November 22, 2011

Eugene John Weibel was ordained as a priest in the Benedictine order on August 15, 1876. A native of Switzerland, Weibel is best known for his almost thirty years of service in northeast Arkansas, during which he helped to establish churches, convents, schools, and St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro (Craighead County). He was instrumental in so many church activities that he has been called the Catholic “Apostle to northeastern Arkansas.” By 1922, he had returned to Europe, where he died in 1934.