Peter Roh

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Peter Roh ; and Pierre Roh , SJ (* 14. August 1811 in Conthey ; † 17th May 1872 in Bonn ) was a Swiss Jesuit, folk missionary and teacher.

Life

Peter Roh was born as the son of the father of the same name, Peter Roh, winemaker and farmer and his wife Anna Marie Roh.

He attended the Jesuit grammar school in Brig and the Jesuit college in Sion . In 1829 he entered the Jesuit order as a novice in Stäffis . He received his philosophical and theological training at the Jesuit college in Brig and the Jesuit college in Freiburg . He was ordained a priest on September 19, 1840 .

From 1842 to 1845 he was a teacher of dogmatics in the lower grammar school classes at the Jesuit college in Freiburg and from autumn 1845 to 1847 at the school in Lucerne (today: Cantonal School Alpenquai Lucerne ). Due to the Sonderbund War , in which he worked as a field priest, he had to flee to Oleggio near Novara at the end of November 1847 ; The Jesuits gathering there had to disperse again in January 1848, as the Piedmontese police declared themselves unable to protect them. He stayed briefly in Linz and Gries and then became tutor to Constantin Siegwart-Müller , who had fled from Lucerne to Rappoltsweiler in Alsace , where he also worked as a preacher.

In September 1849 he was appointed professor of dogmatics in the Jesuit college in Leuven , but in August 1850 he was sent to Germany to hold popular missions with other Jesuits . As a mission preacher and confessor , he has now been active for almost twenty years, spending 10-14 days in different places in northern and southern Germany, but also in Prague , Switzerland and Copenhagen . In addition to sermons, he also gave religious lectures for the educated in many places and gave retreats .

In 1858 he became cathedral preacher and teacher of dogmatics in Paderborn .

From 1863 to 1872 he was a pulpit and lecturer in the Maria Laach Abbey . At Easter 1872 he moved to Bonn and gave a few religious lectures there before he died shortly afterwards.

His passion was the defense of church and order, and even Protestants recognized him as an eloquent speaker.

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  1. ^ Jesuit Church Franz Xaver Lucerne. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
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SURNAME Raw, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roh, Peter SJ; Roh, Peter; Roh, P .; Raw, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Jesuit and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Conthey
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1872
Place of death Bonn