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The Monastery, 1 Abbot Francis Rd, Mariannhill, Pinetown, 3610
Phone:+27 700 4251
Fax:+27 700 4251
Email:info@mariannhillmonastery.org.za
HISTORY OF THE MARIANNHILL MONASTERY
In 1882 Prior Franz Pfanner of the Reformed Cistercians (Trappists) intended establishing a Trappist Monastery and commencing the work of evangelisation among the local Africans. In 1885 he became Abbot of the new foundation which he called Mariannhill. He resigned from office in 1893 and was succeeded by Abbots Amandus Scholzig who died in 1900 and Gerard Wolpert. Abbot Franz Pfanner died on the 24 May 1909, and about the same time Rome separated the Mariannhill Abbey from the Trappist Order. Mariannhill was constituted an independent Missionary Congregation with the official title: The Congregation of Missionaries of Mariannhill (CMM).