Charles Schilling, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian priest
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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Charles Schilling
- Venerable Charles-Joseph-Marie Schilling, CRSP (9 June 1835 - 2 January 1907) was born in Christiania, Norway.
- He was an atheist (nominally Lutheran) convert to Roman Catholicism, which he first came into contact with when he was nineteen years old and studying art in Düsseldorf.
- He was received into the Catholic Church on 11 November 1854.
- Gradually, as he spent more and more of his time in prayer and charity work, he gave up his painting.
- He was ordained a priest at Bourges, France, on 18 December 1875.Schilling became a spiritual director in the Barnabite Order (Clerics Regular of St Paul).
- He worked mainly in France, Italy and Belgium.
- His last years were spent in Mouscron, Belgium, where his evident holiness led people to call him "the tall saint" (because of his height) or "the saint of Mouscron".
- Shortly after his death people began to flock to his grave, and on 24 March 1936 his body was moved to the Barnabite Church, where it was placed in a side chapel.
- His grave is still frequently visited by pilgrims. Known also as Karl Schilling, he is the only post-Reformation Norwegian cleric to be officially considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church.
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