Alfred Boeddeker

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P. Alfred Boeddeker (1971)

Alfred Boeddeker OFM (born August 7, 1903 as Anton Boeddeker in San Francisco ; † January 1, 1994 ibid) was an American Franciscan of German descent.

Life

Anton Boeddeker was the fifth of eight children of the German immigrants Joseph Ferdinand Boeddeker (* September 8, 1862, † 1940) and Bertha Boeddeker (née Gelhaus, * October 10, 1866 in Alhausen (Bad Driburg) / Westphalia, † September 2, 1949 born in Oakland ). After the family's home was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake , they moved to Oakland. In 1921 Anton Boeddeker entered the Province of St. Barbara of the Franciscan Order and was given the name Alfred . He studied theology at the college of his religious province in Santa Barbara . He was ordained a priest on June 11, 1927 , and he served as a pastor at St. Rafael Church in Goleta . Between 1930 and 1933 he studied canon law , theology, Italian, Spanish and German at the Franciscan Academy of the Athenaeum Antonianum de Urbe in Rome ; he completed his studies with the title Lector generalis . He then taught at the seminary in Santa Barbara for 15 years . At the same time he worked as a canon lawyer for the diocese of San Diego . In 1941 he founded the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady Queen of Peace .

He was to set up a Catholic university in Hankow in China on behalf of his order . To prepare for this, he enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley to study Mandarin , Japanese, and Russian as well as Chinese history and politics. After the Chinese Civil War , the plans for the university were abandoned. Thereupon Alfred Boeddeker was appointed pastor of Saint Boniface in Tenderloin in San Francisco in 1949; in that church he himself was baptized . He held the office until 1960 and then remained active as a pastor at the parish until 1980. In the parish he founded a Marian center with a library, in his order he headed the national Franciscan Marian commission from 1955 to 1979 as president. He was also a member of the Mariological Society of America and the International Marian Pontifical Academy .

He founded a dining room ( St. Anthony's Dining Room ) in Tenderloin in 1950 , in which up to 2500 meals are given out daily to the needy; In 1954 he initiated in Petaluma , the St. Anthony's Farm , which offers unemployed apartment and operation, as well as 1958 in San Francisco, a hospital ( St. Anthony's Free Clinic ).

Honors

literature

  • Madeline Hartmann: The Man behind the Miracle: the Story of Alfred Boeddeker, OFM Lost Coat Press, Fort Bragg 2000, ISBN 1-882897-40-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c findagrave.com: Alfred Anton Boeddeker
  2. ↑ Biography of Father Alfred Boeddeker, OFM In: The Marian Library / International Marian Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio: Jillian Slater: Guide to Father Alfred Boeddeker collection , 1963–1970, ML 003 [1] }
  3. ↑ web.archive.org
personal data
SURNAME Boeddeker, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Franciscan
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1994
Place of death San Francisco