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Midland: Charles Bray took this picture of the statue of Saint Johann Neumann at the Martyrs Shrine. Saint John Neumann was born in what is now the Czech Republic. After studying in Prague, he came to New York at 25 and was ordained a priest. He did missionary work in New York until he was 29, when he joined the Redemptorists and became its first member to profess vows in the United States. He continued missionary work in Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio, where he became popular with the Germans. At 41, as bishop of Philadelphia, he organized the parochial school system into a diocesan one, increasing the number of pupils almost twenty fold within a short time. He was gifted with outstanding organizing ability; he drew into the city many teaching communities of sisters and the Christian Brothers.
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