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XX Capitulum Generale

In Divino Salvatore Radicati
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Bl. Francis Jordan SDS
OUR FOUNDER

It was Gurtweil, a small place in southwestern Baden, just a few kilometers from the district town of Waldshut, close to the Swiss border, that became the hometown of Father Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, founder of the Salvatorians. Father Jordan was born on June 16, 1848, second son to Lawrence and Notburga nee Peter. On the following day he was baptized at the local parish church with the name John Baptist.

Being brought up in a poor family, he was not able to realize his dream of becoming a priest, although as a teenager he had already become aware of his vocation at the moment of his First Communion. After finishing primary school he worked as a laborer and painter-decorator, traveling in what was then Germany.

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BEATUS FRANCISCUS JORDAN

Beatification: 15.05.2021
Liturgy, homilies, etc.

Great Salvatorians

Bl. Mary of the Apostles
Bl. Mary of the ApostlesFirst Superior of Salvatorian Sisters
Fr. Pancratius Pfeiffer
Fr. Pancratius PfeifferSuccessor to the Founder as General
Fr. Bonaventura Lüthen
Fr. Bonaventura LüthenFirst cooperator of our Founder
Fr. Otto Hopfenmüller
Fr. Otto HopfenmüllerFirst Salvatorian Missionary

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Bl. Francis Jordan

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Woe to me, O Lord, if I do not make you known to men [and women]!

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