St. John Neumann

Although serving as a priest in America, St. John Neumann was a Bohemian first (just like our current Pope), and studied in the seminaries in Prague, but the Bishop there halted the ordination of priests because there were too many. Neumann wrote to the Catholic Bishops in New York and became a priest there in a church that had no steeple or floor! He was able to speak multiple languages which allowed him to hear confessions in the native tongue of the confessor.

Let us pray to St. John Neumann for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.