The Missionaries of the Precious Blood is a Catholic community of priests and brothers. The society was founded by Saint Gaspar del Bufalo in 1815.
Statue of Gaspare del Bufalo - Founder of the Congregation
Collegio Preziosissimo Sangue, Rome
St. Augustine's Catholic Church (Minster, Ohio), a parish staffed by the C.PP.S.
Private chapel
Francis de Sales Brunner
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Francis de Sales Brunner C.PP.S., in his native German Franz Sales Brunner, was a Catholic missionary priest from Switzerland. Invited to the United States by Bishop John Baptist Purcell of Cincinnati
Missionaries of the Precious Blood
…the Catholic Church, closed the houses in Alsace and in several German-speaking states. In 1844 the society was introduced into North America by Rev. Francis de Sales Brunner, at the request of John Baptist Purcell the Bishop of Cincinnati. They came to Ohio to serve the German-speaking Catholics. Fr. Brunner's mother, Mother…
Portrait of Brunner by Swiss painter Jost Troxler (1827-1893).
Mariastein Abbey
Ruins of Löwenberg by Heinrich Kraneck, 1830
Maria Stein Convent