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Post by tex on Apr 27, 2008 10:19:07 GMT -7
Since Jaga posted the nice photos of her daughter's first communion, I thought about my own first communion many years ago and here's a quiz related to it.
Father Diefenbach, the priest who gave me my first communion was world famous for something he did in Europe as an army chaplain near the end of World War II. What did he do that made him so famous?
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Post by wayneprice on Apr 27, 2008 11:27:53 GMT -7
Tex,
Actually an easy one. Chaplain Diefenbach, while decorated with the Bronze Star for his actions administering the scarements to soldiers, especially the wounded and dying, is best known as the Chaplain that passed thru Russian lines with forged papers to return the "Hand of St. Stephan", patron saint of Hungary, to Budapest.
Is that what you were looking for?
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Post by tex on Apr 27, 2008 14:38:45 GMT -7
Yes Wayne, that's right, the return of the hand of St. Stephen was his most famous deed.
I remember him as a really nice, but bigger than life person. Father Diefenbach died in an airplane crash about a month after my first communion, but the people at St Theresa's church in Houston still remember and honor him and whenever I run into one of the old timers from that parish, the conversation usually turns to Father Diefenbach.
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Post by Jaga on Apr 27, 2008 20:34:00 GMT -7
+++the return of the hand of St. Stephen was his most famous deed+++
it is amazing and I did not know anything about it. Thanks for a reminder to all of us
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