Leopoldine Society

The Leopoldinenstiftung for the Empire of Austria in support of the American missions (also: Leopoldinen mission club or Leopoldinen Foundation ) was a missionary society, money and in-kind donations for the Catholic Church of North America collected.

History

Led to the founding of the association or foundation gave the Hanoverian missionary Friedrich Reese (1791-1871), Vicar General of Cincinnati, had the deplorable state of the Catholic missions in America complained to stay in Vienna. This prompted the Emperor Francis I., to approve the UCITS in Vienna on May 13, 1829 club. Association's purpose was to support the mission affairs in the vast countries of North America and transported. Was named the Foundation in memory of the deceased in America Archduchess Leopoldine (1797-1826), daughter of Emperor Francis I, who had married in 1817 Dom Pietro I of Portugal and became Empress of Brazil. Supreme trustees of the Foundation have been Rudolph of Austria (1788-1831), Archbishop of Olomouc, and, as a deputy, Prince Archbishop Leopold Maximilian ( 1766-1831 ). The headquarters of the club was on the second floor of the Dominican monastery in the post, Vienna -Innere Stadt. The weekly club fee was initially a cruiser convention coin.

The oldest German missionary society was from 1831 to 1914 the reports of the Leopoldinen Foundation in Kaiserthume Austria, in support of the Catholic missions in America out and contributed to the construction of more than 400 churches in North America. With the end of the monarchy went out the activities of the Association in 1917 and became part of the Propagation of the Faith of the Pontifical Mission Societies.