St. John Nepomucene Neumann
was born on March 28, 1811, in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. His parents were Philip and Agnes. He had four sisters and a brother. After college, John entered the seminary. When the time came for his ordination, the bishop was sick and the date was never rescheduled as Bohemia had enough priests at the time. Since he had been reading about missionary activities in the United States, John decided to go to America and request to be ordained there.
Father John established himself in a small log parish house. He hardly ever lit a fire and often lived on only bread and water. He joined theorder and continued his missionary work until he was elected bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. As bishop,of a cathedral. He opened almost 100 schools, and the number of parochial school students grew from 500 to 9,000. He died suddenly on January 5, 1860.
He became the first American bishop to be beatified. He was canonized by Pope Paul VI on June 19, 1977. He is buried in St. Peter the Apostle Church in Philadelphia. For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
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