- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
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- PIRAPORA,
BRASIL
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- OUR
LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION ABBEY
- DAYLESFORD,
PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A.
- Rev.
B. Norbert Mollen, O. Praem.
- b. Sunday, Sept. 18,
1887 – d. Monday, Dec. 10, 1979
Our brother
Norbert Mollen was born in Menasha, Wisconsin
in 1887, was vested in 1911, professed in 1913 and ordained in
1916.
He earned a Master’s degree from
Catholic
University
in 1923. After
being appointed pastor in Valier,
Montana
in 1929, he began a professorship in Garrison,
New York
in 1933.
He also served on the faculty of St. Norbert
College, De Pere, Wisconsin. For ten years after a transfer in 1940,
Norbert was a professor of English and Mathematics in the Priory of Averbode
Abbey in Pirapora, Brazil.
Norbert
became secretary/treasurer at Southeast Catholic in 1951, and moved with the
rest of the faculty to Bishop Neumann, when that opened in 1955.
In 1963 he became a member of Daylesford Abbey.
In
South Philadelphia, Norbert became known as “The Funeral Priest,” going out almost
daily to substitute for some pastor in celebrating the rites of burial of the
dead.
Norbert
died on
Monday, December 10,
1979 in Philadelphia, at the age of 92.
