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Michael Heiss was born on April 12, 1818 in Pfahldorf, Bavaria, Germany, of Bavarian peasant stock, the son of Joseph and Gertrude (Frei) Heiss.
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Michael Heiss was born on April 12, 1818 in Pfahldorf, Bavaria, Germany, of Bavarian peasant stock, the son of Joseph and Gertrude (Frei) Heiss.
After completing his grammar school course in Pfahldorf without showing much promise, Michael's parents risked sending him to high school in Eichstätt. He was finally told to make good in Latin or go home. He managed to escape this penalty, and thereafter his school record was invariably satisfactory. In 1831 he went to the Gymnasium of Neuburg on the Danube; from 1835 to 1839 he was at the University of Munich; and from 1839 to 1840 in the diocesan seminary of Eichstätt. The university in his day was celebrated by such names as Görres, Döllinger, and Moehler. Heiss stated that the last of these influenced the turn of his life, and that Moehler’s work, Symbolik, and Friedrich von Hurter’s Geschichte Papst Innocens des Dritten, formed the basis for his future career.
After ordination at Nymphenburg, October 18, 1840, Michael Heiss resided as curate in Raitenbuch, but his work lay in four nearby missions. A visit of Bishop John Purcell of Cincinnati, Heiss’s interest in news letters in the French, Austrian, and Bavarian missionary pamphlets and the stimulus of an American friend, Revolutioner Charles Boeswald, influenced him to come to the United States.
Heiss arrived late in 1842 and was assigned to Covington, Kentucky, where he remained about a year, and in 1844, as secretary, accompanied Bishop John Henni to Milwaukee.
For a number of years he acted as pastor for the Germans of St. Mary’s, Milwaukee, and visited missions within a radius of fifty miles. He was the first rector of St. Francis Seminary, St. Francis, Wisconsin (1856 - 1868), an institution which he helped to found and in which he did heroic teaching in the branches of theology, canon law, and scripture.
As the first bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin (1868 - 1880), he carried heavy burdens. One of his letters tells of eleven addresses given in one day and naively goes on about the next day and its tasks. His letters, published as “Reminiscences, ” are as edifying and piquant as the Confessions of St. Augustine.
Heiss became archbishop of Milwaukee in 1880, and was an opponent of the Americanist heresy. He died in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and was buried in St. Francis, Wisconsin.
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Contemporaries considered Heiss apostolic in humility and zeal, a characteristic which he unwittingly betrayed in his pen name Caecus Videns, “Blind (himself) Seeing (for others). ”