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1824, a boy named Loepold Moczygemba. His parents, Leopold and Eva nee Krawiec, were peasant folk in the village of P^uznica in the Opole Regency of Upper Silesia. Young Leopold grew up in the village, attending elementary school in the nearby town of Gliwice. As a young man, Leopold travelled to Italy, where on November 17, 1843, 18 he entered the Conventual Franciscan brotherhood. Leopold studied in Italy for several years and then travelled to Bavaria for additional study. In Italy he spent time at Osimo, Urbino, and Pesaro. It was at Pesaro, on July 25, 1847, that he was ordained a priest. From Italy, at just less than twenty-three years of age, Leopold was sent by the Franciscan Minister General to Wuerzburg, Bavaria, for additional study. When Moczygemba was in Bavaria, a significant thing happened to change the course of his life. Bishop J. M. Odin of Texas, while traveling through Europe in search of more priests for his American diocese, visited the motherhouse of the German Conventual Franciscans at Oggersheim, Bavaria. Among the five Conventual Franciscan 18 Kruszka, p. 361; Joseph Swastek, Priest and Pioneer, Rev. Leopold Moczygemba (Detroit: The Conventual Press, 1951) , p. 3. The surname Moczygemba is spelled several different ways. In proper Polish it is Moczyg^ba. However, in Texas various members of the family spelled it Moczigemba and Moczygemba. This latter spelling is used by most of their descendents at the present time.
10 friars who accepted his mission call to America was Father Leopold Bonaventura Moczygemba, then not quite twenty-eight years old and only in the fifth year of his priesthood. 19 In March 1852, Bishop Odin and his party of newly recruited European priests departed from Havre, France, for Galveston. After their arrival several weeks later, the bishop ordered the new missionaries to their posts. Father Leopold was first directed to serve as parish priest in the German community of New Braunfels, between San Antonio and Austin, Texas. Here, in 1852, he was the first resident priest to serve this settlement. After having served at New Braunfels for two years, Moczygemba was then transferred in early 1854 to the Alsatian settlement of Castroville, about twenty-five miles west of San Antonio. 20 pastor for about ten months. He served this community as Knowing the conditions in Upper Silesia and seeing the greatly improved material and social conditions of 19 Sister Mary Carmelita Glennon, "History of the Diocese of Galveston, 1847-1874" (unpublished M. A. thesis. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1943), p. 53; Swastek, pp. 3-4. 20 Oscar Haas, History of New Braunfels and Comal County, Texas 1844-1946 (Austin: Steck Company, 196 8), p. 301; Kruszka, p. 362; Parish Records, St. Louis Church, Castroville, Texas.
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through Berlin in September 1854, a
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91 to San Antonio. Since San Antoni
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Czestochowa, only five miles north
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95 which draw large numbers of visi
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Brozek, Andrzej, and Borek, Henryk.
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Haiman, Miecislaus. Polish Past in
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Lyssy, Albert. Military Service Rec
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