Blessed James Grissinger
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- Also known as
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James Griesinger
James of Ulm
- Memorial
- 11 October
- Profile
- Mercenary for the army of Naples in 1432.
Disillusioned with military life, he spent five years as a lawyer's secretary in Capua.
Falling on hard financial times, he briefly rejoined the army, then left for his true vocation, becoming a Dominican lay brother in Bologna in 1441.
Spent most of the next 50 years working in stained glass and painting images on the windows of churches.
- Born
- 1407 at Ulm, Swabia (modern Germany)
- Died
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11 October 1491 in Bologna, Italy of natural causes
interred in the Basilica of Saint Dominic in Bologna
- Beatified
- 1825 by Pope Leo XII
- Canonized
- pending
- Patronage
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glass painters
stained glass window workers
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