 Buckfast was formally reinstated as an Abbey in 1902, and Boniface Natter - who died at sea in 1906, when the SS "Sirio" was shipwrecked - was blessed as the new abbot on 24 February 1903.His travelling companion Anscar Vonier became the next abbot and pledged to fulfill Natter's dying wish, namely to rebuild the abbey.The abbey church was consecrated on 25 August 1932, but the building was not finished for several years