1. Aloysius Philip Schwartz was an American Catholic priest who ran social service programs for thousands of orphans in South Korea, the Philippines and Mexico.
23 Facts About Aloysius Schwartz
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Aloysius Schwartz was born in Washington, DC on September 18,1930, to Louis Schwartz and Cedelia Bourassa, the third of seven children.
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Aloysius Schwartz's mother died of cancer when he was 16 years old.
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Aloysius Schwartz realized that Maryknoll was preparing him to become a teacher when he really wanted to be a missionary.
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Aloysius Schwartz arrived in Leuven, Belgium, in 1952 to serve with the order while studying theology at Louvain Catholic University.
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Aloysius Schwartz spent time with the rag pickers' in Paris.
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Aloysius Schwartz was ordained as a diocesan priest on June 29,1957, at St Martin de Tours Church in Washington by Auxiliary Bishop John McNamara.
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On December 8,1957, Aloysius Schwartz arrived in Busan, South Korea.
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Aloysius Schwartz put in long hours providing ministry and learning Korean in a cold setting with meager food.
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Two months after arriving in Busan, Aloysius Schwartz collapsed while celebrating mass.
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Aloysius Schwartz started direct mail campaigns through Korean Relief, Inc, a non-profit he co-founded.
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In December 1961, Aloysius Schwartz returned to South Korea, where he was assigned as pastor of St Joseph, a poor parish in Songdo.
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On May 10,1981, Aloysius Schwartz started the Brothers of Christ.
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In 1983, Aloysius Schwartz received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in Manilla, Philippines.
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Aloysius Schwartz met Cardinal Jaime Sin, then Archbishop of Manila, who invited him to bring his religious community to aid the poor in the archdiocese.
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In 1985, Aloysius Schwartz founded the Sisters of Mary at Santa Mesa, Manila, expanding his charity programs.
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In 1989, Aloysius Schwartz was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Aloysius Schwartz's illness made him immobile, and he continued his work in a wheelchair.
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Aloysius Schwartz died on March 16,1992, at the Manilla Girlstown and was buried at the Sliang Boys town in Cavite.
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The cause of beatification for Aloysius Schwartz opened at the Manila Cathedral on December 10,2003.
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On May 29,2004, at the Sisters of Mary Girlstown Complex in Cavite, Auxiliary Bishop Socrates B Villegas declared the beatification process of Schwartz to be closed.
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On October 6,2012, the Positio Super Vita Virtutibus et Fama Sanctitatis for Aloysius Schwartz was submitted to Cardinal Angelo Amato, the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome.
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The cardinals and bishops in the ordinary session of December 16,2014, chaired by Amato, affirmed that Aloysius Schwartz had exercised the theological, cardinal, and concomitant virtues to a heroic degree.