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Father Mazzuchelli by J.F.
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| Father Samuel Mazzuchelli was born in 1806. He was the fifteenth child out of sixteen born to his family. At the age of six, his mother died. That same year, 1812, he left home and went to live with relatives. | |
| Father Mazzuchelli arrived in Lyon, France. When he was eighteen he left Lyon and went to America. When Father Mazzuchelli was eighteen he had a portrait painted of himself, this is now located at Sinsinawa Mound. His little sister sent the portrait to Sinsinawa Mound even though his family didn't want it to go there. | |
| After he arrived in America, he decided to stay for a long while working to convert people to become Christians. After that he went back home and on the way he wrote a book on his life in America. The title in English was Memorie. Father built twenty-one churches in the tri-state area. One of the churches father built was the Cathedral in Dubuque. | |
| Father Mazzuchelli named twelve streets in Shullsburg Wisconsin. After the twelve virtues of life. Father built and founded a school for boys in Sinsinawa. In February of 1864, Father died in Benton Wisconsin. He was only fifty-eight years old. When two of Father's friends buried him, they found a chain around his waist that he wore for penance. Skin was starting to grow over the chain. When they removed the chain from his body, there was a mark where it had been. | |
| They sent the chain to Sinsinawa Mound because he founded it. When people are badly hurt they call Sinsinawa Mound and people come to pray with the chain. | |
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Bibliography Field Trip to Mazzuchelli Musuem Memorie, Fr. Mazzucchelli
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