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Manitowoc, Wisconsin
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Manitowoc /ˈmænᵻtəwɔːk/ is a city in and the county seat of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States. The city is located on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Manitowoc River, according to the 2010 census, Manitowoc had a population of 33,736, with over 50,000 residents in the surrounding communities. The citys sister city is Kamogawa, Japan, purported to mean dwelling of the great spirit, Manitowoc derived its name from either the Anishinaabe language word manidoowaak, meaning spirit-spawn, or manidoowaak, meaning spirit-wood. In 1838, an act of the Territorial Legislature separated Manitowoc County from Brown County, in 1820, Matthew Stanley and his wife were the first to settle in the area. In 1835, President Andrew Jackson authorized land sales for the region, early immigrant groups included Germans, Norwegians, British, Irish, and Canadians. The first school in Manitowoc was held in the Jones warehouse, the first religious organization in the county, St. James Episcopal Church, first met in 1841. Manitowoc was chartered as a village on March 6,1851, in addition, landing craft, tankers and submarines became the local contributions to U. S. efforts in World War II. On September 5,1962, a 20-pound piece of the seven-ton Sputnik 4 crashed on North 8th Street, Sputnik 4 was a USSR satellite, part of the Sputnik program and a test-flight of the Vostok spacecraft that would be used for the first human spaceflight. It was launched on May 15,1960, a bug in the guidance system had pointed the capsule in the wrong direction, so instead of dropping into the atmosphere the satellite moved into a higher orbit. It re-entered the atmosphere on or about September 5,1962, a cast was made from the original piece before the Soviets claimed it, and the cast was displayed at the Rahr West Art Museum. A customer in an art gallery jokingly suggested that the city should hold a festival to celebrate the crash. The city held the first Sputnikfest in 2008, which was organized by the head of both museums. Manitowoc is home to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, and is one endpoint of the route of the SS Badger. Since the late 1990s, several new shopping centers have opened in the city, mostly on the southwest side of the city along Interstate 43, the bulk of the redevelopment in the city has been undertaken by the public/private partnership the Manitowoc County Economic Development Corporation. President Obama visited Manitowoc on January 26,2011, the day after his first State of the Union speech and he spoke to workers at Orion Energy, a manufacturer of solar technology, and praised Manitowoc for reinventing itself after the departure of Mirro Aluminum Company in 2003. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 17.99 square miles. The city is located at 44°5′47″N 87°40′30″W, on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Manitowoc River, the nearest other cities are Green Bay,40 miles away, Sheboygan 28 miles away, Appleton 47 miles away, and Milwaukee 80 miles away. Together with Two Rivers and the towns, the Manitowoc micropolitan area was, according to the 2000 census
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin is a U. S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, the state is divided into 72 counties. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline, Wisconsin is known as Americas Dairyland because it is one of the nations leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology, and tourism are major contributors to the states economy. The word Wisconsin originates from the given to the Wisconsin River by one of the Algonquian-speaking Native American groups living in the region at the time of European contact. French explorer Jacques Marquette was the first European to reach the Wisconsin River, arriving in 1673, subsequent French writers changed the spelling from Meskousing to Ouisconsin, and over time this became the name for both the Wisconsin River and the surrounding lands. English speakers anglicized the spelling from Ouisconsin to Wisconsin when they began to arrive in numbers during the early 19th century. The legislature of Wisconsin Territory made the current spelling official in 1845, the Algonquin word for Wisconsin and its original meaning have both grown obscure. Interpretations vary, but most implicate the river and the red sandstone that lines its banks, other theories include claims that the name originated from one of a variety of Ojibwa words meaning red stone place, where the waters gather, or great rock. Wisconsin has been home to a variety of cultures over the past 12,000 years. The first people arrived around 10,000 BCE during the Wisconsin Glaciation and these early inhabitants, called Paleo-Indians, hunted now-extinct ice age animals such as the Boaz mastodon, a prehistoric mastodon skeleton unearthed along with spear points in southwest Wisconsin. After the ice age ended around 8000 BCE, people in the subsequent Archaic period lived by hunting, fishing, agricultural societies emerged gradually over the Woodland period between 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. Toward the end of period, Wisconsin was the heartland of the Effigy Mound culture. Later, between 1000 and 1500 CE, the Mississippian and Oneota cultures built substantial settlements including the village at Aztalan in southeast Wisconsin. The Oneota may be the ancestors of the modern Ioway and Ho-Chunk tribes who shared the Wisconsin region with the Menominee at the time of European contact, the first European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer Jean Nicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, pierre Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers visited Green Bay again in 1654–1666 and Chequamegon Bay in 1659–1660, where they traded for fur with local Native Americans. In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet became the first to record a journey on the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway all the way to the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien
