Very interesting historical anecdote!
1 posted on
01/05/2009 8:15:38 AM PST by
Pyro7480
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2 posted on
01/05/2009 8:18:37 AM PST by
Pyro7480
(This Papist asks everyone to continue to pray the Rosary for our country!)
To: Pyro7480
St. John Neumann started a lot of things.
New churches, new schools, new communities of nuns and priests to work in the schools, Forty Hours Devotion, Lenten Devotions and much more.
Thanks for the post!
4 posted on
01/05/2009 4:11:23 PM PST by
Salvation
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To: Pyro7480
Also the first Redemptorist to be ordained stateside.
5 posted on
01/05/2009 4:12:59 PM PST by
Salvation
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To: Pyro7480
From another thread:
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His mastery of eight languages proved extremely helpful in his quest for souls. He was a pioneer promoter of the Parochial School System in America.
At 48 years of age, completely exhausted from all his apostolic endeavors, he collapsed in the street on January 5, 1860.
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He must have been quite the evangelizer!
6 posted on
01/05/2009 4:39:57 PM PST by
Salvation
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