Joseph Savelberg
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Heerlen
Heerlen is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the province of Limburg. It forms part of Parkstad Limburg, , an agglomeration of about 220,000 inhabitants.After its early Roman beginnings and a rather modest medieval period, Heerlen...
– 11 February 1907, Heerlen
Heerlen
Heerlen is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the province of Limburg. It forms part of Parkstad Limburg, , an agglomeration of about 220,000 inhabitants.After its early Roman beginnings and a rather modest medieval period, Heerlen...
) was a Roman-Catholic priest
Priest
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and congregation founder (missionary).
Peter Savelberg attended school in Heerlen and after that at Rolduc
Rolduc
Rolduc is the name of a medieval abbey in Kerkrade, the Netherlands, which is now a Roman Catholic seminary and an affiliated conferencing center.-History:...
(1843 to 1845). Leaving his brother Balthasar Savelberg, who was in charge of a glassmaking shop in Brussels
Brussels
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, he returned to Heerlen because he could not adjust. Between 1846 and 1849 he attended Rolduc yet again, and after 1849 he gave seminars in Roermond
Roermond
Roermond is a city, a municipality, and a diocese in the southeastern part of the Netherlands.The city of Roermond is a historically important town, on the lower Roer at the east bank of the Meuse river. It received city rights in 1231...
. In 1852, Savelberg was made priest, his first task was as a teacher at the Bischoppelijk College in Roermond (1853–1856).
In 1856 he became rector
Rector
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of the Franciscans of Heythuysen
Heythuysen
Heythuysen is a town in the south-eastern Netherlands.Until it became a part of Leudal on 1 January 2007, Heythuysen was a separate municipality, including the villages of Baexem, Grathem, and Kelpen-Oler. Heythuysen is home of the famous Grand Café Tom Tom.-External links:*...
, for whom he worked at the girl pension
Pension
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Nonnenwerth
Nonnenwerth
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close to Bonn
Bonn
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. In 1863 the bishop
Bishop
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called him back and made him chaplain
Chaplain
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in Schaesberg
Schaesberg
Schaesberg is a neighbourhood of Landgraaf in the Dutch province of Limburg.Schaesberg was a separate municipality until 1982, when it merged with Nieuwenhagen and Ubach over Worms to form the new municipality Landgraaf....
and in 1865 of the Saint Pancras parish in Heerlen.