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SUMMARY:Blessed Adolph Kolping
DESCRIPTION:Blessed Adolph Kolping\nSaint of the Day for December 10\n(December 8\, 1813 – December 4\, 1865)\nClick to hear audio clip ► \nBlessed Adolph Kolping’s Story\nThe rise of the factory system in 19th-century Germany brought many single men into cities where they faced new challenges to their faith. Father Adolph Kolping began a ministry to them\, hoping that they would not be lost to the Catholic faith\, as was happening to workers elsewhere in industrialized Europe. \nBorn in the village of Kerpen\, Adolph became a shoemaker at an early age because of his family’s economic situation. Ordained in 1845\, he ministered to young workers in Cologne\, establishing a choir\, which by 1849 had grown into the Young Workmen’s Society. A branch of this began in St. Louis\, Missouri\, in 1856. Nine years later there were over 400 Gesellenvereine (workman’s societies) around the world. Today this group has over 450\,000 members in 54 countries across the globe. \nMore commonly called the Kolping Society\, it emphasizes the sanctification of family life and the dignity of labor. Father Kolping worked to improve conditions for workers and greatly assisted those in need. He and St. John Bosco in Turin had similar interests in working with young men in big cities. He told his followers\, “The needs of the times will teach you what to do.” Father Kolping once said\, “The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand\, and the most precious that he possesses\, even if he does not realize it\, is family life.” \nHe and Blessed John Duns Scotus are buried in Cologne’s Minoritenkirche\, originally served by the Conventual Franciscans. The Kolping Society’s international headquarters are across from this church. \nKolping members journeyed to Rome from Europe\, America\, Africa\, Asia and Oceania for Father Kolping’s beatification in 1991\, the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s revolutionary encyclical “Rerum Novarum” (“On the Social Order”). Father Kolping’s personal witness and apostolate helped prepare for that encyclical. \n\nReflection\nSome people thought that Father Kolping was wasting his time and talents on young working men in industrialized cities. In some countries\, the Catholic Church was seen by many workers as the ally of owners and the enemy of workers. Men like Adolph Kolping showed that was not true.
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