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Born in Germany, John was orphaned at the age of 12 when his father, a cobbler by trade, passed away. As was the custom at the time, he was taken to the village square and sold to a foster family. The family treated him decently and John was apprenticed out to learn the tailor trade.
At the age of 22 he left for England, spending the next few years employed in tailor shops in London & Wales. On a whim, he decided to take the ferry to Dublin and explore the city. Ireland became his home for the remainder of his life and this German Lutheran became a widely respected, and now venerated, almost Saintly figure to many Irish Catholics.
In Dublin, he was hired on at the North King Street tailor shop of a Mr Reynolds, with whom he would spend the rest of his employment career. These early years of his adulthood found Steiner on a spiritual quest for answers not met by his Lutheran upbringing. His tailor job in Dublin would prove life changing.
In his autobiography, Steiner credits a shop customer, Mrs. Coleman of Phibsboro, as the individual most responsible for his conversion to Catholicism. The same Mrs. Coleman introduced John to the renowned 'Famine Priest' Fr. John Gowan and to Margaret Aylward, the Foundress of the Holy Faith Sisters, St. Brigid's Orphanages and the many associated schools. For the next almost 60 years the orphans of St. Brigid's would be central to John Steiner's life.
The Irish in the mid and late 19th century were far from recovered from the devastation of ethnic cleansing wrought by the holocaust known as the Great Famine, inflicted on the nation by an alien occupying power. The population that survived was largely destitute & great numbers of children were orphaned or homeless. In an effort to eradicate the last vestiges of Irish culture, groups from the foreign occupying power set up vast work homes and poor houses to take in the orphaned and destitute. Upon entering, and in return for just enough sustenance to keep them alive, they were forcibly converted to a different religious faith.
Fr Gowan and Margaret Aylward created St Brigid's Orphanage to rescue children from these hellish institutions. The children of St Brigid's were cared for with love and dignity, schooled in their own culture & language and placed with compassionate Irish Catholic foster families. But the orphanage couldn't operate without money.
From the start, despite being employed full time, John Steiner became an indefatigable collector of donations for St. Brigid's. He long expressed a desire to devote himself full time to collecting the funds but as his nearly 6 decades of work for the orphans was strictly voluntary, he needed to earn an income for himself. He stayed on with Mr. Reynolds at the tailor shop until Reynolds passing in the late 1870s. Thereafter, John was a collector full time, every day. He became well known, not just in the city of Dublin, but all throughout Ireland, as from the late 1870s until 1914 he travelled the range of the island, east, west, up to the north and down to the south collecting funds to keep the orphanage running.
Late in life and at a greatly advanced age, starting in 1914 John himself suffered at the hand of the hostile alien occupiers of Ireland. In the lead up to Europe's Great War, one of history's most perversely ironic acts was passed into "law". The alien power occupying Ireland passed an "alien" restriction law, deporting "aliens" and removing any vestiges of freedom from those that remained in Ireland. They did not apply it to themselves.
Born in Germany, John was thusly considered an alien by the aliens. As his home was in Dublin, Steiner was not allowed to leave the city limits to collect. Even as he remained in Dublin, collecting what he could locally, he was harassed and persecuted by the actual aliens under the guise of their perverse "law". This included arrest & a fine for having gone to collect a donation from outside the city limits.
Till the end of his life, despite the ravages of age and terrorization of the hostile alien occupiers, Steiner continued to work full time as a collector for Ireland's orphans and destitute children. His final illness found him in Dublin's Mater Hospital, surrounded at his bedside by the Holy Faith nuns praying for him. His last words were to a Sister, directing her to find an orphanage collection in the pocket of his overcoat. It was mere weeks later that heroic Irishmen & Irishwoman fought the Easter Rebellion to force out the aliens.
✞ John Joseph Steiner is buried at the Sister's Cemetery on the grounds of the Holy Faith Convent in Glasnevin. His final resting place being in this small graveyard, reserved for the Sister's of the order, stands as testament to his importance to the Orphanage and the reverence in which he is held in by the Holy Faith Religious. Buried nearby are the cofounders of St. Brigid's, Margaret Aylward and Fr. John Gowan C. M. A section of his adopted homeland remains under alien occupation 100 years later.
Born in Germany, John was orphaned at the age of 12 when his father, a cobbler by trade, passed away. As was the custom at the time, he was taken to the village square and sold to a foster family. The family treated him decently and John was apprenticed out to learn the tailor trade.
At the age of 22 he left for England, spending the next few years employed in tailor shops in London & Wales. On a whim, he decided to take the ferry to Dublin and explore the city. Ireland became his home for the remainder of his life and this German Lutheran became a widely respected, and now venerated, almost Saintly figure to many Irish Catholics.
In Dublin, he was hired on at the North King Street tailor shop of a Mr Reynolds, with whom he would spend the rest of his employment career. These early years of his adulthood found Steiner on a spiritual quest for answers not met by his Lutheran upbringing. His tailor job in Dublin would prove life changing.
