Fr. Simon Saenderl, a Redemptorist, ministered at St. Aloysius for five weeks in the summer of 1835. He was born in Malgersdorf, Bavaria, on September 30, 1809 and came to America before his ordination in 1825. Fr. Saenderl left the Redemptorists to enter a Trappist monastery at Gethsemane, Kentucky. He died on February 22, 1879.