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Pope John XXIII
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Pope Saint John XXIII reigned as Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers who lived in a village in Lombardy. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, including papal nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on 12 January 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal as the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca in addition to naming him as the Patriarch of Venice, Roncalli was elected pope on 28 October 1958 at age 76 after 11 ballots. His selection was unexpected, and Roncalli himself had come to Rome with a train ticket to Venice. Pope John XXIII surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council and his passionate views on equality were summed up in his famous statement, We were all made in Gods image, and thus, we are all Godly alike. Pope John XXIII did not live to see the Vatican Council to completion and he died of stomach cancer on 3 June 1963, four and a half years after his election and two months after the completion of his final and famed encyclical, Pacem in terris. In addition to being named Venerable on 20 December 1999, he was beatified on 3 September 2000 by Pope John Paul II alongside Pope Pius IX and three others. Following his beatification, his body was moved on 3 June 2001 from its place to the altar of Saint Jerome where it could be seen by the faithful. He was canonised alongside Pope Saint John Paul II on 27 April 2014, John XXIII today is affectionately known as the Good Pope and in Italian, il Papa buono. This is understandable, since the Council was his idea and it was he that had convened it, on Thursday,11 September 2014, Pope Francis added his optional memorial to the worldwide General Roman Calendar of saints feast days, in response to global requests. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born on 25 November 1881 in Sotto il Monte and he was the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Roncalli and his wife Marianna Giulia Mazzolla, and fourth in a family of 13. Roncallli was nonetheless a descendant of an Italian noble family, albeit from a secondary, in 1889, Roncalli received both his First Communion and Confirmation at the age of 8. On 1 March 1896, Luigi Isacchi, the director of his seminary. He professed his vows as a member of that order on 23 May 1897, in 1904, Roncalli completed his doctorate in theology and was ordained a priest in the Catholic Church of Santa Maria in Monte Santo in Piazza del Popolo in Rome on 10 August. Shortly after that, while still in Rome, Roncalli was taken to Saint Peters Basilica to meet Pope Pius X, after this, he would return to his town to celebrate mass for the Assumption. In 1905, Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, the new Bishop of Bergamo, Roncalli worked for Radini-Tedeschi until the bishops death on 22 August 1914, two days after the death of Pope Pius X. Radini-Tedeschis last words to Roncalli were Angelo, pray for peace. The death of Radini-Tedeschi had an effect on Roncalli
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National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
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The National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, also dedicated as the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, is a Marian shrine, located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. The chapel is in the community of Champion, Wisconsin, about 16 miles north east of Green Bay and it stands on the site of the reported Marian apparition to a Belgian-born woman, Adele Brise, in the year 1859. The apparition was approved on December 8,2010, by Bishop David Ricken. Bishop Ricken also approved the Chapel as a Diocesan Shrine, recognizing its long history as a place of pilgrimage, Adele Brise was born in Belgium in 1831. Together with her parents, she immigrated to Wisconsin in 1855, in early October 1859, Adele reported seeing a woman clothed in white and standing between two trees, a hemlock and a maple. Adele described the woman as surrounded by a light, clothed in dazzling white with a yellow sash around her waist. She was frightened by the vision and prayed until it disappeared, when she told her parents what she had seen, they suggested that a poor soul might be in need of prayers. The following Sunday, which was October 9,1859, she saw the apparition a second time while walking to Mass in the community of Bay Settlement and her sister and another woman were with her at the time but neither of them saw anything. She asked the parish priest for advice, and he told her if she saw the apparition again, she should ask it, In the Name of God. Returning from Mass that same day, she saw the apparition a third time, the lady