Br. Agatho Meyer (1859-1924)

Brother Agatho Meyer was born in Germany April 9, 1859, in Wessingen, Wuerttenberg, Germany, and died on his birthday in St. Margaret’s Hospital, Kansas City, Kan., of intestinal influenza in 1924.  He became a lay brother at St. Vincent Archabbey and made his first vows there in 1890 and final vows in 1885.  He was sent to the priory at St. Mary’s, Pa., but from there came to St. Benedict’s Abbey where he worked at the College Farm, was baker for the monastery and the college and a truck gardener supplying vegetables for the Abbey and the College.  He was said the have enjoyed good health for a man of his age.  He attributed his health to a “love of the outer air.”