LAUER, ALOYSIUS. - First Minister General of the Friars Minor after the union of their families (1897), b. at Katholisch-Willenroth in Hesse on 28 Aug. 1833, d. at Sigmaringen-Gorheim in Hohenzollern on 21 Aug. 1901. During the Kulturkampf, as superior of the convents of Thuringia, he was forced into exile in Holland, Belgium, France, and the United States.

His keen desire, while he still belonged to the Franciscan family of the Recollects, was the union of the various families of the Order, for which he labored tirelessly with energy and awareness. He desired such a union more by religious means than by diplomatic ones. He was among the founders of the Acta Ordinis Minorum (1881); the second volume of the Incitamenta seraphica (his spiritual theory) is owed to him; he prepared the "code of the union" (drafts of 1889 and 1895). On the commission of Leo XIII he carried out the regional fusion of the provinces. He was esteemed as a man of prayer and for his prudence.

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BIBL.: Analecta Franciscana, 6 (1907), pp. 165, 233; L. Dané, Raphaël Delarbre d'Aurilac, Vanves 1938, passim; W. Meyer, Seele des Ordenslebens, Warendorf 1949; D. v. Wely, A. L. en de Nederlandse Minderbroeders-provincie, in Voerl. Seraphica, 20 (1950), pp. 226, 275, 311, 361 ff.

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Lauer, Aloysius

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