Missionaries of Mariannhill

The congregation of the Missionnaires of Mariannhill was founded by the Trappiste Franz Pfanner in South Africa in 1882.

The Pfanner Father was born in 1825 in the Voralberg in Austria, where he was secular priest before entering to the monastery of Mariawald. Then it founded that of Marija Zvijezda in Bosnia-Herzégovine, of which he was the superior of 1869 with 1880.

In 1882, with 30 monks Trappists come like him from Bosnia, it founds Mary-Anne-Hill (Mariannhill) in the British colony of Natal (South Africa). This monastery becomes abbey in 1885, and he is the first abbot.

Monasteries are founded in Zwaziland, in Lesotho, in Botswana; The P. Pfanner extends a network of missions in the south of the province of Native, surrounded by schools animated by teaching nuns, of which sisters of Invaluable Blood (founded by the P. Pfanner).

The missionary activity did not coincide with the rule Trappist. Also, in 1909, the pope Pie X it separated Mariannhill about the Trappists.

He resigns in 1892 to live as a hermit until his death in 1909 with the mission " Emmaüs" in South Africa. It is buried in Mariannhill, head office of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill.

Internal bonds

Religious orders alphabetically

External bonds

Missionaries of Mariannhill, in English

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