Tanzania & The Hunting Monks

[Nyati]

We are not bored by the pictures, Foxi, far from it, keep them coming

 

[Wheels]

Foxi,

I enjoy the new photos. Thanks for posting them.

Does the Monastery still have a presence in the Songea area?

 

[Jörg Krüger]

Danke fuer die Fotos und den Bericht Foxi.
Die wilde Zeit in Afrika.

 

[Wemshie]

Absolutely fascinating.

 

[Foxi]

Foxi,

I enjoy the new photos. Thanks for posting them.

Does the Monastery still have a presence in the Songea area?

Wheels.
Yes, they are active in Njombe, Uganda, Mozambique and Kenya.
Reforestation programs ,village water purification plants are being created among others.
Worldwide, more than 1,000 helpers work for the monastery.

 

[Wheels]

Wheels.
Yes, they are active in Njombe, Uganda, Mozambique and Kenya.
Reforestation programs ,village water purification plants are being created among others.
Worldwide, more than 1,000 helpers work for the monastery.

Sounds like they have had a long term serving presence.

 

[Foxi]

the Africans are all cheering.
Reason: the monks do not use Hornady bullets

 

[rinehart0050]

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the Africans are all cheering.
Reason: the monks do not use Hornady bullets

 

[Frederik]

Love the old photos and history

 

[PARA45]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing Foxi.

 

[thi9elsp]

Just came across this. Thanks for the pictures and stories and getting them documented here.

 

[Woodcarver]

Very interesting! Really like these old pieces of history.

 

[Brian]

Fascinating, I greatly appreciate it. I am going to have a good time researching it further if possible.
Can you suggest any reading on the subject?

Thank you again for the wonderful posts/info. Brian Gallup

 

[Bullhunter]

I was again in the musseum (first time in the 1990thys...) and in the archive of the monks.
Great artefacts, great storys, pp.
(Best wishes to them).

I will post some material in the next days here...

 

[Foxi]

too bad you didn't say you were visiting the museum.
I only live half an (car-)hour away from the museum
I would have liked to meet you as an AH member.
Maybe next time it will work out.
Looking forward to your photos.
Foxi

 

[Bullhunter]

Please:

a.)
Foxi, I write you an PM.

b.)
In the next time, I will write an bigger article in the exclusivst european hunting magazine, about the monks and theier help for africa, nearly 100 years before. (They are there in the modern times also, but without hunting. )

c.)
The monks had looked in theier archives.
And found four old guns.
(I dont think they had used them, I think these are gifts frome... african soldiers? arabs? (I dont know exactly, the monks didnt know it also) but I want to ask you gentleman).
Please look here (in the extra thread):

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• Bullhunter

d.)
I hade made nearly 1000 pictures and scans (better quality).
I will post a few in the next time here.

 

[Bullhunter]

The riding-animals ("donkey") of the monks, together with the africa-wildlife...

 

[Lumaberpat]

do you know of any good books on the topics of monks hunting in Africa?

Also as part of Benedictine spirituality they allow pilgrims to stay with them, what a pilgrimage that would’ve been to stay with these guys whose work seems to be lion hunting to keep the local population safe!

 

[Bullhunter]

They had many "fights with man-eating lions".
(This problem was bigger as I had expect.)
I see in the archive of the monks also the "bad injured (mostly native) people", witch are attact (or eaten alive) by the lions.
Here is one more man-eating lion.

 

[Bullhunter]

do you know of any good books on the topics of monks hunting in Africa?
Yes, see here please:
https://eos-verlag.de/en_GB/the-missionary-benedictines-of-st-ottilien/