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Rev. Blase (Charles) Schumacher, O.S.B.
 
August 15, 1905 - August 5, 1989
 
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Father Blase (Charles) Schumacher was born in the town of Willy, Iowa on August 15, 1905, one of 15 children. Father Blase and his twin brother Leo became priests; six of the girls became nuns. After graduation form Columbia College, Dubuque, Iowa, he entered the novitiate of St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota in 1929. He made his first profession on September 9, 1930 at St. John's Abbey, and was ordained there on June 10, 1934. After ordination Father Blase was assigned to St. Gregory's Abbey to prefect, teacher, and head coach of major sports. After nine years he was assigned to a parish in Vernal, Utah, where he had several missions. He used an airplane to go to mission to mission. He was then assigned to St. Maur's Priory, South Union, Kentucky and to Nassau, Bahama Islands. In 1955 Father Blase transferred his vows to St. Gregory's Abbey. More pastoral assignments followed in Ada, Montebello, Anadarko, Harrah, Lenox, Iowa, Sterling, Grand Junction, Iowa, and others. In 1982 Father Blase returned to the Abbey where he lived in retirement. In 1984 he celebrated fifty years of priesthood. He broke his hip in a fall in May of 1989 and his health then declined steadily until his death at the Shawnee Care Center on August 5, 1989.
 

 
Dates
 
Born: Available but not Published
Hometown: Available but not Published
 
Professed: September 9, 1930
Ordained: June 10, 1934
Died: August 5, 1989
 
First Year Listed in Ordo at St. John's: 1950
Last Year Listed in Ordo at St. John's: 1956
 

 
Names
 
Possible names for Rev. Blase (Charles) Schumacher, O.S.B.:
 
Fr. Blasius Schumacher, Father Blasius Schumacher
Fr. Blase Schumacher, Father Blase Schumacher
Fr. Carolus Schumacher, Father Carolus Schumacher
Fr. Charles Schumacher, Father Charles Schumacher
 

 
 
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