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John Joseph Jessing Letter to Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans

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Title	John Joseph Jessing Letter to Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans
Subject	Religion in Ohio Immigration and Ethnic Heritage Education Catholic Church
Place	Pomeroy (Ohio) Meigs County (Ohio)
Description	John Joseph Jessing wrote this letter to Columbus Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans in 1877. Jessing founded an orphan's asylum in Pomeroy that he funded through publication of the Ohio Waisenfreund (Ohio Orphans' Friend), a German-language newspaper. In this letter he asks permission to bring his newspaper and the orphan's asylum to a larger city, explaining that he needs to be closer to the railroad in order to distribute his paper. He also discusses the industrial school he wants to start in connection with the orphan's asylum where boys could learn a trade to support themselves as adults. Rosecrans approved Jessing's plan and the newspaper and orphan's asylum were moved to Columbus later that year. The letter is 8 pages long and measures 7.75 by 9.75 inches (19.69 by 24.77 cm). Jessing (1836-1899) was born in Muenster, Germany. In 1867, Jessing came to the United States to study for the priesthood. He was ordained at St. Patrick Pro Cathedral in Columbus by Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans in 1870. Father Jessing's first assignment was at Sacred Heart Church in Pomeroy, Ohio. In 1888, Jessing started the Collegium Josephinum to train young men for the priesthood and to minister primarily to German speaking immigrants. It received pontifical status in 1892 and became known as Pontifical College Josephinum. It is the only pontifical seminary outside of Italy that is overseen by the Vatican through the Apostolic Nuncio in Washington, D.C. Jessing witnessed the first class being ordained June 1899, five months before he died.
Creator	Jessing, Rev. John Joseph
Date of Original	February 13, 1877
Collection	Monsignor John Joseph Jessing Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts)
Submitting Institution	Pontifical College Josephinum
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om1048_1025513_004
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Full Text	Pomeroy, O., Febr. 13. 77. Rt. Rev. & Dear Bishop, Your kind letter of yesterday is at hand and I think I should more express to you my ideas and plans. From the very beginning that you ordained me up to the present day all my doings have been directed so far as you commissioned me to promote the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Having before my eyes the sight that so many boys, Catholic boys, were lost for our holy Church for want of a Catholic education and there being no place in this diocese where boys could find a home I concluded to do my best I could to establish such a home. With the help of God I have succeeded and can give at least a small number of homeless boys a Catholic education. I have received no help from outside, there has been no collection, which amounts to anything, and even non of the Brothers has yet been out begging for this asylum. By my hard working day and night the institution has come into existence and I have supported it now nearly two years. What I hold in my possession on real estate and otherwise including the paper I can fairly estimate having $10,000 value,

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