matris Mariae (1925), edition of the Fasti Mariani
[edit] Notes
- ^ [tm "ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: PREMIER LIBRARY SOURCES: 200 Years of St. Louis Places of Worship – 1770 – 1970"]. Slpl.lib.mo.us. tm. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "History". Thehillstl.Com. http://www.thehillstl.com/history_1890.html. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- ^ "Early (pre 1900) St. Louis Places of Worship". Genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com. http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/earlychurches.htm. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- ^ "About § St. Francis de Sales Oratory, St. Louis Latin Mass". Institute-christ-king.org. 26 November 1908. http://www.institute-christ-king.org/stlouis/stlouis-about/. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ John Francis Baldovin, Maxwell E. Johnson, Between Memory and Hope (2000), p. 400.
- ^ John Paul Cadden, The Historiography of the American Catholic Church, 1785–1943 (1978), p. 110.
- ^ [3][dead link]
- ^ "Dogtown History of Cheltenham and St. James Parish by P.J. O'Connor". Webster.edu. http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/dogtown/pj-book/pj-28-53.html. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
