Heinrich Stummer
The Redemptorist P. Heinrich Stummer CSsR (born April 27, 1940 in Nöham near Pfarrkirchen ; † July 15, 2005 in Kösching near Ingolstadt) was a lyricist of sacred songs , the founder of the Alfons Liguori Circle of Friends and the editor in charge of the Munich magazine Redemptorist Province “Letters to Our Friends”.
Heinrich Stummer, ordained a priest on May 31, 1971 by the Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Julius Döpfner , initially worked as vicar in the pilgrimage site of Schönenberg near Ellwangen . From 1976 to 1987 he worked from the Gars monastery as a youth pastor for the district of Mühldorf am Inn , then he lived for ten years until 1997 in the Redemptorist monastery in Ingolstadt . There he built up a lay community with the "Alfons Liguori Circle of Friends", the basis of which is the spirituality of the founder of the Redemptorists Alfons of Liguori . From 1998 to 2005 he was a member of the monastery in Cham (Upper Palatinate). Until his death he was the spiritual leader of the Freundeskreis. Stummer, who also organized and accompanied innumerable pilgrimages to the places where his order founder's work on the southern Italian Amalfi coast , provided songs composed by Saint Alfons with contemporary German texts. Together with the Alfons Liguori Boy Scouts, the youth branch of the Alfons Liguori Circle of Friends, he sang several CDs.
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| SURNAME | Mute, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stummer, P. Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lyricist of sacred songs |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nöham near parish churches |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 2005 |
| Place of death | Kösching near Ingolstadt |