Bonaventure Lüthen
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Bonaventure Lüthen, S.D.S. (5 May 1846 - 10 December 1911), was a founding member of the Society of the Divine Savior, commonly called the Salvatorians, and a close collaborator of Venerable Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan. The cause for his beatification was introduced in 1943.
Life
Early life and ministry
Bernard Lüthen was born in Paderborn, Germany, to Henry and Theresia Luthen. As a young man, Bernard decided to follow his older brother, Karl, into the local diocesan seminary. After completing secondary studies in a local, Jesuit-run school, he entered the archdiocesan seminary in Paderborn. He was ordained a priest on 15 May 1872, in the Paderborn Cathedral.
Because of chronic ill health and the limitations placed on the Catholic Church by the Kulturkampf, a parish assignment was not possible. Father Bernard was assigned to serve as the private chaplain to the family of Baron von Brenken of Wewer. He dutifully served the family and household staff, gradually extending his pastoral care to include Christian mothers, for whom he created a magazine entitled Monica.
In 1877, he traveled to Donauwörth in Bavaria to begin work with Ludwig Auer, a lay Catholic who ran an institute and publishing house known as the Cassianeum.
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