TITLE:  Paul Behr

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, July 20, 2001

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, July 2001

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 BEHR, Brother Paul
On Wednesday evening before Vespers, July 18, 2001, Bro. Paul Behr, 
monk of the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Mepkin, died peacefully in 
the Lord. Born April 6, 1915 of the late Thomas Behr, Sr., and Luisa 
Bertha Wiesendanger Behr of Andermatt, Switzerland, he was one of nine 
siblings. He is survived by two sisters and a brother, Mary Hable, Ann 
Kalin and Emil Behr of the St. Paul, Minnesota area to which the family
moved from Switzerland in 1921. Bro. Paul graduated from Maryknoll 
College in Clarks Summitt, Pennsylvania in 1937, after which he 
entered the Maryknoll novitiate at Bedford, MA. For reasons of health, 
he returned home to work on the family farm. On September 22, 1941, he 
entered the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky. He 
made solemn profession at Gethsemani on April 13, 1947. Two years later
, he was part of the group of monks sent to Moncks Corner, SC., to 
establish the new monastery of Our Lady of the Immaculate Heart, now 
known as Mepkin Abbey. While at Mepkin, he fulfilled the duties of cook
, cobbler, assistant to the infirmarian and other tasks he was called 
on to do. At his passing, Bro. Paul was the senior monk in the 
community and would have been in the monastic life for 60 years this 
September.  The Funeral Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 
Mepkin on Saturday at 3:00 P.M., with the interment in the monastic 
cemetery following immediately. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be 
made to Mepkin Abbey Building Fund, Mepkin Abbey, 1098 Mepkin Abbey 
Road, Moncks Corner, SC 29461-4796. Arrangements by RUSSELL FUNERAL 
CHAPEL, Moncks Corner. (The Post and Courier July 20, 2001)
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