1. Joseph Freinademetz, was a Ladin Catholic priest and missionary in China.
11 Facts About Joseph Freinademetz
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Joseph Freinademetz was a member of the Society of the Divine Word.
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Joseph Freinademetz was born the fourth among the 13 children of Giovanmattia and Anna Maria Joseph Freinademetz in Oies, a section of the town of Badia, which was then in the County of Tyrol, a part of the Austrian Empire, now a part of Italy.
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Joseph Freinademetz studied theology in the diocesan seminary of Brixen and was ordained a priest on July 25,1875.
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Joseph Freinademetz was assigned to the community of San Martin de Tor, not far from his own home.
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Joseph Freinademetz contacted Arnold Janssen, founder of the Society of the Divine Word, a missionary congregation based in Steyl, Netherlands.
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Joseph Freinademetz was based in Sai Kung Peninsula until 1880 and set up a chapel on the island of Yim Tin Tsai in 1879.
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Joseph Freinademetz was very active in the education of Chinese laymen and priests.
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Joseph Freinademetz wrote a catechism in Chinese, which he considered a crucial part of their missionary effort.
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Joseph Freinademetz returned to Daijiazhuang, Rencheng District, Jining, South Shandong, where he died from typhus.
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Joseph Freinademetz was buried in Daijiazhuang, at the twelfth station on the Way of the Cross.