Frederick George Holweck

Frederick George Holweck (Friedrich Georg) (1856-1927) was a German-American Roman Catholic priest and scholar, hagiographer and church historian.

Life

He was a priest in St. Louis, from 1889 to 1892 as assistant pastor at the St. Francis de Sales Church, [http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/catholic/russ/rus-priests-h-i.htm] [http://www.eco-absence.org/stl/staloysius/history.htm] and from 1892 to 1903 as pastor at the St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church, in a temporary structure, for a mostly German congregation. [http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/s-stlworship.htm] [http://stlouis.missouri.org/neighborhoods/history/thehill/churches13.htm] [http://www.thehillstl.com/history_1890.html] 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. [http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/earlychurches.htm] [http://www.institute-christ-king.org/stlouis/stlouis-about/] The church was completed in 1908. [http://stlouis.missouri.org/neighborhoods/history/compton/churches10.htm]

His 1892 Freiburg dissertation collected 940 Marian feasts and customs. [John Francis Baldovin, Maxwell E. Johnson, "Between Memory and Hope" (2000), p. 400.] He supported the St Louis Catholic Historical Society, as an original researcher into the local history of the diocese and in other fields. [John Paul Cadden, "The Historiography of the American Catholic Church, 1785-1943" (1978), p. 110.] His manuscripts are held by Saint Louis University. [http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/archives/collections.html]

At the end of his life he was honored with the title Monsignor, [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/dogtown/pj-book/pj-28-53.html] and appointment as domestic prelate to the Pope.

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"

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