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John Lancaster Spalding

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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is


— John Lancaster Spalding


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Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving.


— John Lancaster Spalding


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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.


— John Lancaster Spalding


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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.


— John Lancaster Spalding


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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.


— John Lancaster Spalding


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Early years
He was born on June 2 1840 in Lebanon Kentucky and ordained a priest at age 23 on December 19 1863 in the Diocese of Louisville. His uncle Martin John Spalding later became Bishop of Louisville then Archbishop of Baltimore but did not live to see John himself become bishop. As bishop Spalding was a proponent of education.

Spalding Hall at The Catholic University of America is also named for him. John Lancaster Spalding (June 2 1840 – August 25 1916) was an American author poet advocate for higher education the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.

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