In his autobiography, Steiner credits a shop customer, Mrs. Coleman of Phibsboro, as the individual most responsible for his conversion to Catholicism. The same Mrs. Coleman introduced John to the renowned 'Famine Priest' Fr. John Gowan and to Margaret Aylward, the Foundress of the Holy Faith Sisters, St. Brigid's Orphanages and the many associated schools. For the next almost 60 years the orphans of St. Brigid's would be central to John Steiner's life.
The Irish in the mid and late 19th century were far from recovered from the devastation of ethnic cleansing wrought by the holocaust known as the Great Famine, inflicted on the nation by an alien occupying power. The population that survived was largely destitute & great numbers of children were orphaned or homeless. In an effort to eradicate the last vestiges of Irish culture, groups from the foreign occupying power set up vast work homes and poor houses to take in the orphaned and destitute. Upon entering, and in return for just enough sustenance to keep them alive, they were forcibly converted to a different religious faith.
Fr Gowan and Margaret Aylward created St Brigid's Orphanage to rescue children from these hellish institutions. The children of St Brigid's were cared for with love and dignity, schooled in their own culture & language and placed with compassionate Irish Catholic foster families. But the orphanage couldn't operate without money.
From the start, despite being employed full time, John Steiner became an indefatigable collector of donations for St. Brigid's. He long expressed a desire to devote himself full time to collecting the funds but as his nearly 6 decades of work for the orphans was strictly voluntary, he needed to earn an income for himself. He stayed on with Mr. Reynolds at the tailor shop until Reynolds passing in the late 1870s. Thereafter, John was a collector full time, every day. He became well known, not just in the city of Dublin, but all throughout Ireland, as from the late 1870s until 1914 he travelled the range of the island, east, west, up to the north and down to the south collecting funds to keep the orphanage running.
Late in life and at a greatly advanced age, starting in 1914 John himself suffered at the hand of the hostile alien occupiers of Ireland. In the lead up to Europe's Great War, one of history's most perversely ironic acts was passed into "law". The alien power occupying Ireland passed an "alien" restriction law, deporting "aliens" and removing any vestiges of freedom from those that remained in Ireland. They did not apply it to themselves.
Born in Germany, John was thusly considered an alien by the aliens. As his home was in Dublin, Steiner was not allowed to leave the city limits to collect. Even as he remained in Dublin, collecting what he could locally, he was harassed and persecuted by the actual aliens under the guise of their perverse "law". This included arrest & a fine for having gone to collect a donation from outside the city limits.
Till the end of his life, despite the ravages of age and terrorization of the hostile alien occupiers, Steiner continued to work full time as a collector for Ireland's orphans and destitute children. His final illness found him in Dublin's Mater Hospital, surrounded at his bedside by the Holy Faith nuns praying for him. His last words were to a Sister, directing her to find an orphanage collection in the pocket of his overcoat. It was mere weeks later that heroic Irishmen & Irishwoman fought the Easter Rebellion to force out the aliens.
✞ John Joseph Steiner is buried at the Sister's Cemetery on the grounds of the Holy Faith Convent in Glasnevin. His final resting place being in this small graveyard, reserved for the Sister's of the order, stands as testament to his importance to the Orphanage and the reverence in which he is held in by the Holy Faith Religious. Buried nearby are the cofounders of St. Brigid's, Margaret Aylward and Fr. John Gowan C. M. A section of his adopted homeland remains under alien occupation 100 years later.
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Born in Germany, John was orphaned at the age of 12 when his father, a cobbler by trade, passed away. As was the custom at the time, he was taken to the village square and sold to a foster family. The family treated him decently and John was apprenticed out to learn the tailor trade.
At the age of 22 he left for England, spending the next few years employed in tailor shops in London & Wales. On a whim, he decided to take the ferry to Dublin and explore the city. Ireland became his home for the remainder of his life and this German Lutheran became a widely respected, and now venerated, almost Saintly figure to many Irish Catholics.
In Dublin, he was hired on at the North King Street tailor shop of a Mr Reynolds, with whom he would spend the rest of his employment career. These early years of his adulthood found Steiner on a spiritual quest for answers not met by his Lutheran upbringing. His tailor job in Dublin would prove life changing.
In his autobiography, Steiner credits a shop customer, Mrs. Coleman of Phibsboro, as the individual most responsible for his conversion to Catholicism. The same Mrs. Coleman introduced John to the renowned 'Famine Priest' Fr. John Gowan and to Margaret Aylward, the Foundress of the Holy Faith Sisters, St. Brigid's Orphanages and the many associated schools. For the next almost 60 years the orphans of St. Brigid's would be central to John Steiner's life.
