Cyrill Knoll

Cyrill Knoll (born October 18, 1813 in Schellenberg near Perasdorf , † December 22, 1900 in Scipio , Kansas ) was a Roman Catholic priest and Carmelite . Together with his brother Franz Xaver Huber , he brought this order to the United States .

Life

Cyrill Knoll (baptismal name: Johannes Evangelista) was ordained a priest for the diocese of Regensburg on July 31, 1838 . After his ordination he worked as a religious teacher at the preparatory school of the Ursuline monastery in Straubing . On November 12, 1846 he entered the novitiate in the Carmelite monastery in Straubing for the first time . After he left the novitiate on January 7, 1847, he worked as an assistant priest in Dingolfing . On June 7, 1849, he re-entered the Carmelite order and made his profession on June 9, 1850 . Five days before his profession he had been appointed confessor of the Ursulines.

On March 4, 1851, the bishop introduced him Valentin Riedel of Regensburg - with subsequent confirmation by the General of the Order - the Prior on. His appointment as Titular Provincial of Scotland is dated July 2, 1854. From October 1857 to April 1861, Knoll tried to set up a new branch of the order as prior in Pest / Hungary , but this failed.

Leander Streber, a Franciscan priest from Louisville, Kentucky , had brought sisters from the Ursuline Convent in Straubing to America in 1858. Encouraged by the hopeful reports, Cyrill Knoll had the idea to also settle the Carmelite order there.

In a letter dated December 22, 1863, he asked the Order General for permission to emigrate and, as Commissioner General, to found conventions in America . After approval by the general, he took leave of Straubing as general commissioner, which he remained until 1881, together with Father Franz Xaver Huber on May 2, 1864 . The Congregation for Religious gave official permission on May 7th to establish Carmelite settlements in the United States.

The tour company landed in New York on May 22nd. After a short stay there and a long stay in Louisville, Kentucky , the two Carmelites went to Kansas and accepted a parish in Leavenworth . This began with the Carmel foundations, which formed the basis for the later order province of the Purest Heart of Mary .

Cyrill Knoll died on December 22, 1900 in Scipio and is buried there in the St. Boniface cemetery.

literature

• Adalbert Decker: Karmel in Straubing, 600 years. Anniversary chronicle 1368–1968. Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome 1968, pp. 328-330 ( Textus et Studia Historica Carmelitana 8, ISSN  0394-7793 ).