Benedictine College - Raven Yearbook (Atchison, KS)

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fi- au: ,4'l,g??.H,iJ-:5,- K, ,E X R 26 0 ix V51-2 ffk H1StOfy Q ,VAT ff' V 1 J , f i f jr-1 L ' -T .4-ay .1 fri J' REV. AUGUSTINE WIRTH, O.S.B. First President ST. BENEDICT,S, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE The characteristic marks underlying all true progress are prayer, work. and study. No great work is written, no wondrous discovery made, no barbarous land civilized without pro- portionately great labor, thought, and hope. In the history of the early Benedictines in Kansas we find these qualities already a part of the spirit of St. Benedict's. When hardy pioneers laboriously fought their way into the vast territory of the middle west there arose a real need for missionaries. Not only were the red men to be civilized and converted to the church of Christ, but the spiritual wants of the rapidly growing throngs of early settlers demanded at- tention. Urged on by the spirit of prayer and labor, these Benedictines progressed into the heart of the new country. Nor was this all. Soon there arose an even greater need for educa- tion, for Catholic schools and Catholic teachers. Possessing, also, that third quality of true progress, the spirit of study, these Benedictines were well fitted for any task which awaited them in the territory of Kansas. ln 1856, Father Henry Lempke, O.S.B., was the first of these Followers of St. Benedict to set foot on the Kansas soil. After much patience and zealous labor he erected a small mission church in a rapidly growing town beside the Missouri, known as Doniphan, Kansas. In answer to the urgent necessity for' a Catholic school in the middle west and upon the request of Bishop J. B. Miege, S.J., of Leavenworth, he undertook the tremendous task of establishing a Catholic Institution of learning in this part of Kansas. More Benedictines soon followed him to Doniphan, and the seeds of St. Benedict's College were sown in this frugal beginning. Father Augustine Wirth, O.S.B., one of those Twenty-six