[Cavalcabo]

I fail to see how converting to Catholicism, a decision that cost him his title and his inheritance, and then choosing to become a priest in the frontier wilderness, is a political decision.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

The stories of the early priests there, like Father Baden, who, if I remember, became a priest at the same general time, and before him the German Jesuits, are not told well, but are worthy of honoring.

Father Farmer, who died in 1787, I believe, not only took care of large numbers of people in Pennsylvania, but ran a circuit through New Jersey where it was a capital offense to offer Mass, and up into the colony of New York.

We should thank God that he brings such hard working men into the priesthood, willing to give up safety, ease and more, to spread the word and minister to his people.

[eleni121]

He was baptized an Orthodox Christian. Conversion implies rejecting one's faith and accepting another. IS that what he did? If so, his decision implies that his own faith - the one he was baptized into - was somehow unacceptable. Strange I think. That is why I say he made a political decision. Church people do that all the time.

Look---I'm sure he was a nice man. But that does not indicate becoming a "saint".