Lives of the Brethren 1969-1973 -
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Published on: 10/7/2001
Last Visited: 7/11/2002
Peter Ralph O'Brien | Giles Waskowski | Victor Humbert Wrobleski | Joseph Sylvester Considine | John Leonard Curran | Matthew Burke | Ambrose Wilhelm Jura | Leo Martin Shea | Thomas Humbert Dailey | William Humbert Kane | John Francis Connell | Marcellus John Nugent | Dennis Ambrose McNamara | Martin Ambrose McDermott | Andrew John Henry | Bernard Isidore Roberts | Walter James Conway | William Humbert Crilly | John Bernard Schneider | Robert Ignatius Tucker
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FATHER JOHN BERNARD SCHNEIDER
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John Bernard SchneiderFather John Bernard Schneider was born in Lansing, Michigan on August 2, 1905.He received his early education at St. Mary's parochial school in Lansing, completing high school at Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit, with further studies at Providence College in preparation for entrance into the Dominican Order.Two of his younger brothers followed him to the Dominican priesthood.
He entered the Order at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky and made profession there on September 9, 1926.Studies followed at River Forest, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., where he was ordained on May 20, 1932.
Over the years, Father Schneider exercised a varied apostolate: associate pastor twice at St. Dominic's in Denver; once at St. Albert's, Minneapolis, St. Vincent Ferrer, River Forest, and St. Pius, Chicago.He was pastor of Blessed Sacrament parish in Madison, Wisconsin.In all these assignments he also served as local director of the Dominican Third Order.For eight years he was Provincial Promoter of the Third Order, the Rosary Confraternity, and the Angelic Warfare.
After serving as chaplain for the Dominican Motherhouse in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, he was assigned as chaplain at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in.Houston, Texas where he died on November 20, 1971 following open-heart surgery.Following services at Holy Rosary Church, he was buried in Houston, Texas.