Capuchins in America / by Otto Jeron. . V 0 dT>aDu^-^fWuJ^. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDER IN THE UNITED STATES. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDERIN THE UNITED STATES. By the Most Rev. Sebastian G. Messmeb, Translated by the Misses Herbermann. John Anthony Frey was born of Christian parents onJune 12, 1831, at Herdern, a village near Frauenfeld, a townin the fertile canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. Reared amongits vigorous people, who were divided into many sects, hereceived a rigorous Catholic training. His great talents ledhis parents to give him a higher education. The
Capuchins in America / by Otto Jeron. . V 0 dT>aDu^-^fWuJ^. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDER IN THE UNITED STATES. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDERIN THE UNITED STATES. By the Most Rev. Sebastian G. Messmeb, Translated by the Misses Herbermann. John Anthony Frey was born of Christian parents onJune 12, 1831, at Herdern, a village near Frauenfeld, a townin the fertile canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. Reared amongits vigorous people, who were divided into many sects, hereceived a rigorous Catholic training. His great talents ledhis parents to give him a higher education. They sent him tothe Gymnasium at Fischingen and Einsiedeln, in order thathe might study the classics. After completing his philosophicalstudies at Einsiedeln and Freiburg, he went to the Universityof Freiburg, in the grand duchy of Baden. Here it was thatthe thought of becoming a priest first suggested itself to him,and afterwards took deep root. Endowed with splendid in-tellectual gifts, he conceived the ardent desire of preaching theGospel and planting the ki
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