CRAMER, WILHELM. - Popular ascetical writer, b. at Gescke (Westphalia) on 25 Sept. 1845, ordained priest in 1869, parish priest at Hohenwepel and then at S. Vit (near Wiedenbrück) until 1910, d. at Gescke on 15 Oct. 1916.

He published various religious books and pamphlets, simple in style but profound in thought and feeling. From 1873 to 1883 he was editor of the Marian review Marienblüten and from 1898 to 1907 of the Sendbote des hl. Antonius.

Principal works: Feuer und Schwert (Dülmen 1870); Muttergottes Gebetbuch (ibid. 1873); Die deutschen Pilger an den französischen Gnadenstätten N. D. des Victoires, Issoudun, Lourdes und Paray-le-Monial (Berlin 1875); Die Erscheinungen und Heilungen in Marpingen (Würzburg 1876); Der hochheilige Rosenkranz (Münster 1879); Der grosse Tag ist das Gebetbuch für erste Communion (Dülmen 1879); Vor Gott. Vollständiges Gebetbuch (ibid. 1888); Auf der Eisenbahn (ibid. 1891).

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BIBL.: W. Heinsius, Allgem. Bücherlex., VIII, p. 337; X, p. 307; XVIII, p. 300; A. Groetcken, s. v. in LThK, III, col. 70.

Anselmo Musters

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