"Burial of a Monk:
Father Antonius M. Scharman, who died at the Capuchin Monastery, Butler County, last Saturday, was buried this morning in the Monastery Cemetery.
At 9 o'clock a solemn requiem mass was celebrated, which was attended by twenty priests and about 1000 people from the town of Butler and the country districts. Father Scharman became a member of the Capuchin order is 1859, and in 1875 he came to this country. He was the Founder of the Capuchin Monastery in Cumberland, Md., Peoria and Metamora, Ills. He was also Superior of the Victoria Monastery, Kansas, and later Rector of the congregation under this order in Wheeling.
Owning to his failing health, he was forced to leave. He went back to Cumberland, from where he changed to Butler with a view of improving his health, but after a painful sickness of three months, he died."
-Pittsburgh Telegraph, Aug 2, 1887
Father Antonius M. Scharman, who died at the Capuchin Monastery, Butler County, last Saturday, was buried this morning in the Monastery Cemetery.
At 9 o'clock a solemn requiem mass was celebrated, which was attended by twenty priests and about 1000 people from the town of Butler and the country districts. Father Scharman became a member of the Capuchin order is 1859, and in 1875 he came to this country. He was the Founder of the Capuchin Monastery in Cumberland, Md., Peoria and Metamora, Ills. He was also Superior of the Victoria Monastery, Kansas, and later Rector of the congregation under this order in Wheeling.
Owning to his failing health, he was forced to leave. He went back to Cumberland, from where he changed to Butler with a view of improving his health, but after a painful sickness of three months, he died."
-Pittsburgh Telegraph, Aug 2, 1887
"Burial of a Monk:
Father Antonius M. Scharman, who died at the Capuchin Monastery, Butler County, last Saturday, was buried this morning in the Monastery Cemetery.
At 9 o'clock a solemn requiem mass was celebrated, which was attended by twenty priests and about 1000 people from the town of Butler and the country districts. Father Scharman became a member of the Capuchin order is 1859, and in 1875 he came to this country. He was the Founder of the Capuchin Monastery in Cumberland, Md., Peoria and Metamora, Ills. He was also Superior of the Victoria Monastery, Kansas, and later Rector of the congregation under this order in Wheeling.
Owning to his failing health, he was forced to leave. He went back to Cumberland, from where he changed to Butler with a view of improving his health, but after a painful sickness of three months, he died."
-Pittsburgh Telegraph, Aug 2, 1887
Father Antonius M. Scharman, who died at the Capuchin Monastery, Butler County, last Saturday, was buried this morning in the Monastery Cemetery.
At 9 o'clock a solemn requiem mass was celebrated, which was attended by twenty priests and about 1000 people from the town of Butler and the country districts. Father Scharman became a member of the Capuchin order is 1859, and in 1875 he came to this country. He was the Founder of the Capuchin Monastery in Cumberland, Md., Peoria and Metamora, Ills. He was also Superior of the Victoria Monastery, Kansas, and later Rector of the congregation under this order in Wheeling.
Owning to his failing health, he was forced to leave. He went back to Cumberland, from where he changed to Butler with a view of improving his health, but after a painful sickness of three months, he died."
-Pittsburgh Telegraph, Aug 2, 1887
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Antoinus Scharman was buried in the Capuchin Monastery Cemetery on Aug. 2, 1887
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