Born Martin Schmitz, the son of Mathias and Sophia Schmitz of Helena Township, Minnesota, Brother Pamphilus Schmitz, O.F.M., was a lay brother of the Saint Barbara Province of Franciscan Friars in California. He entered Order of Friars Minor with the Sacred Heart Province, and first served in Nebraska at St. Joseph's Friary in Omaha, and at St. Bonaventure's Church in Columbus. He was a skilled carpenter and mechanic, and he oversaw the construction of a chapel at St. Francis Solanus College in Quincy, Illinois, where he served from 1910 to 1913. He was sent West due to ill health, and he served at St. John the Baptist Mission in Komatke, Arizona, and at St. Boniface parish in San Francisco, California. He was an inventor as well, and he held several U.S. patents for his designs, including a bed structure for the care of the sick and infirmed, which he planned in 1934. Brother Pamphilus spent his later at the Mission Santa Barbara, where he died at age 83.
Born Martin Schmitz, the son of Mathias and Sophia Schmitz of Helena Township, Minnesota, Brother Pamphilus Schmitz, O.F.M., was a lay brother of the Saint Barbara Province of Franciscan Friars in California. He entered Order of Friars Minor with the Sacred Heart Province, and first served in Nebraska at St. Joseph's Friary in Omaha, and at St. Bonaventure's Church in Columbus. He was a skilled carpenter and mechanic, and he oversaw the construction of a chapel at St. Francis Solanus College in Quincy, Illinois, where he served from 1910 to 1913. He was sent West due to ill health, and he served at St. John the Baptist Mission in Komatke, Arizona, and at St. Boniface parish in San Francisco, California. He was an inventor as well, and he held several U.S. patents for his designs, including a bed structure for the care of the sick and infirmed, which he planned in 1934. Brother Pamphilus spent his later at the Mission Santa Barbara, where he died at age 83.
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