History & local legend
Saint Vincent's cemetery near Latrobe is the setting for a campus story about Boniface Wimmer, the Benedictine founder of Saint Vincent College. Students have passed along a tradition that Wimmer returns to walk the grounds on the anniversary of his death.
In a 2018 account in The Saint Vincent Review, criminology student Jason Scagline described going to the cemetery with a friend on Founder's Day because of that tradition. He reported seeing the outline of a large figure, with an arm moving as though it were swinging incense.
Another Wimmer story, preserved in a 1996 collection of campus legends assembled by sociology professor Phyllis Riddle, places him in the basilica crypt. In that version, he returns to say Masses he did not finish during his lifetime.
