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Show FOUNDER OF GREAT ABBEY IN SOUTH AFRICA Trappist Abbot Built Among the Kaffirs Kaf-firs One of the Largest Religious Establishments in the World. Abbot Francis PlYunier died recently in the Trappist abbey of Emmaus. in Natal, South Africa, ned j3 years. After being a secular priest for thirteen thir-teen years, he joined the Trappist Order Or-der at Mariwald. Rhlneland. Later he was sent to Bosnia, then just occupied by Austria, where he founded the Abbey Ab-bey of Mariastein, and left this places in 1880 with thirty monks to go to Africa, Af-rica, where the Abbey of Mariannhill, in the Kaffir country, owes him its ex istence. After resigning his post he went to Emmaus, Natal, South Africa, where he died. Both foundations of Abbot Francis were centres of civilization civiliza-tion and Christianity, but it is especially espe-cially Mariannhill, in Natal, which will perpetuate his name. It is one of the largest religious establishments in the world, counting in 1905 300 monks and maintaining twenty-two missionary stations in various parts of South Africa. It has a library of 19.000 volumes, vol-umes, one of the very best zoological and ethnographical museums, elementary, element-ary, industrial and agricultural schools. From its printing press it issued an English and Zulu dictionary, a periodical period-ical for the natives and several other publications. Connected with it are an orphan asylum and a flourishing home, and kindergarten. |