Background
Daniel Bible Foley was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 3, 1913 the son of Michael and Helen Bible Foley.
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Theodore Foley
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Education
He attended Mass at Sacred Heart parish in Springfield. He was educated at Sacred Heart Grammar School, Cathedral High School, and later Holy Cross Preparatory Seminary, Dunkirk, New New York
Career
French On May 9, 2008, the cause for beatification and canonization of Father Foley was opened in Rome. On April 23, 1940, he was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood, in Baltimore, Maryland, by Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. He was superior general of the Passionist men"s religious order from 1964 until his death on October 9, 1974.
In 1944 he graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Theology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, District of Columbia From 1953 to 1956 he was Director of Passionist Seminarians.
In 1956 he was appointed Rector of Saint Paul"s Monastery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On May 7, 1964 French He was the first American from the eastern United States to hold this position.
In 1970 he was re-elected as Superior General. He died after contracting an illness on a trip to Asia.
On June 23, 2009, Springfield Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell was on hand at the Sacred Heart Church in order to bless a ceremony in honor of French
Theodore Foley. Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell said of French Foley:
There is holiness and then there is the superheroes of holiness, and many people recognized him as a superhero of holiness.
Father Foley is the only person to ever be a candidate for sainthood in western Massachusetts.
Membership
From 1944 he taught theology as a member of the Passionist Seminary faculty at Saint Michael"s Monastery, Union City, New Jersey.
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Religion
Roman Catholic