replied, I am the Queen of Heaven, who prays for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same. Adele Brise was also given a mission to gather the children in this wild country, at the time of the apparition Adele was 28 years old, and she devoted the rest of her life to teaching children. At first she traveled by foot from house to house, some other women joined her in this work and they formed a community of sisters according to the rule of the Third Order Franciscans, although Adele Brise never took public vows as a nun. She died on July 5,1896, the original chapel was a small wooden structure built by Lambert Brise, the father of Adele Brise, at the site of the Marian apparition. Mrs. Isabella Doyen donated the 5 acres surrounding the spot, and this chapel bore the inscription Notre Dame de bon Secours, priez pour nous, giving the shrine its present name. The site became a place of pilgrimage and the chapel was soon too small to accommodate the pilgrims who were coming. A larger brick chapel was built in 1880, and dedicated by Bishop Francis Xavier Krautbauer, a school and a convent were also built on the site in the 1880s. Lumber companies and sawmills had been harvesting the woods of Wisconsin, leaving piles of sawdust and branches as they produced lumber, the night of October 8,1871, a firestorm began near Peshtigo, Wisconsin that spread through the woods and towns, consuming everything in its path. Unable to outrun the flames, nearly 2,000 people died in the inferno, some people assume that, driven by strong winds, the conflagration leaped across Green Bay of Lake Michigan and began burning huge sections of the Door Peninsula
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St. Norbert College
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St. Norbert College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in De Pere, Wisconsin. Founded in October 1898 by Abbot Bernard Pennings, a Norbertine priest and educator, in 1952, the college became coeducational. The school currently enrolls about 2,180 students, van Dyke, a seminarian, was the first and, at the time, the only student. St. Norbert is the first and only institution of learning in the world sponsored by the Premonstratensian order. Abbot Pennings later started a program at the college for lay students before retiring in 1955. St. Norberts second president, the Dennis Burke, expanded the college, robert Christin, who became president in 1968, implemented the current course system and the academic divisional structure. In 1973, Neil Webb, a faculty member and vice president. Webb established the first permanent endowment for the school, serving as the colleges president from 1983 to 2000, Thomas Manion led the expansion of facilities and the development of additional academic programs. Thomas Kunkel, former dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park became the seventh president of the college in 2008. St. Norbert College offers undergraduate programs in more than 40 areas of study, leading to a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Music, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree is also offered through a joint effort with the Bellin College of Nursing. The most popular majors are Business Administration, Teacher-Education. In addition to its offerings, St. Norbert College offers three masters-level graduate programs in business administration, theological studies and liberal studies. The Master of Theological Studies department hosts a program in Albuquerque. Program studies take place at the Norbertine Abbey of Santa Maria de la Vid in Albuquerque, students on that campus can earn the full MTS degree. In the fall of 2015, the college offering an MBA program through its new Donald J. Schneider School of Business & Economics. The Medical College of Wisconsins Green Bay campus, which serves the northeast Wisconsin region, is located in the new Gehl-Mulva Science Center at St. Norbert, St. Norbert College has a student-to-faculty ratio of 13.5,1 and an average class size of 20. Regardless of their major, students enrolled at St. Norbert College complete a 12-course Core Curriculum Program that emphasizes writing, the school places an emphasis on its honors program, student-faculty collaborative research, professional internships and study abroad. Since 1991, St. Norbert was ranked as one of the top five colleges in the Midwest by U. S. News & World Report
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Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
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Manitowoc County /ˈmænᵻtəwɔːk/ is a county in the U. S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 81,442, the county was created in 1836 prior to Wisconsins statehood and organized in 1848. Manitowoc County comprises the Manitowoc, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,494 square miles, of which 589 square miles is land and 905 square miles is water. Manitowoc County Airport serves the county and surrounding communities, the population density was 140 people per square mile. There were 34,651 housing units at a density of 59 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 95. 90% White,0. 30% Black or African American,0. 43% Native American,1. 98% Asian,0. 04% Pacific Islander,0. 60% from other races, and 0. 76% from two or more races. 1. 62% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,53. 7% were of German,7. 3% Polish,5. 3% Czech and 5. 0% American ancestry according to Census 2000. 95. 2% spoke English,1. 8% Spanish,1. 