Education
He studied mathematics, physics and psychology.
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Wilhelm Oomens
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Career
In 1957 he was ordained as a priest. From then on he acted as teacher and director of a grammar school and was longstanding director of the centre of orientation and cultural studies in Limburg. Following heart surgery (1978), he was compelled to leave teaching, but continued as a priest in pastoral care in Sittard, Netherlands, near the border with Germany.
He enjoyed the work, so he asked the Bishop of Aachen, Klaus Hemmerle, to assign him a rectorate.
Thus, the Bishop of Aachen appointed him as pastor at Saint Antony, Eschweiler-Roehe, where he served until 2005. Here, he worked closely with the composer and church musician Franz Surges.
Meanwhile, continued as a painter. He died 27 June 2008 in Nijmegen.
The importance of this he accentuated in a multiplicity of homilies and unpublished writings).
Foreign him, he function of painting derived from his confidence in the importance of wondering and reverence.
