Ensan30 | July 31, 2009 Saint Joseph Freinademetz (Chinese name: 若瑟聖福 / 若瑟圣福, pinyin: Shèngfú Ruòsè) (April 15, 1852 - January 28, 1908) as a member of the Society of the Divine Word, was a missionary in China. Freinademetz was born the fourth child … [Más]

Ensan30 | July 31, 2009 Saint Joseph Freinademetz (Chinese name: 若瑟聖福 / 若瑟圣福, pinyin: Shèngfú Ruòsè) (April 15, 1852 - January 28, 1908) as a member of the Society of the Divine Word, was a missionary in China. Freinademetz was born the fourth child of Giovanmattia and Anna Maria Freinademetz[1] in Oies a section of the town of Badia in the southern Dolomites, which was then part of Austria and now part of Italy. He studied theology in the diocesan seminary of Brixen and was ordained priest on July 25, 1875. He was assigned to the community of San Martin de Tor, not far from his own home. During his studies and the three years in San Martino, Freinademetz always felt a calling to be a missionary. He contacted Arnold Janssen, founder of the mission house Society of the Divine Word in Steyl, Netherlands. With the permission of his parents and his bishop, he moved to Steyl in August 1878, where he received training as a missionary.