Former Abbot of the Heiligenkreuz Cistercian Abbey, The Servant Of God, Abbot Karl Braunstorfer O.Cist., was born Heinrich Braunstorfer on May 3, 1895 in Katzelsdorf, Austria.
Entering the Abbey of Heiligenkreuz of the Cistercian Monks, on August 22, 1914, he made his monastic profession on August 23, 1915 and took solemn vows on September 8, 1918.
Ordained to the priesthood on February 24, 1919, on the following September 21, he was named novice master of the Abbey students. Appointed prior and parish priest in Heiligenkreuz on December 23, 1933, Dom Karl served furthermore as dean of the Abbey between 1943 and 1945, and superior of the Carmelite nuns in Mayerling.
At 50 years of age he was elected Abbot of Heiligenkreuz, receiving his Abbatial Blessing on the following day from Cardinal Theodor Innitzer. He served in the latter office till 1969.
Attending the Second Vatican Council as Abbot Præses of the Austrian Cistercian Congregation, having returned to Heiligenkreuz he implemented there the liturgical renewal in the way he as one of the Council Fathers understood it: in great continuity with liturgical tradition, without rupture, maintaining and indeed reinvigorating Latin Gregorian Chant as the form of expression proper to the Roman Liturgy. After having resigned as Abbot due to the frailty of age, he dedicated his last years to the re-edition of the Latin Cistercian Office.
Abbot Braunstorfer passed away on September 20, 1978, aged 83, and was interred in the Abbey's Cemetery six days later.
On Saturday, November 15, 2008, the beatification process of this former Abbot and Præses of the Congregatio Austriaca Ordinis Cisterciensis was solemnly opened in the Abbey Church by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn OP.
Entering the Abbey of Heiligenkreuz of the Cistercian Monks, on August 22, 1914, he made his monastic profession on August 23, 1915 and took solemn vows on September 8, 1918.
Ordained to the priesthood on February 24, 1919, on the following September 21, he was named novice master of the Abbey students. Appointed prior and parish priest in Heiligenkreuz on December 23, 1933, Dom Karl served furthermore as dean of the Abbey between 1943 and 1945, and superior of the Carmelite nuns in Mayerling.
At 50 years of age he was elected Abbot of Heiligenkreuz, receiving his Abbatial Blessing on the following day from Cardinal Theodor Innitzer. He served in the latter office till 1969.
Attending the Second Vatican Council as Abbot Præses of the Austrian Cistercian Congregation, having returned to Heiligenkreuz he implemented there the liturgical renewal in the way he as one of the Council Fathers understood it: in great continuity with liturgical tradition, without rupture, maintaining and indeed reinvigorating Latin Gregorian Chant as the form of expression proper to the Roman Liturgy. After having resigned as Abbot due to the frailty of age, he dedicated his last years to the re-edition of the Latin Cistercian Office.
Abbot Braunstorfer passed away on September 20, 1978, aged 83, and was interred in the Abbey's Cemetery six days later.
On Saturday, November 15, 2008, the beatification process of this former Abbot and Præses of the Congregatio Austriaca Ordinis Cisterciensis was solemnly opened in the Abbey Church by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn OP.
Former Abbot of the Heiligenkreuz Cistercian Abbey, The Servant Of God, Abbot Karl Braunstorfer O.Cist., was born Heinrich Braunstorfer on May 3, 1895 in Katzelsdorf, Austria.
Entering the Abbey of Heiligenkreuz of the Cistercian Monks, on August 22, 1914, he made his monastic profession on August 23, 1915 and took solemn vows on September 8, 1918.
Ordained to the priesthood on February 24, 1919, on the following September 21, he was named novice master of the Abbey students. Appointed prior and parish priest in Heiligenkreuz on December 23, 1933, Dom Karl served furthermore as dean of the Abbey between 1943 and 1945, and superior of the Carmelite nuns in Mayerling.
At 50 years of age he was elected Abbot of Heiligenkreuz, receiving his Abbatial Blessing on the following day from Cardinal Theodor Innitzer. He served in the latter office till 1969.
Attending the Second Vatican Council as Abbot Præses of the Austrian Cistercian Congregation, having returned to Heiligenkreuz he implemented there the liturgical renewal in the way he as one of the Council Fathers understood it: in great continuity with liturgical tradition, without rupture, maintaining and indeed reinvigorating Latin Gregorian Chant as the form of expression proper to the Roman Liturgy. After having resigned as Abbot due to the frailty of age, he dedicated his last years to the re-edition of the Latin Cistercian Office.
Abbot Braunstorfer passed away on September 20, 1978, aged 83, and was interred in the Abbey's Cemetery six days later.
On Saturday, November 15, 2008, the beatification process of this former Abbot and Præses of the Congregatio Austriaca Ordinis Cisterciensis was solemnly opened in the Abbey Church by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn OP.
Entering the Abbey of Heiligenkreuz of the Cistercian Monks, on August 22, 1914, he made his monastic profession on August 23, 1915 and took solemn vows on September 8, 1918.
Ordained to the priesthood on February 24, 1919, on the following September 21, he was named novice master of the Abbey students. Appointed prior and parish priest in Heiligenkreuz on December 23, 1933, Dom Karl served furthermore as dean of the Abbey between 1943 and 1945, and superior of the Carmelite nuns in Mayerling.
At 50 years of age he was elected Abbot of Heiligenkreuz, receiving his Abbatial Blessing on the following day from Cardinal Theodor Innitzer. He served in the latter office till 1969.
Attending the Second Vatican Council as Abbot Præses of the Austrian Cistercian Congregation, having returned to Heiligenkreuz he implemented there the liturgical renewal in the way he as one of the Council Fathers understood it: in great continuity with liturgical tradition, without rupture, maintaining and indeed reinvigorating Latin Gregorian Chant as the form of expression proper to the Roman Liturgy. After having resigned as Abbot due to the frailty of age, he dedicated his last years to the re-edition of the Latin Cistercian Office.
Abbot Braunstorfer passed away on September 20, 1978, aged 83, and was interred in the Abbey's Cemetery six days later.
On Saturday, November 15, 2008, the beatification process of this former Abbot and Præses of the Congregatio Austriaca Ordinis Cisterciensis was solemnly opened in the Abbey Church by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn OP.
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The Heiligenkreuz Abbey (Stift Heiligenkreuz, Closter Heiligen Creyz Or Santa Crux), Is A Cistercian Monastery In The Village Of Heiligenkreuz, The Southern Part Of The Vienna Woods, Eight Miles North - West Of Baden In Lower Austria.
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