Dates

• Existence: 1811 March 28 - 1860 January 5

Biographical note

John Neumann was born in 1811 in Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire, now in the Czech Republic). He moved to America in 1836, where he labored in the district of Niagara until 1840, when he became a Redemptorist. As superior, and even more fully with his consecration as Bishop of Philadelphia, he devoted himself to the ministry of the Word, the education of youth, the building of churches, the decorum of divine worship and, above all, to the care of orphans and the needy. He also founded the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. He died in 1860, was beatified in 1963, and canonized in 1977.

(paraphrased from The Book of Saints : A Dictionary of Persons Canonized or Beatified by the Catholic Church. 5th edition. New York: Crowell, 1966.)

Alternate names

John Nepomucene Neumann