Triduum Day 1 - Life of John Neumann by Fr. Ivel Mendanha CSsR

TRIDUUM 2nd Jan - 5th Jan reflections by Fr. Ivel Mendanha, General Consultor, Rome.
Named after the fourteenth-century martyr Saint John Nepomuk, John Nepomucene Neumann was born on March 28, 1811, in Prachatitz, Bohemia, the third of six children in a well-to-do Roman Catholic family. At boarding school, Neumann was drawn to the natural sciences and determined to study medicine. But he was also accepted at the seminary at Budweis in 1831 and from that moment never gave another thought to any vocation except the priesthood.

In 1833 Neumann earned a spot in the provincial seminary in Prague and soon felt called to become a missionary in the U.S. He finished his studies in 1835, but because his bishop was not performing ordinations that year, Neumann decided not to wait, having heard that the bishop of Philadelphia wanted German-speaking priests to minister to the immigrants in his diocese. Neumann left home on February 8, 1836, but during his journey across Europe he learned that Philadelphia no longer needed him. Neumann took his savings and booked his passage to New York anyway.
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