After completing his humanistic studies in Ellwangen, Franz Mayer entered the Beuron monastery in 1909 and professed his first vows in 1911. After the novitiate, he studied philosophy and theology in Maria Laach and Beuron.https://www.pacelli-edition.de/kurzbiografie.html?idno=8252 During the First World War he did military service as a medical soldier.
