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Oswald W. Moosmuller was born on February 26, 1832, into a wealthy family at Aidling in the Bavarian Alps.
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Erik the Red, Leif the Lucky and Other Pre-Columbian Discoverers of America
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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE THE present volume, devoted to the history of voyages of discovery said to have been made to America before the time of Columbus, serves as a proper introduction to the biographical sketches of Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro, contained in this series — a fitting prelude to the thrilling trilogy of the three great explorers who discovered the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Chili and Peru. It embraces, the discovery of Greenland by Erik the Red; the expedition of Biorn, son of Hjerulf, who first saw the east coast of North America but made no landing, upon it; the highly interesting voyage of Leif the Lucky, son of Erik, to the New England coasts in the vicinity of Cape Cod and Rhode Island; the expeditions of Thorwald, Thor-stein, Thorfinn, and the inhuman Freydisa, to the same region; the somewhat mythical story of Madoc, the Welsh prince, who, if the story be true, must have gone as far south as Florida; the still more mythical adventures of the brothers Zeno of Venice; and the interview of Columbus with the Bishop of Skalholt in 1477, fifteen years before he sailed in search of the East Indies and found the West Indies. There is now but little doubt that the Northmen were the first to reach the American continent, that they discovered Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia or Markland, and Vineland or the region adjacent to Cape Cod, and that they may have sailed as far to the south as New York. The sagas of Iceland, the poems of the Skalds, and the documents collected and printed by the Northern Antiquarian Society of Denmark bear incontrovertible testimony to the truth of these discoveries. When we come, .however, to the alleged expedition of Madoc, the prince, we at once find ourselves in a region of immemorial dispute. The evidence on Madoc's skte is purely circumstantial. The tradition, however, which is three centuries old, has been accorded a place in history. It originated with the Welsh bards, but their sources of belief, or registers, are unknown. The strongest argument in its favor is the statement made by two or three different authorities that "white'* Indians, or Indians hghter than their fellows, were found in this country in the seventeenth century, who spoke the Welsh, or a language resembling it, and were descendants of the Welsh who came with Madoc and never went back to Wales. No such Indians, however, have been known during the last century and no mention of the tradition is made by contemporaries. The question, however, will always be an open one. It has stout defenders as well as opponents. In spite of the many objections raised against it, it may be true, but, in the meantime, as the years go by and no original records or registers of the Welsh bards are discovered, the probabilities grow more and more cloudy. The narrative of the Zeno brothers has some able champions, while others, equally able, denounce it as a fiction, devised to strip Columbus of his honors. If it be true, the discoveries of these Venetians exceed in importance and extent those of Columbus, for they must have traversed the whole Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico and penetrated Mexico and Yucatan. The first knowledge of the countries said to have been visited by the Zeno brothers was furnished by a fisherman, which of itself is a suspicious fact, considering the abilities of that class in fiction. The letter left by Nicolo, eldest of the brothers, makes allusion to so many islands which must have sunk to the bottom of the sea if they ever existed, abounds in so many historical discrepancies, and so mixes up Daedalus, Icarus, and other classic fabulous names, in the frozen region, as to tax belief in its truthfulness. The existence of this letter and other papers and of the map upon which the alleged voyages are traced, is a strong argument, but even then the question arises whether they may not have been fabricated for a purpose. Even the stoutest ...
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St. Vincenz in Pennsylvanien (Classic Reprint)
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William Oswald Moosmuller
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He was trained by tutors and in the old Benedictine College of Metten in the diocese of Ratisbon, where he learned of the pressing need for missionary priests among the German immigrants in the United States.
Career
He entered the Benedictine order, and at the end of his novitiate, in 1852, was sent to St. Vincent's Abbey at Latrobe, Pennsylvania, then under the distinguished Boniface Wimmer. Here he completed his theological studies and was ordained to the priesthood in 1856 by Bishop Michael O'Connor.
After two years as an assistant in Father Gallitzin's old Carrolltown mission and in Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, New York, under the pioneer German priest, Vicar-General John Raffeiner, he was sent to St. Joseph's Church, Covington, Kentucky.
In 1859, he went to Rio de Janeiro as a missionary to the newly arrived Germans and as a supervisor of the Benedictine program of agricultural and trade schools in Brazil. Although this task proved exceptionally difficult, because of the political anti-clericalism under Pedro II, permanent foundations were laid for subsequent work.
After two years, he was transferred to Sandwich, Ontario, as superior of a Benedictine monastery whose growth was thwarted by the economic consequences of the American Civil War.
In 1863, he commenced a term of three years as prior of St. Mary's in Newark, New Jersey, a center of German missions for a large area in New York and New Jersey. He was then named procurator of the American congregation and director of St. Elizabeth's Seminary in Rome where, incidentally, he trained Hilary Pfraengle, later abbot of St. Mary's in Newark, and Innocent Wolf, later abbot of St. Benedict's monastery, Atchison, Kan. Upon the seizure of Rome by the Italian armies under King Victor Emmanuel, Dom Oswald returned to America, served as prior and treasurer of St. Vincent's Abbey, 1872 - 1874; as superior of St. Benedict's Abbey in Atchison, 1874 - 1877, where he also acted as an army chaplain and ministered among the Indians; and as superior of a colony of Benedictines who were working among the negroes in Alabama and Georgia. At Skidaway near Savannah he established an agricultural school in which his interest was so intense that he refused to leave it to accept election as first abbot of Belmont Abbey in North Carolina.
In 1892, he was selected to organize the monastery of Cluny at Wetaug, Illinois, where he labored in the fields and at the desk for the rest of his life.
He died on January 10, 1901, on a pallet of straw among the books in his library, at Cluny Monastery, Wetaug, Illinois.
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Erik the Red, Leif the Lucky and Other Pre-Columbian Discoverers of America
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St. Vincenz in Pennsylvanien (Classic Reprint)
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