3% Hmong and 1. 1% German as their first language. 26. 80% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.04. In the county, the population was out with 25. 50% under the age of 18,7. 60% from 18 to 24,28. 20% from 25 to 44,23. 00% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 98.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.10 males, the county executive is Bob Ziegelbauer. He is serving his term in that position after being elected in April 2006. The county is served by a 25 member county board, the series describes an earlier wrongful conviction of Avery, for which he served 18 years, and his subsequent lawsuit against Manitowoc County. It then focuses on the procedures of the Calumet County Sheriffs Office and the Manitowoc County Sheriffs Department, national Register of Historic Places listings in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Falge, Louis. Vol.1, Vol.2 Langill, Ellen, Robin E. Butler, Rachel Young, Manitowoc County, A Beacon on the Lakeshore. Brant Print & Binding Co.1904, rapper, Joseph J. Story of a Century, 1848-1948, Manitowoc County During Wisconsins First Hundred Years. Manitowoc County website Manitowoc County map from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation
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Silver Lake College
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Silver Lake College is a four-year, Catholic liberal arts college located in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, in the Diocese of Green Bay. Founded as an academy in 1885 by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, in 1972 the college became separately incorporated from the Franciscan order, and was renamed Silver Lake College of the Holy Family. Chris E. Domes is the colleges president and they founded Holy Family College in 1935. The college began admitting lay women in 1957 and became coeducational in 1969, the college was located in a wing of Holy Family Convent for 25 years. In the late 1950s, a campaign was launched to build a new college building on 36 acres adjacent to Holy Family Convent. The new Holy Family College building opened in 1960, in 1972 the college became separately incorporated from the Franciscan order, and was renamed Silver Lake College of the Holy Family. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Silver Lake College of the Holy Family expanded programs to nontraditional students, beginning in the mid 1980s, the college also offered degree-completion programs and professional development coursework. The St. Joseph Parish church and school, located on campus, added space for meetings and it was named the Generose Enrichment Center for the first college president, Mother M. Generose Cahill, and opened in 2003. Arnold was appointed the colleges first lay president and served from 2004 to 2013, clare Hall was renovated to offer on-campus student housing in 2009. Chris E. Domes became Silver Lake Colleges 10th president in 2013, enrollment is approximately 500 students from the United States and other countries. 32% male 68% female 14% minority Silver Lake College offers 21 undergraduate programs, accelerated evening coursework on the main campus in Manitowoc and at outreach sites in the state are offered to those with associate degrees who are pursuing a bachelors or graduate degree. Programs also include academic counseling and credit for prior learning, other available coursework includes teacher certification and certificate programs ranging from business to ministry to social work. In the 2016-17 academic year, all new full-time residential freshmen, the college joined the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in 2016. Silver Lake College offers mens basketball, womens basketball, womens volleyball, mens soccer, mens cross country, womens cross country, Silver Lake College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, the National Association of Schools of Music, and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. The colleges certifications include the Wisconsin Board of Nursing, Wisconsin Social Work Certificate, Silver Lake College website Silver Lake College athletics website
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay was established on March 3,1868, by Pope Pius IX. It is a diocese of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The earliest trace of the Catholic faith in the Green Bay area was in 1634, jesuits followed Jean Nicolet to the area and started to spread Gospel around the important rivers of the Green Bay area. This set a foundation for the creation of the Diocese of Green Bay, people of the area helped keep the faith until the framework of Christianity was finalized. Father Claude-Jean Allouez, a Jesuit missionary, celebrated Mass with the Native Americans near the present site of Oconto on December 3,1669, there he established St. Francis Xavier Mission. The mission was moved to Red Banks for a time in 1671, and then to De Pere, where it remained until 1687. The missionaries continued working with the Fox, Sauk, and Winnebago tribes under the protection of the French in newly constructed Fort Francis until Fort Francis was destroyed in 1728, catholicism then lay dormant in the area for almost a century. In 1825, a school was constructed of the lumber taken from St. Francis Xavier Chapel. This church was inspired by the borough of Fort Howard, which continued to expand with the settlement of the Catholic French Canadians and this group had lived in the area since the eighteenth century. The next church