Records, 1827-1916.

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Records, 1827-1916.

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Correspondence of many Austrians who were active in the American mission field, including St. John Neumann, Bishop of Philadelphia; Frederic Baraga, Bishop of Marquette; Father Caspar Rehrl, founder of the Sisters of St. Agnes; Father Joseph Salzmann, founder of St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee; Father Francis X. Pierz, missionary, especially in Minnesota; Father John Stephen Raffeiner of New York. Other correspondents include Vincentius Eduard Milde, Archbishop of Vienna; Simon Bruté, Bishop of Vincennes; Edward Dominic Fenwick, Bishop of Cincinnati; Benedict Joseph Flaget, Bishop of Bardstown and Louisville; John Frederick Résé, Bishop of Detroit; and many other members of the American hierarchy. Letters were primarily concerned with conditions in the mission areas and requests for money.

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Raffeiner, John Stephen, 1784-1861.

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Salzmann, Joseph, 1819-1874

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Baraga, Frederic, 1797-1868

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Frederic Baraga was born on June 29, 1797 in a Slovene province of Dobrinic, Carniola, later known as Slovenia. After receiving his preparatory education in Ljubljana, where his talent for languages was marked, he studied law at the University of Vienna. Upon graduation in 1821 he broke his engagement to marry, renounced his inheritance, and entered Ljubljana's seminary. He was ordained September 21, 1823. In 1830 he emigrated to the United States, and devoted thirty- six years of his life to th...

Fenwick, Edward D. (Edward Dominic), 1768-1832

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Edward Dominic Fenwick was born on August 19, 1768 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. In 1784 he went to study at Holy Cross College in Barnheim, Belgium. He entered the Order of Preachers in 1788 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1793 at Ghent. Fenwick returned to America in 1804 to establish a Dominican province in America, which was founded near Springfield, Kentucky in 1805. From this base, he made several missionary journeys into Ohio. On January 13, 1822 Fenwick was consecrated the fir...

Flaget, Benedict Joseph, 1763-1850

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Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Bardstown. From the description of Benedict Joseph Flaget papers, 1806-1842. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 438895408 ...

Milde, Vincentius Eduard, 1777-1853.

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Résé, John Frederick, 1791-1871.

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Leopoldinen-stiftung im Kaisertume Österreich.

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Austrian mission society founded in 1828 by John Frederick Résé, a German missionary who worked in the Diocese of Cincinnati from 1824 until 1833, when he became the first Bishop of Detroit. It imitated the French Society for the Propagation of the Faith: members prayed for and contributed alms to the American missions. Locally collected funds went to the central office in Vienna and from there to American bishops and congregations of religious. The society published i...

Neumann, John, Saint, 1811-1860

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Pierz, Francis, 1785-1880

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Rehrl, Caspar.

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Bruté de Rémur, Simon William Gabriel, 1779-1839

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