Joseph Francis of Weckert
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Joseph Franz of Weckert (12 September 1822 in Wallerstein, 13 March 1889 in Passau) was 76th
Life
He was the son of the brewer-defender Franz Alban Weckert and his wife Maria Bosch. He graduated from the Gymnasium in Dillingen on the Danube in 1839. Afterwards, he studied philosophy at the Lyceum there, and since 1841 in Munich, he first studied the rights, then theology. In 1843 he entered the Dillinger clerical seminar.
Weckert was ordained a
The ecclesiastical authority exercised by his predecessor, Heinrich von Hofstatter, and the strictness in the education of priestly growth, were considerably weakened by him. Because of illness, Weckert had little contact with the citizens or his own clergy, because he could not conduct a single visitation and only a few confirmations. He died on 13 March 1889 and was buried in the cathedral before the Pauline conversion age. A simple monument remains on the wall next to the altar. It is also named after him, the Bischof-Weckert-Strasse in Wallerstein.
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