to go up in the area was called St. John the Evangelist and this church is the longest surviving place of worship in Wisconsin today. In the early 19th century, St. Johns church members spoke mostly French and it eventually became the mother church for all the churches in the Diocese of Green Bay. In the spring of 1868, Pope Pius IX created the Diocese of Green Bay, although the area had many French-Canadian Catholics, their numbers shrank as new settlements were set up in other places and immigrants of other nationalities came to the area. Throughout the mid- to late-19th century immigrants poured in, forming their own ethnic churches, in Green Bay, the Germans established St. Mary in 1854, the Dutch St. Willebrord in 1864, the Irish St. Patrick in 1865, the Belgians Sts. Peter and Paul in 1875, and the Polish St. Mary of the Angels in 1898, intermarriage with non-French speakers and the growth of the English language in the area gradually weakened the bonds of the ethnic churches. The Cathedral of Saint Francis Xavier in Green Bay is the church of the Diocese of Green Bay. The National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, in Champion, the National Shrine of Saint Joseph, in De Pere, at Saint Norbert Abbey, and Saint Joseph Oratory, in Green Bay, are located in the diocese. The following are lists of the Roman Catholic Bishops and Auxiliary Bishops of the Diocese of Green Bay, silver Lake College and St. Norbert College are both located within the Diocese. The Diocese also oversees 6 high school and 56 primary schools located throughout the sixteen county region, james Parish-Cooperstown St. Gregorys Church, St. Nicholas Parish, Freedom St Patrick Parish-Stephensville St Paul Parish-Combined Locks St
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David L. Ricken
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David Laurin Ricken is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the twelfth bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Bishop Ricken has served as bishop of the Diocese of Cheyenne, david Ricken was born to George William Bill Ricken and Bertha Ricken in Dodge City, Kansas. He has two siblings, a brother, Mark, and a sister, Carol, who is principal of St. Mary’s School in Cheyenne, for his primary education, Ricken attended Sacred Heart Cathedral Grade School in Dodge City. He later attended St. Francis High School Seminary in Victoria, Ricken was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Arthur Tafoya on September 12,1980, and then served as associate pastor of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Pueblo until 1985. From 1985 to 1987, he was both parish administrator of Holy Rosary Church and Vice-Chancellor of the diocese, in 1987, he was sent to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, from where he earned a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1989. Ricken, upon his return to the United States, was made diocesan Vocation Director and Vicar for Ministry Formation, in 1996, he began work as an official of the Congregation for the Clergy in the Roman Curia, a position that he served until 1999. On December 14,1999, Ricken was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Cheyenne by Pope John Paul II. He received his consecration on January 6,2000 from John Paul II, with Archbishops Giovanni Re and Marcello Zago, OMI, serving as co-consecrators. Ricken later succeeded Joseph Hubert Hart as Bishop of Cheyenne on September 26,2001, Pope Benedict XVI named Ricken the twelfth Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, on July 9,2008. Bishop Ricken was installed on August 28,2008, the ruling concluded two years of investigation officially approving the authenticity of the Marian apparitions that took place in 1859. Ricken is a 2009 inductee in the Catholic Education Foundations Hall of Fame, while the Cheyenne bishop, he had co-founded the Wyoming Catholic College, found the Wyoming School of Catholic Thought, founded the John Paul II Catholic School in Gillette, WY. He oversaw the building of a new school for St. Marys Catholic School in Cheyenne, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay
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Frederick Katzer
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Born in Ebensee in Upper Austria, Katzer immigrated to Minnesota in 1864. He soon moved to Milwaukee where he studied at St. Francis Seminary and was ordained to the priesthood on December 21,1866 and he joined the seminary faculty and taught a variety of subjects, until transferring to Green Bay in 1875. Katzer was appointed Bishop of Green Bay on July 13,1886 after Bishop Francis Krautbauers death, Katzer was appointed the third archbishop of Milwaukee. His nomination was opposed by some Irish Catholics, who felt a policy of Germanization of the set in place by his predecessors should not be continued. This is reflected in the architecture of many of the early churches, including the historic Old St. Marys Church. During his tenure, Katzer was a supporter of Catholic schools. He successfully lobbied for the repeal of the Bennett Law in 1890, the Sisters of the Divine Savior also made their home in Milwaukee at the urging of Katzer, during a visit to Pope Leo XIII in 1895. Katzer died in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on July 23,1903 at the age of 59 and he is buried in a small cemetery on the grounds of St. Francis Seminary. Biography at the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Dictionary of Wisconsin History
