More scenes from our seminary woods walk yesterday. Here's a statue of gentle St. Francis with a lamb, in a beautiful stone grotto. The kids love this one. 
A tree-lined road. 
The old cemetery, tucked away in the woods. Many of the headstones date from the late 1800's.
Saturday, November 05, 2005
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IIRC one of the people buried there is John Singenberger, who was the Seminary's music director (and Archdiocesan music director as well), training both priests and lay church musicians in Milwaukee for 30+ years.
Singenberger came to Milwaukee from Cincinatti--and to Cincinatti from Regensburg, Germany, where he was educated in Catholic church music.
And yes, Regensburg was where B-16's brother was ALSO the choir director for years.
Amazing, when you think of it, how small the Catholic world really is...
Dad29, thanks for the comment! But I will tell you, I had to do some searching to decode it.
First, IIRC ... google it... Oh! If I Recall Correctly.
Then, B-16. What? Google it along with "blog"... OH! Pope Bendedict XVI!
Note to self: Never start reading blogs before coffee in morning.
Anyway, cool comment. I have to say I was shocked to hear from anyone who was familiar with these scenes!
Back in the late '60's/early /70's when I was a yout', the local Church musicians' guild held a spanferkel in the woods every other summer.
That was when Catholic church music actually was 1) music; and 2) appropriate for church.
Have wandered about there more recently, during middle-school Forensics tournaments held at St Thomas More HS--the old Pio Nono HS.
My mother was a boarding (!!) student at StMary's Academy in the mid-1920's, when there actually were houses on the EAST side of S. Lake Drive...and one of her classmates (who became an SSF nun) served as our first babysitter.
Sad to see how the Sem grounds have been chopped up lately, with the SSF's buying the new Major Sem dorm/chapel and the Archdiocese occupying the Minor Sem with bureaucracy and basketball.
You're on my blogroll. Keep up the work!
And, (finally,) I hope you and yours exercised the Toties Quoties plenary indulgence option while you were in the cemetery.
From 11/1 through 11/8, visit a cemetery, say an Our Father and a Glory Be and the Creed, and you will have obtained a Plenary Indulgence (usual conditions, Communion and Penance within two weeks either side...)
The tree-lined road is a gorgeous shot.
The sad part of the comments? I got the IIRC and B-16, but I'll have to google spanferkel.
As a descendent of Germans, I knew spanferkel.
But tee bee -- good luck with googling it! First all you get are German pages. If you type "translate: spanferkel" you'll get somewhere. But all it says is "suckling pig".
What is REALLY means, in English, is "pig roast"! There's just nothing as delicious as roasted pork hot off the spit, carved into slices to make into sandwiches on good rolls, with some great side dishes, all of it eaten off a paper plate while standing around with good friends and good cold beer on a hot summer day.
Now that I mention it... I think The Husband and I should plan one of those next summer. We've often talked about it. Hmmm... something to plan over the long, dark winter.
while I know this post was almost 2 years ago I would like to get info on the cemetary as my grandfather John Singenberger rests there. Please email me at jsingenberger@aol.com or see my blog the greger's of ca
John Singenberger actually never lived in Cincinatti. He came to Wisconsin directly from Germany where he was teaching music. He arrived in Milwaukee from Europe in April of 1873 and arrived at St. Francis on Good Friday. His 6 children were born at St. Francis in a house that used to be on the campus but was torn down in 1958.
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