Adolph Kolping - Essen, Germany
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N 51° 28.471 E 006° 57.023
32U E 357657 N 5704587
Father of All Apprentices
Waymark Code: WMNTWF
Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Date Posted: 05/03/2015
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"Adolph Kolping (December 8, 1813 in Kerpen — December 4, 1865 in Cologne) was a German Catholic priest, who has been beatified by the Catholic Church. He was a leader in providing social support for young workers in the cities of industrial Germany, and worldwide.
Kolping grew up as the son of a shepherd. At the age of 18 he went to Cologne as a shoemaker’s assistant. He was shocked by the living conditions of most people living there, which influenced his decision to become a priest. At age 23 he attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium and afterwards studied theology in Munich, Bonn and Cologne.
On April 13, 1845 he was ordained a priest in Cologne's Minoritenkirche. First he worked in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal) as a chaplain and religion teacher.
In 1849 he returned to Cologne as vicar of the cathedral and established Cologne’s Association of Journeymen. He united the existing journeymen associations as the Rheinischer Gesellenbund ("Federation of Journeymen of the Rhine Region") in 1850. This fusion was the origin of today’s international Kolpingwerk. Until his death he labored to spread the federation of journeymen associations. By the year of his death, 1865, there were more than four hundred journeymen associations worldwide.
In 1854, Kolping founded the weekly newspaper Rheinische Volksblätter ("Rhine Region People’s Paper"), which quickly became one of the most successful press organs of his time.
In 1862, he became the rector of Saint Maria Empfängnis Church.
In 1847 he became the second president of the Catholic Association of Journeymen (founded the preceding year by Johann Gregor Breuer), which gave young journeymen religious and social support.
On December 4, 1865 Kolping died. He is buried in the Minoritenkirche in Cologne."
Source: Wikipedia
The text on the plaque:
"Adolph Kolping
1813 - 1865
Schuhmacher, Priester, Sozialreformer,
Schriftsteller und "Gesellenvater"
Geboren in Kerpen bei Köln
Lehre als Schuhmacher
Zehn Jahre wandernder Handwerksgeselle
Theologiestudium in München und Bonn
Priesterweihe 1845, danach Kaplan in Elberfeld
Dort beginnt seine Arbeit gegen das Elend der
Arbeiter in der Industrialisierung.
Als Priester in Köln gründet Kolping 1849 den
ersten Katholischen Gesellenverein.
Seligsprechung am 27. Okt. 1991
Heute setzt sich sein Lebenswerk in mehr als 50
Ländern in allen Erdteilen fort."
Kolpingfamilie Essen-Borbeck
gegründet 1860 - im Heiligen Jahr 2000
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Location: Dionysiuskirchplatz (Churchyard of St. Dionysius)
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