Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

Prince Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (17 August 1794 – 17 November 1849) was a German priest and reputed miracle-worker.

Early life and education Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was born at Kupferzell, near Waldenburg. He was a son of Charles Albert II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1742-1796) and his second wife, Hungarian Baroness Judith Reviczky de Revišné (from 1753 to 1836), the daughter of a Hungarian nobleman. They entrusted his early education to the church and ex-Jesuit Rid. In 1804, he entered the Theresianum at Vienna, in 1808 the academy at Bern, in 1810 the archiepiscopal seminary at Vienna, and afterwards he studied at Tyrnau and Ellwangen.

Career He was ordained priest in 1815, and in the following year he went to Rome. On his return he made a pilgrimage to Loreto, and again arrived at Munich on 23 March 1817. In June of the same year he was made ecclesiastical councillor, and in 1821, canon of Bamberg. It was reported to William Matthews, pastor of St. Patrick's, that Mattingly was instantly restored to health and that even large bedsores on her back had disappeared. Matthews immediately went to visit her; according to him, she was smiling and greeted him at the door. Mattingly's quick recovery was noted by several prominent Washington physicians, and by those attending to her, as shocking. When word of the event circulated, it was sensationalized by the local press. Matthews responded by criticizing the priests who exaggerated the story, but described the event to the National Intelligencer as a miracle.

Ultimately, on account of the interference of the authorities with his operations, he went to Vienna in 1821 and then to Hungary, where he became a canon of Grosswardein. In 1844 he was made titular Bishop of Sardica. In 1849, he died at Vöslau near Vienna.

Alexander was the author of a number of ascetic and controversial writings, which were collected and published in one edition by S. Brunner in 1851.

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