Johann von Lasser

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Johann Baptist Lasser, Ritter von Zollheim (born April 24, 1822 in Matrei in Osttirol , † December 25, 1889 in Lambach ) was abbot of Lambach Abbey from 1873 to 1889 .

Life

Johann von Lasser came from the Tyrolean knight family Lasser von Zollheim and was a cousin of the Minister Josef Lasser von Zollheim . He joined the Cistercian Abbey of Stams in 1842 and, after being ordained a priest in 1846, was pastor, subprior and pastoral lecturer at the theological home school of the monastery. In 1867 he transferred to the Lambach Benedictine Abbey, where he also taught theology and worked as a librarian until he was elected abbot in 1873. In 1874/75 he had the collegiate church restored and in 1883 the exterior of the abbey renovated. In 1883/84 he obtained from Pope Leo XIII. the official canonization of the long venerated founder of the monastery, Adalbero von Wels-Lambach († 1090). He died on Christmas night in 1889 of complications from a stroke.

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