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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 2 Hilda Adam Kring Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Winter 1975 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 2 Hilda Adam Kring Beulah S. Hostetler Francis J. Puig Monroe H. Fabian Louis Winkler See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag Part of the American Art and Architecture Commons, American Material Culture Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Cultural History Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons, Folklore Commons, Genealogy Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, History of Religion Commons, Linguistics Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Kring, Hilda Adam; Hostetler, Beulah S.; Puig, Francis J.; Fabian, Monroe H.; Winkler, Louis; and James, Pamela, "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 2" (1975). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 62. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/62 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Hilda Adam Kring, Beulah S. Hostetler, Francis J. Puig, Monroe H. Fabian, Louis Winkler, and Pamela James This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/62 WINTER 1974-75 St. Walburga Contributors to this Issue DR. HILDA ADAM KRING, Grove City, Pennsylvania, is professor of English at Grove City College. A native of Germany, she received her doctorate in Folklore and Folk­ life at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation analyzed the culture of the Harmony Society , which settled Harmony and at Economy in Western Pennsylvania and New Harmony in Indiana. She is a specialist in the study of folk religion, both Catholic and Protestant, American and European. BEULAH S. HOSTETLER, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, is a graduate student in Religious Thought at the Universi ty of Pennsylvania. She has done editorial work for the Men· nonite Publishing House (Herald Press) and more re cently has been associated with the Amish genetics project at Johns Hopkins University. FRANCIS J. PUlG, Philadelphia, is a native of Cuba and a student in the museum curatorship program of the Ameri­ can Civilization Department at the University of Pennsyl­ vania. He spent the summer of 1974 working in the El Paso Museum of Art and has re ceived a Williamsburg Fellow­ ship for the 1975 Seminars at Colonial Williamsburg. MONROE H. FABIAN, Washington , D.C., is a native of Northampton County, Pennsylvania. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he served as art editor for the New Catholic Encyclopedia and is now Associate Curator of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He is a specialist in the field of Pennsyl­ vania German fraktur and has written extensively on the subject. DR. LOUIS WINKLER, State College, Pennsylvania, is Professor of Astronomy at the Pennsylvania State University. His article in this issue is one of a series on Pennsylvania German astronomy and as trology, supported in part by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. PAMELA JAMES, Annapolis, Maryland, is working as a researcher in the Maryland Archives in Annapolis. She is a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where her work was done in the American Civilization Department. EDITOR: Dr. Don Yocler Winter 1974·1975 VOL. XXIV, NO .2 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Dr. Mac E. Barrick LeRoy Gensler Dr. H enry Classie Dr. John A. Hostetler David J. Hufford Contents Dr. Phil J ack Dr. Hilda A. Kring Dr. Maurice A. Mook Dr. Earl F. Robacker 2 The Cult of St. Walburga in Pennsylvania Dr. Alta Schrock HILDA ADAM KRING FOLK FESTIVAL DIRECTOR: Mark R. Eaby, Jr. FOLK FESTIVAL PUBLIC RELATIONS : 8 An Old Order River Brethren Love Feast Peg Zecher BEULAH S. HOSTETLER SUBSCRIPTIONS : D oris E. Stief 21 The Porches of Quaker Meeting Houses in PENNSYLVANIA FOLKLIFE, Chester and Delaware Counties Winter 1974-75, Vol. 24, No.2, pub­ lished five times a year by the Penn­ FRANCIS J. PUiG sylvania Folklife Society, Inc., Lan­ caster, Pennsylvania. $1.50 for single copies; Autumn, Winter, 31 John Daniel Eisenbrown, Frakturist Spring and Summer. $1.00 for Folk MONROE H. FABIAN Festival Supplement. Yearly sub­ scription $7.00. MSS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: 36 Pennsylvania Gennan Astronomy and Astrology The Editor will be glad to consider X: Christopher Witt's Device MSS and photographs sent with a view to publication. When unsuit­ LOUIS WINKLER able, and if accompanied by return postage, every care will be exercised toward their return, although no 40 The American Breakfast, Circa 1873-1973 responsibility for their safety is as­ PAMELA JAMES sumed. Editorial correspondence: Dr. Don Yoder, Logan Hall, Box 13, University of Pennsylvania, COVER: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174. St. Walburga, 19th Century devotional picture from Wissembourg in Alsace, center of popular religious Folk Festival correspondence : College Blvd. and Vine, printmaking. Editor's Collection. Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530. Folk Festival public relations: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 37: Peg Zecher, 717 N. Swarthmore Ave., Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081. Grandparents in Traditional Culture (Inside back cover) Subscription, business correspondence : Box 1053, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Contents copyrighted. Contributors to this Issue Entered as second class ma~ter at Lancaster, Pa. (Inside front cover) The Cult of St. Walburga in Pennsylvania By HILDA ADAM KRING "Deliver us from evil." These words from Christ's College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to serve as dietitian and own prayer often stand for one of the multitude cooks. From here the remarkable Mother Leonarda of illnesses which plague man. And many a man planned a convent-retreat complex at St. Emma's' in after going to a doctor turns with a fervent plea to nearby Greensburg. After Mother,. Leonarda's death the Divine Physician. Sometimes, feeling exceedingly in 1965, Mother Emmanuel continued to be a great humble, he may seek Him through an intercessor, an inspira tion for the shrine of St. Walburga. Unfor­ intercessor who appears to have been touched by God tunately her ' death in 1973 prevented her seeing its to help the sick. For some, such an intercessor is completion. Now Mother Agnes carries on the work. St. Walburga of Eichstatt who origin.ally came from T oday they h.ave for the retired nuns and novices a England to Germany as a missionary in 748 and as property of several hundred acres, a convent, a retreat­ a guiding light to the United States in 1852 when the house, a rectory, two chapels, and a shrine-a Wayside first Benedictine Sisters of St. Walburga came to Amer­ Chapel- in honor of St. Walburga, dedicated on May ic.a from Eichstatt in Bavaria to start a convent at 12, 1974. St. Marys in Elk County, Pennsylvania. Twenty-one The history of this shrine goes back to St. Walburga convents have sprung from this foundation.' But our in Eichstatt and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1903 immediate focus of St. Walburga returns to the Eich­ St. Walburga Abbey received a letter from the Reverend statt Mother House which in troubled 1931 sent Mother George Guenther who had announced one day in a Leonarda Fritz, O .S.B., with forty nuns to St. Vincent's Pittsburgh mission church that the new edifice to be 'St. J oseph's Convent, St. Marys, Elk Co., Pa.-18s2. St. built would be named after the first person who gave Benedict's Convent, Erie, Pa.- 18s6. St. Gertrude's Academy a substantial donation. R eceiving a thousand doll ars Ridgely, Md.-18s7. St. Benedict's Convent, St. J oseph: Minn.-18s7. St. Benedict's C onvent, Crookstone, Minn.- from a parishioner named Walburga, he had to turn 1858. St. Walburga's Academy, Covington, K y.-18s9. Sts. to the book of saints which led him to Eichstatt. Benedict and Scholastica's Convent, Chicago, IlI.- 1860. Mt. St. Scholastica's Academy, Atchison, Kan.- 1863. Convent Through the generosity of the parishioners, St. Wal­ of the Immaculate Conception, Ferdinand, Ind.-18.67. St. burga's in Pittsburgh rose enhanced with m agnificent Edith's Convent, Bristow, Va.-1868. St. Walburga's Con­ stained glass windows made in Munich, Germany. vent, Elizabeth, N. ].-1869. St. Mary's Convent, Pittsburgh, Pa.-1870. St. Scholas ti ca Convent, Ft. Smith, Ark.-1878. They tell of St. Walburga's life and death, and the St. Scholastica Convent, Shoal Creek, Ark.-1879. H oly Name, healing "oil" of her relics. For half a century St. Wal- St. Antonio, Fla.-1889. Villa Scholastica, D uluth, Minn.- 1892. Benedictine Convent, Lisle, 111.- 1895. Catholi c College, 'Mother Leonarda named the new co nvent St. Emma in Guthrie, Okla-1897. Sacred H eart Convent, Cullman, Ala.- honor of Emma Robertshaw, daughter of the Robertshaws 1902. Sacred H eart Convent, Garrison, N. D .-19l0. from whom she bought the property. St. Walburga in ecclesiastical art. Originals in Eichstatt, Bavaria. 2 The outer part of this area i covered with pewter engraved with tulips and vine branches, coats-of-arms and the names of the persons responsible for the recon­ struction of the burial place after its plunder on Feb­ ruary 7, 1634. Fortunately for hagiology, the Thirty Year War thieves, although destroying some important parchments, were more impressed with the glitter than the bones.' The nuns from St. Walburga Abbey take the "oil" from the cups and pour it into small glass vials which are given to those. who ask and believe. Very much Benedictine Convent of St. Walburga, Eichsftitt, Ba varia. depends on faith and the pure intentions of the would­ be users.
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