biography
pronunciation:
[neringks]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1761–1824)
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| biography:
| Religious leader, born in Belgium. Ordained in 1785 and forced underground after the French Revolution, he emigrated to the USA (1804) and became a missionary in the wilderness frontier of Kentucky. Zealous and accused of excessive rigorism, he co-founded the Sisters of Loretto (1912), imposing on them a stringent rule of life. |
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