Otto Scherer came from a well-to-do farming family in Ohio. As the only son, he was destined to inherit the two family farms and planned on getting married and raising a family of his own. The woman he wanted to marry was also the love interest of another man. After his rival threatened his life at the point of a gun, Otto decided to move on with his life.
Contact with a Capuchin preacher led the hardworking thirty three year old Otto to seek admission to religious life. He entered the Capuchin Novitiate in Detroit, receiving his name Wendelin. Following the novitiate, Wendelin was sent to Harlem, but after five months, owing to his farming background, was moved to Wauwatosa to tend the large garden there and the cow that supplied the friars with milk. When his own work was done, his observant eye and sense of order and charity, found him busy throughout the friary, whenever someone needed help or something needed to be done. Brother Wendelin also spent many hours in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, and enjoyed decorating the altar with flowers.
Wendelin had been in Yonkers for five years when Marathon opened, and successively was placed in charge of the farm there. His quick thinking once saved the friary from a raging prairie fire. His last eleven years were spent as a cook at St. Elizabeth's in Milwaukee. Wendelin was well liked wherever he was stationed. Everyone felt his kindly, fraternal spirit – the younger Friars his fatherly heart – the Superiors found in him someone upon whom they could always rely. Br. Wendelin passed away on January 12, 1941, aged 66, in Milwaukee, after 33 years of religious life.
Contact with a Capuchin preacher led the hardworking thirty three year old Otto to seek admission to religious life. He entered the Capuchin Novitiate in Detroit, receiving his name Wendelin. Following the novitiate, Wendelin was sent to Harlem, but after five months, owing to his farming background, was moved to Wauwatosa to tend the large garden there and the cow that supplied the friars with milk. When his own work was done, his observant eye and sense of order and charity, found him busy throughout the friary, whenever someone needed help or something needed to be done. Brother Wendelin also spent many hours in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, and enjoyed decorating the altar with flowers.
Wendelin had been in Yonkers for five years when Marathon opened, and successively was placed in charge of the farm there. His quick thinking once saved the friary from a raging prairie fire. His last eleven years were spent as a cook at St. Elizabeth's in Milwaukee. Wendelin was well liked wherever he was stationed. Everyone felt his kindly, fraternal spirit – the younger Friars his fatherly heart – the Superiors found in him someone upon whom they could always rely. Br. Wendelin passed away on January 12, 1941, aged 66, in Milwaukee, after 33 years of religious life.
Otto Scherer came from a well-to-do farming family in Ohio. As the only son, he was destined to inherit the two family farms and planned on getting married and raising a family of his own. The woman he wanted to marry was also the love interest of another man. After his rival threatened his life at the point of a gun, Otto decided to move on with his life.
Contact with a Capuchin preacher led the hardworking thirty three year old Otto to seek admission to religious life. He entered the Capuchin Novitiate in Detroit, receiving his name Wendelin. Following the novitiate, Wendelin was sent to Harlem, but after five months, owing to his farming background, was moved to Wauwatosa to tend the large garden there and the cow that supplied the friars with milk. When his own work was done, his observant eye and sense of order and charity, found him busy throughout the friary, whenever someone needed help or something needed to be done. Brother Wendelin also spent many hours in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, and enjoyed decorating the altar with flowers.
Wendelin had been in Yonkers for five years when Marathon opened, and successively was placed in charge of the farm there. His quick thinking once saved the friary from a raging prairie fire. His last eleven years were spent as a cook at St. Elizabeth's in Milwaukee. Wendelin was well liked wherever he was stationed. Everyone felt his kindly, fraternal spirit – the younger Friars his fatherly heart – the Superiors found in him someone upon whom they could always rely. Br. Wendelin passed away on January 12, 1941, aged 66, in Milwaukee, after 33 years of religious life.
Contact with a Capuchin preacher led the hardworking thirty three year old Otto to seek admission to religious life. He entered the Capuchin Novitiate in Detroit, receiving his name Wendelin. Following the novitiate, Wendelin was sent to Harlem, but after five months, owing to his farming background, was moved to Wauwatosa to tend the large garden there and the cow that supplied the friars with milk. When his own work was done, his observant eye and sense of order and charity, found him busy throughout the friary, whenever someone needed help or something needed to be done. Brother Wendelin also spent many hours in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, and enjoyed decorating the altar with flowers.
Wendelin had been in Yonkers for five years when Marathon opened, and successively was placed in charge of the farm there. His quick thinking once saved the friary from a raging prairie fire. His last eleven years were spent as a cook at St. Elizabeth's in Milwaukee. Wendelin was well liked wherever he was stationed. Everyone felt his kindly, fraternal spirit – the younger Friars his fatherly heart – the Superiors found in him someone upon whom they could always rely. Br. Wendelin passed away on January 12, 1941, aged 66, in Milwaukee, after 33 years of religious life.
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