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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...
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Flaget High
School was a
Catholic College preparatory high
school in Louisville...
- 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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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...
- The
church of St Thomas, the
Apostle and Howard-
Flaget House is a
historic Roman Catholic church and home
located at Bardstown,
Nelson County, Kentucky...
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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...
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diocese in the
United States, was
established in 1808, with
Benedict Joseph Flaget as the
first Bishop of Bardstown. The
diocese included most of Kentucky...
- moved.
During its
years as a cathedral, the
pastor was
Benedict Joseph Flaget, the
first bishop of Bardstown. The
cornerstone was laid on July 16, 1816...
- parents,
Leslie and
Rosena (Hoffman) Schnellenberger. He
graduated from
Flaget High
School in Louisville, Kentucky,
where he pla**** football, basketball...
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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...
