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Spalding, John Lancaster

bishop, author, poet, was born June 2, 1840, in Lebanon, Ky. He received his education in the Mt. St. Mary's college and the university of Louvain, Belgium. In 1863 he was ordained and attached to the cathedral in Louisville as assistant. In 1869 he organized a congregation of colored people and built for their use the church of St. Augustine, of which he was appointed pastor. chancellor of the diocese and secretary to the bishop. In 1873 he commenced missionary work in the parish of St. Michael's in New York city, and became noted as an eloquent preacher and lecturer.

When the diocese of Peoria was created in 1887 he was consecrated bishop, and his administration has been marked by energy and signal success. He is the author of Life of Archbishop Spalding; Essays and Reviews; Religious Mission of the Irish People; and Lectures and Discourses. He is also a poet of rare genius; and the author of America, and Other Poems; The Poet's Praise; Education and the Higher Life; Means and Ends of Education; Things of the Mind; and Songs, chiefly from the German.

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