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Very interesting historical anecdote!
1 posted on 01/05/2009 8:15:38 AM PST by Pyro7480
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Catholic ping!


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!)
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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 ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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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 ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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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 ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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