 After a course in philosophy and theology at the Jesuit University of Dillingen he was ordained a priest on April 23, 1624.In the same year he was sent, as master of novices, to restore the primitive fervour and raise the standard of studies in the monastery of St. Trudpert in the Black Forest.In 1627 he became secretary to Abbott Franz Dietrich and to the Swabian Benedictine congregation.