ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 15th of March WELCOME! SAINT CLEMENT MARY HOFBAUER, PRIEST (John Dvorak - Saint Klemens Maria Hofbauer) The second founder of the Redemptorist Congregation, called “the Apostle of Vienna” was born at Tasswitz in Moravia, December 26, 1751; he died at Vienna March 15, 1821. HIS GREAT DESIRE WAS TO BECOME A PRIEST The youngest of twelve children, and son of a grazier and butcher, he was six years old when his father died. His great desire was to become a priest, but his family being unable to give him the necessary education he became a baker’s assistant, devoting all his spare time to study. THE HERMIT'S LIFE He was a servant in the Premonstratensian monastery of Bruck from 1771 to 1775, and then lived for some time as a hermit. When the Emperor Joseph II abolished hermitages he went to Vienna, where he worked once more as a baker. After two pilgrimages to Rome he again tried a hermit’s lif...