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Benedict Joseph Flaget SS (November 7, 1763 –
February 11, 1850) was a French-born
Catholic prelate who
served as
Bishop of
Bardstown from 1808 to 1839...
- 38°15′22″N 85°49′30″W / 38.25620°N 85.82500°W / 38.25620; -85.82500
Flaget High
School was a
Catholic College preparatory high
school in Louisville...
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appointed Benedict Flaget as the
first bishop of Bardstown.
Flaget resisted the appointment, but Pius VII
insisted he take it. In 1811,
Flaget started St. Thomas...
- now a
parish church.
Flaget was
responsible for a
growing network of congregations. John
Baptist Mary
David (who had been with
Flaget in
Kentucky since 1810)...
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operates five
primary and
secondary schools for
children in the city.
Bishop Flaget School is a
private Catholic school for
students in
grades prekindergarten...
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Saint Joseph Hospital is 468-bed
medical center located two
miles southwest of
downtown Lexington, Kentucky,
United States.
Founded in 1877, it is Lexington's...
- had
appointed as
coadjutor bishop in the
diocese while Flaget was away in Europe. When
Flaget returned home in 1840,
Spalding tendered him his resignation...
- Abbé Chicoisneau, Abbé John
Baptist Mary David, and Abbé
Benedict Joseph Flaget. Two
seminarians arrived with them,
Stephen T.
Badin and
another named Barret...
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cardinals and luminaries,
including Vincent Strambi and
Benedict Joseph Flaget. Her
beatification process was
opened in 1863
under Pope Pius IX, granting...
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first Catholic seminary on the
American frontier,
moved to the Howard-
Flaget House on the
church property in 1795 and
continued to
operate there until...
