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Über Richard J. Schuler (Quelle: Nachruf der Church of Saint Agnes) und die University of St. Thomas (Quelle: wikipedia):
Msgr. Richard J. Schuler
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 30, 1920, Richard Joseph Schuler was the third child born to Otto Schuler, a German émigré from Lech Valley in Tirol, Austria, and Wilhelmine (“Minnie”) Hauk, a descendant of a family who had emigrated to the United States from the area of Baden-Baden, Germany. Despite their ancestry, the family attended an Irish parish, Ascension Church in Minneapolis, where the young Richard Schuler went to school until he graduated.
Combined with the rich piety bestowed on him by his parents, at Ascension Schuler received instruction in the Catholic faith and it was at school where he also began his music education. He took lessons in piano and flute and played in the orchestra at the parish. Music also played a role in his early life continuing his studies at De La Salle High School and also enrolling at McPhail Center of Music in the Twin Cities.
In 1938, Schuler entered the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, and soon after St. Paul Seminary. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis seven years later, teaching music and faithfully serving as organist at Nazareth Hall under the direction of Father Francis A. Missa—a priest imported from Europe to teach music by Archbishop Ireland. While training students in chant Father Schuler also pursued a degree in music theory at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
By 1955, then-Father Schuler began the first of his fourteen years teaching at the College of St. Thomas while earning his doctorate at the University of Minnesota, and shortly afterward he founded the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale—a choir composed of Fr. Missia’s choir and other players eager to perform sacred music.
From 1969 to 1979, Schuler served as vice president of the papal church music society (CIMS), editor of Sacred Music, the journal of the Church Music Association of America, and contributing editor for the American church music journals Caecilia and Catholic Choirmaster.
In 1969, Archbishop Leo Binz appointed Monsignor Schuler pastor of Saint Agnes in St. Paul, where he served for over thirty years. Saint Agnes offered Monsignor Schuler the opportunity to implement the conciliar decrees on a parish level according to the mind of the Church, and in light of principles he followed throughout his life. Under his direction, the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale performed the masses of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and other great composers.
Msgr. Schuler was also a founding member of the Latin Liturgy Association (LLA) which embraced, supported and retained the continuing use of Latin in the Roman Catholic liturgy in Novus Ordo and Tridentine formats. He was also a supporter and contributing columnist to The Wanderer, a Catholic publication founded a century earlier in St. Paul.
Msgr. Schuler also had the national distinction of fostering dozens of vocations to the Catholic Priesthood and Religious Life in diocesan and religious ranks when the popular Catholic culture in America greatly discouraged the practice. For a number of years, his Saint Agnes parish provided the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis with the largest number of any parish in the region.
Monsignor Richard J. Schuler passed away on Friday, April 20, 2007. Over the years, Monsignor Schuler preserved the traditional dignity and sacrality of the Roman Rite, inspiring a model expansive liturgical music program as a renowned master of Sacred Music. Msgr. Schuler did more perhaps than any other priest in this country to preserve the sacred musical heritage of the Catholic Church after Vatican II.
Die University of St. Thomas (UST) ist eine katholische Privatuniversität mit Sitz in Saint Paul im US-amerikanischen Bundesstaat Minnesota. Sie wurde 1885 als katholisches Theologisches Seminar gegründet. Die Universität wurde nach dem katholischen Philosophen Thomas von Aquin benannt. Zurzeit sind etwa 10.000 Studenten dort eingeschrieben. Der ursprüngliche Campus I der Universität befindet sich in St. Paul direkt am Mississippi, wohingegen der neuere Campus II sich in der Innenstadt von Minneapolis befindet. Seit 2013 führt die Präsidentin Julie Sullivan – und mit ihr zum ersten Mal eine Frau – die Geschäfte der Universität.
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University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
The University of St. Thomas (also known as UST or simply St. Thomas) is a private Catholic research university with campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 1885 as a Catholic seminary, it is named after Thomas Aquinas, the medieval Catholic theologian and philosopher who is the patron saint of students. As of fall 2021, St. Thomas enrolled 9,347 students, making it Minnesota's largest private, nonprofit university.
History: Founded in 1885 by John Ireland, archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, St. Thomas began as an all-male, Catholic seminary.[10] In 1894, the liberal arts program became an independent college through a gift from local railroad tycoon James J. Hill, who provided funds to establish the Saint Paul Seminary apart from the college.[10] In 1903, the College of St. Thomas established a military program on campus, and it was officially termed a military school by the U.S. War Department in 1906. Initially, the school gave out two-year diplomas in commercial and classical programs before awarding its first academic degrees in 1915. In 1922, military training became optional.
From the late 1920s through the mid-1930s, the Holy Cross Fathers, who run the University of Notre Dame, controlled the college's administration. The diocese called those priests in to help with the school's financial problems; those priests were known as a crisis intervention team of sorts for parochial schools of that time. During World War II, St. Thomas served as a training base for naval officers, which kept the school open when men who would have attended college were fighting in the war. After the war, in 1948, the college established "Tom Town" on the eastern end of the lower quadrant, which is currently the site to the O'Shaughnessey-Frey Library and O'Shaughnessey Education Center. Tom Town, made of 20 double-dwelling huts, consisted of white, barracks-like housing units for faculty, students, and their families. The units helped to meet housing demand after World War II.
In the latter half of the 20th century, St. Thomas started two of its most notable graduate programs, education in 1950 and business administration in 1974. The school became co-educational in 1977, and although women were not allowed to enroll until then, female students from St. Catherine University (then the College of St. Catherine) often took classes at St. Thomas. Women were also present as instructors and administrators on campus, but the staff, faculty, and administration have seen a vast increase in female employment since the move to co-education. In 1990, the College of St. Thomas became the University of St. Thomas and the following year, the university opened the Minneapolis campus. In 2001, St. Thomas reinstated its School of Law at its Minneapolis campus; it had been shut down during the Great Depression. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was the speaker at the grand opening.