Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German priest and reputed miracle-worker
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Place of Birth: Kupferzell, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
- Prince Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (17 August 1794 – 17 November 1849) was a German priest and reputed miracle-worker.Alexander was born at Kupferzell, near Waldenburg, and was a son of Charles Albert II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1742-1796) and his second wife, Baroness Judith Reviczky of Revisnye (from 1753 to 1836), the daughter of a Hungarian nobleman, entrusted his early education to the church and ex-Jesuit Rid.
- In 1804 he entered the Theresianum at Vienna, in 1808 the academy at Bern, in 1810 the archiepiscopal seminary at Vienna, and afterwards he studied at Tyrnau and Ellwangen.
- He was ordained priest in 1815, and in the following year he went to Rome.
- While in Rome, he entered the society of the Fathers of the Sacred Heart.
- Subsequently, in Munich and Bamberg, he was blamed for Jesuit and Obscurantist tendencies, but obtained considerable reputation as a preacher. Alexander's first so-called miraculous cure was effected, in conjunction with a peasant, Martin Michel, on Princess Mathilde von Schwarzenberg, who had been paralytic for some years.
- Immediately he acquired such fame as a performer of miraculous cures that crowds from several countries flocked to partake of the beneficial influence of his supposed supernatural gifts.
- Ultimately, on account of the interference of the authorities with his operations, he went to Vienna in 1821 and then to Hungary, where he became a canon of Grosswardein and in 1844 titular Bishop of Sardica.
- He died at Vöslau near Vienna. Alexander was the author of a number of ascetic and controversial writings, which were collected and published in one edition by S.
- Brunner in 1851.
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