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unusual facts about Isaac Hecker


Alessandro Barnabò

As Prefect, Barnabò was responsible for arranging a meeting between Pope Pius IX and Isaac Hecker.


Francis Asbury Baker

Father Baker worked closely with Father Isaac Hecker on his missions and so after Hecker’s expulsion from the Redemptorists and his subsequent permission to found the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, granted by Pope Pius IX, Baker joined fellow missionaries Isaac Hecker, Augustine Hewit, Clarence Walworth, and George Deshon in leaving the Redemptorists to found the new society.


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