- NORBERTIJNENABDIJ
BERNE
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- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
- Rev.
Siard C. Mickers, O. Praem.
- b. Monday, Jan. 30,
1854 – d. Saturday, July 22, 1922
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Our
brother Siard Mickers was born in Gemert, (GAY-mert) Holland
in 1854, vested at Berne
Abbey in 1873, and solemnly professed in 1878.
In 1893, Siard was appointed circator,
master of novices and professor of theology at Berne to replace Bernard Pennings,
who had come to the United States
that year.
Immigrating
to the
United States
in 1896, he took up the pastorship at St. Hubert
in Rosiere, the 4th parish to be taken over by the Norbertines.
In 1904, Siard became the first Norbertine pastor of Holy Cross in Bay
Settlement.
In
1920, Siard was appointed chaplain of Our Lady of Charity Convent in Green Bay,
where he died Wednesday,
July 22, 1922, at the age of 68.
