Dilligen

THE FORMER AUGSBURG DIOCESAN SEMINARY IN DILLIGEN WHERE SEELOS STUDIED FOR 3 MONTHS

Photos Former Seminary of Augsburg Diocese in the time of Blessed Seelos by Dr. Miriam Rosenthal-English

Seelos in Füssen is publishing photos of what was the Former Augsburg Diocesan Seminary in Dillingen. This is the first time we have ever managed to get there to take photos and our photographer is there until Wednesday 23rd October 2024, so we hope to show you the inside and outside of the building which is now the Academy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management in Bavaria.

Francis Xavier Seelos entered the Diocesan Seminary, which was then located in Dilligen on 19th September 1842 and started his studies for the priesthood. He wasn't to stay there long. He met some Redemptorists and became very interested in their way of life and mission. They had been founded to evangelize the most abandoned and down-trodden. He was so taken by the charism of the order that he joined it on November 22nd 1842. Francis Xavier Seelos left the Augsburg Diocesan Seminary of Dillingen on the 9th December 1842 and headed to the Redemptorist Headquarters at the time, which was located in Altötting.