In fact, he repaired books for libraries throughout the region. Returning to Saint John’s in 1991, Brother Andrew assumed the position of book preservation and repair specialist at the Saint John’s Alcuin Library and the Clemens Library at the College of Saint Benedict from 1992–2014. His next assignment took him back to Japan, this time to Saint Anselm’s Priory in Tokyo where he labored at a variety of community tasks. He then cared for ill and elderly confreres as a registered nurse from 1975–1980 and helped establish Saint Raphael Hall, the abbey’s health care and retirement center. He then returned to Saint John’s and was appointed laboratory assistant at the Saint John’s University Observatory from 1970–1975, during which time he studied nursing at the Saint Cloud School of Nursing in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, earning an R.N. He described this work as a labor of love in an engaging 2014 monastic chapter visual presentation entitled “Sursum Corda: Bronislaw Bak’s Window for Saint John’s Abbey Church.”īrother Andrew’s next assignment was in the business office of Saint Augustine’s Priory, Nassau, Bahamas, where he remained for one year. Richard Haeg in assembling and installing the huge stained-glass window Bak had designed to fill the entire north wall of the Abbey Church, which was then under construction. From 1959 to 1962 he assisted artist Bronislaw Bak and Mr.
On November 13, 1958, Brother Andrew (with his new monastic name) professed vows as a Benedictine monk and in 1961 became the first brother to profess perpetual vows in the new Saint John’s Abbey Church.īrother Andrew’s earliest assignment was in the Saint John’s Abbey Woodworking Shop from 1957–1959. Upon his return to civilian life, Leo’s continued interest in the Catholic faith led him to enter Saint John’s Abbey as a novice in 1957. His naval career took him to Japan during the Korean War, and while he was stationed there, he became a Catholic and was confirmed by the bishop of Kyoto in 1955. Navy Hospital Corps School in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1952. During his four-year term of service, he was trained and subsequently worked as a hospital corpsman. After graduating from Milaca High School in 1951, he enlisted in the U.S. Leo’s elementary education was in a rural, one-room school. His father was a farmer and his mother a homemaker. In addition to his sister Doris, Andrew also had four stepbrothers. Mass of Christian Burial: October 12 at 3:30 p.m.Īndrew (Leo) Goltz was the younger of two children born to John Ernest Goltz and Venus (Ritter) Goltz in Milaca, Minnesota, on April 20, 1933.