biography
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Wattson, Lewis Thomas
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known as Father Paul James Francis
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1940)
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| biography:
| Catholic religious leader, born in Millington, Maryland, USA. After a decade as an Episcopalian pastor, he co-founded, with Lurana Mary White, the Society of the Atonement, a Franciscan-type religious congregation, at Graymoor in Garrison, NY (1898). There he sheltered homeless men, started a religious magazine, the Lamp, and launched the Church Unity Octave to pray for Christian unification. The society became Catholic in 1909 and he became a Catholic priest. A tireless fundraiser, he authorized missions in SW USA and abroad, and co-founded the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (1924). |
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