Runaway abbot

Revd Father Dominik Nimmervoll (literally Never Full or Never Enough)

This man was the head of the Cistercian Order in Austria and Abbot of Wilhering. He decided he wanted a change at 50, not wanting to grow old in a monastery and became a parish priest.

His monastery






His new parish

They have a liturgy committee at this church which proclaims as its motto, "Church and Liturgy for the sake of humanity".

There is an old laybrother who can be found outside the door of the Church at Wilhering each day at sunset praying the Rosary. He did not run away and doubtless prays for the runaway abbot.

The lay brother has been on a handful of pilgrimages but he says his next pilgrimage will be when he ends his days in the monastery. He has an intense devotion to Padre Pio.