SEELOS IN FÜSSEN

Former Redemptorist Church & Monastery in the time of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos which served as the Novitiate for the order in Germany.

The Houses of St Mary  Magdalen and St Alphonsus were both founded April 14th 1841 after the Bishop of Passau entrusted the Order with the care of the venerated sanctuary and place of Pilgrimage. In 1853 the house of St Mary Magdalen became the home of the Superior General of the Order in Germany. It was from here that he was sent on his way to the USA to serve as a Redemptorist Missionary . Francis Xavier Seelos  left the Augsburg Diocesan Seminary of  Dillingen on the 9th December 1842. He arrived in Altötting around the last week of January/1st week of February 1843. He was delighted to be there as it houses the National Shrine of Our Blessed Mother and is called "the Catholic heart of Bavaria".

The Redemptorists were forced to close both houses in 1873 due to the Kulturkampf.

The Chapel of Grace has been undergoing renovations so the statue of Our Blessed Lady is until October 2022 located to the side of the main Altar in the Parish Church of St Philip & James

St Conrad was a Capuchin brother who served over 41 years as porter at the monastery in Altötting. He was the 11th child of 12 born to his parents, Bartholomew & Gertrude Birndofer in Parzham, Bavaria on 22 December 1818. He loved solitary prayer and joined the Capuchins and was professed in 1852. He spent hours in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and was also a great help to the poor who lived in the area handing out food and also encouraging them to also worry about their souls. He died  April 21, 1894.

He was beatified 15th June 1930 and canonized 20th May 1934 by Pope Pius XI