World War I Chaplains - Daniel Brottier, Francis P. Duffy, John Joseph Mitty, Matthew Mullineux, Theodore Hardy, William Thomas Havard, Rupert Mayer, Christopher Chavasse, Kenneth Kirk, Walter Julius Carey, George Long, John B. Devalles (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Daniel Brottier, Francis P. Duffy, John Joseph Mitty, Matthew Mullineux, Theodore Hardy, William Thomas Havard, Rupert Mayer, Christopher Chavasse, Kenneth Kirk, Walter Julius Carey, George Long, John B. DeValles, Jakob Weis, John Chapman, Jenkin Alban Davies, William Sidney Shacklette, Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, Edwin Ferdinand Lee, Clare Purcell, Charles Prescott, Edward Mellish, Barry O'Toole, Frederick Waldegrave Head, Tubby Clayton, Albert Braun, George Armitage Chase, Giuseppe Ricciotti, Bernhard Schwentner, J. C. Tolmie, Willie Doyle, Harry Elmore Hurd, Colman O'Flaherty, William Addison, Hugh Leycester Hornby, William Wilson Cash, David Williams, Augustus F. Gearhard, Joseph John Booth, Arthur Edwin Ross. Excerpt: Blessed Daniel Jules Alexis Brottier, C.S.Sp. (September 7, 1876 - February 28, 1936) was a French Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Legion d'honneur for his services as a chaplain during World War I, did missionary work in Senegal, and administered an orphanage in Auteuil, a suburb of Paris. He was declared venerable in 1983, and beatified on November 25, 1984, by Pope John Paul II. Daniel Brottier was born in La Ferte-Saint-Cyr, France on September 7, 1876, the second son of Jean-Baptiste Brottier-a coachman for the Marquis Durfort-and his wife Herminie (nee Bouthe). Signs of a priestly vocation were evident early in Brottier's life. A story from his childhood recounts that his mother asked him what he would like to be when he grew up. Daniel's answer was, "I won't be either a general or a pastry chef-I will be the Pope " His mother reminded him that to be the pope, he would first have to become a priest. At the age of 10, Brottier made his First Communion, and enrolled a year later in the junior seminary at...