Joseph Projectus Machebeuf
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Joseph Projectus Machebeuf | |
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Denver, Colorado , United States |
Joseph Projectus Machebeuf (August 11, 1812 – July 10, 1889) was a French
Biography
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The eldest of five children, Machebeuf was born in
He served as a curate in Le Cendre until 1839, when he accepted the invitation of Bishop John Baptist Purcell to join the Diocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States.[1] He was first assigned as a curate in Tiffin and then as pastor of Lower Sandusky and Sandusky in 1841. He founded Holy Angels Catholic Church, Sandusky; St Ann's Catholic Church, Fremont; and St Philomena's Catholic Church, La Prairie, before leaving Ohio in 1851 to join his friend, Jean-Baptiste Lamy in New Mexico.
Following the elevation of Lamy to
On March 3, 1868, Machebeuf was appointed
He founded an academy and a school for boys in Denver (not to be confused with the college preparatory high school named in his honor, but founded after his death), a convent of the Sisters of Loretto, St. Joseph's Hospital, House of the Good Shepherd and the College of the Sacred Heart (now part of Regis University). The Catholic population of Colorado increased under his tenure from a few thousand to upwards of 50,000.[citation needed]
On August 7, 1887, the vicariate was elevated to the rank of a
Legacy
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His life was the basis for the character Joseph Vaillant in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop.
He is also the namesake of Bishop Machebeuf High School, located in Denver, Colorado. The school was founded in 1958.
References
- ^ a b c Howlett, William J. (1908). Life of the Right Reverend Joseph P. Machebeuf, D.D. Pueblo, Colorado: The Franklin Press Company.
- ^ a b c d "Bishop Joseph Projectus Machebeuf (Macheboeuf)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
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