40                HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH


CHAPTER II.-VOCATIONS.


    The parish has furnished a large number of Vocations to various Sisterhoods during the last fifty years.  Of Vocations to the Priesthood there is some dearth.
    In some ways the Rev. Louis Julius Walter might be claimed by St. Agatha.  He taught school within the parish (New Prussia) for the two winter seasons of 1850 and 1851, returned to Baden, studied for the priesthood, was ordained in 1861.  After serving as assistant and administrator in various parishes, he became pastor of Hollerbach, Baden, for 32 years, then retired and died at Freiburg, Baden, Nov. 12, 1913.
    Rev.  Nicolaus Sorg, the wagon-maker and school teacher, went from St. Agatha to Montreal and joined the Jesuits.  Some time in 1862 he and Father Vasseur. S.J., gave a Mission here and in the other centres of the County.  Later he left the Order and became pastor of a New York church for many



years.  He resigned and lived a few years retired in some part of New Jersey. He died in the 90's.
    The Rev.  Joseph Schweitzer, C.R., was the first St. Agatha youth who entered the priesthood as far as known.  He was born in the parish and received his elementary schooling in the Josephburg School.  Later he entered St.Jerome's College in the latter 60's, then went to Rome for his Novitiate and Theological studies, and was Ordained there.  He returned to Berlin and worked at the College and in the Missions, and was called to Rome in 1911 to fill responsible offices in the Mother House.
The Orphanage furnished two priestly Vocations in Fathers Ignatius Perius C.R., and Joseph Phelan.
    Rev.  Alexander Mayer, now of Detroit, Mich., also is a native of St. Agatha parish, from Wellesley Village.  Having completed his elementary schooling, his family moved to Berlin, where he attended St. Jerome's College. Then they moved to Detroit, where he attended the Jesuit College and was later ordained for the Diocese of Detroit,

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