Mathias Hunt was born in Germany in 1848. He immigrated to America as a teenager, entered the Benedictine monastery in Indiana soon after, and became a priest by 1872. Best known as Father Jerome, he moved to Dakota Territory in 1877 and began working as a missionary at the Standing Rock Reservation. Eventually, in 1883, he traveled to the Mission of St. Michael’s on the Fort Totten Reservation.
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However you choose to observe Michaelmas, the feast of St. Michael and All Angels Sept. 29, the Norbertine priests of St. Michael's Abbey will possibly be enjoying it more. Their new Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Silverado, California, completed in June 2021 along with a new abbey built 10 miles away from an area prone to landslides, has a special stained-glass window at the back of the nave.