The Irish in the mid and late 19th century were far from recovered from the devastation of ethnic cleansing wrought by the holocaust known as the Great Famine, inflicted on the nation by an alien occupying power. The population that survived was largely destitute & great numbers of children were orphaned or homeless. In an effort to eradicate the last vestiges of Irish culture, groups from the foreign occupying power set up vast work homes and poor houses to take in the orphaned and destitute. Upon entering, and in return for just enough sustenance to keep them alive, they were forcibly converted to a different religious faith.
Fr Gowan and Margaret Aylward created St Brigid's Orphanage to rescue children from these hellish institutions. The children of St Brigid's were cared for with love and dignity, schooled in their own culture & language and placed with compassionate Irish Catholic foster families. But the orphanage couldn't operate without money.
From the start, despite being employed full time, John Steiner became an indefatigable collector of donations for St. Brigid's. He long expressed a desire to devote himself full time to collecting the funds but as his nearly 6 decades of work for the orphans was strictly voluntary, he needed to earn an income for himself. He stayed on with Mr. Reynolds at the tailor shop until Reynolds passing in the late 1870s. Thereafter, John was a collector full time, every day. He became well known, not just in the city of Dublin, but all throughout Ireland, as from the late 1870s until 1914 he travelled the range of the island, east, west, up to the north and down to the south collecting funds to keep the orphanage running.
Late in life and at a greatly advanced age, starting in 1914 John himself suffered at the hand of the hostile alien occupiers of Ireland. In the lead up to Europe's Great War, one of history's most perversely ironic acts was passed into "law". The alien power occupying Ireland passed an "alien" restriction law, deporting "aliens" and removing any vestiges of freedom from those that remained in Ireland. They did not apply it to themselves.
Born in Germany, John was thusly considered an alien by the aliens. As his home was in Dublin, Steiner was not allowed to leave the city limits to collect. Even as he remained in Dublin, collecting what he could locally, he was harassed and persecuted by the actual aliens under the guise of their perverse "law". This included arrest & a fine for having gone to collect a donation from outside the city limits.
Till the end of his life, despite the ravages of age and terrorization of the hostile alien occupiers, Steiner continued to work full time as a collector for Ireland's orphans and destitute children. His final illness found him in Dublin's Mater Hospital, surrounded at his bedside by the Holy Faith nuns praying for him. His last words were to a Sister, directing her to find an orphanage collection in the pocket of his overcoat. It was mere weeks later that heroic Irishmen & Irishwoman fought the Easter Rebellion to force out the aliens.
✞ John Joseph Steiner is buried at the Sister's Cemetery on the grounds of the Holy Faith Convent in Glasnevin. His final resting place being in this small graveyard, reserved for the Sister's of the order, stands as testament to his importance to the Orphanage and the reverence in which he is held in by the Holy Faith Religious. Buried nearby are the cofounders of St. Brigid's, Margaret Aylward and Fr. John Gowan C. M. A section of his adopted homeland remains under alien occupation 100 years later.
Born in Germany, John was orphaned at the age of 12 when his father, a cobbler by trade, passed away. As was the custom at the time, he was taken to the village square and sold to a foster family. The family treated him decently and John was apprenticed out to learn the tailor trade.
At the age of 22 he left for England, spending the next few years employed in tailor shops in London & Wales. On a whim, he decided to take the ferry to Dublin and explore the city. Ireland became his home for the remainder of his life and this German Lutheran became a widely respected, and now venerated, almost Saintly figure to many Irish Catholics.
In Dublin, he was hired on at the North King Street tailor shop of a Mr Reynolds, with whom he would spend the rest of his employment career. These early years of his adulthood found Steiner on a spiritual quest for answers not met by his Lutheran upbringing. His tailor job in Dublin would prove life changing.
In his autobiography, Steiner credits a shop customer, Mrs. Coleman of Phibsboro, as the individual most responsible for his conversion to Catholicism. The same Mrs. Coleman introduced John to the renowned 'Famine Priest' Fr. John Gowan and to Margaret Aylward, the Foundress of the Holy Faith Sisters, St. Brigid's Orphanages and the many associated schools. For the next almost 60 years the orphans of St. Brigid's would be central to John Steiner's life.
The Irish in the mid and late 19th century were far from recovered from the devastation of ethnic cleansing wrought by the holocaust known as the Great Famine, inflicted on the nation by an alien occupying power. The population that survived was largely destitute & great numbers of children were orphaned or homeless. In an effort to eradicate the last vestiges of Irish culture, groups from the foreign occupying power set up vast work homes and poor houses to take in the orphaned and destitute. Upon entering, and in return for just enough sustenance to keep them alive, they were forcibly converted to a different religious faith.
Fr Gowan and Margaret Aylward created St Brigid's Orphanage to rescue children from these hellish institutions. The children of St Brigid's were cared for with love and dignity, schooled in their own culture & language and placed with compassionate Irish Catholic foster families. But the orphanage couldn't operate without money.
From the start, despite being employed full time, John Steiner became an indefatigable collector of donations for St. Brigid's. He long expressed a desire to devote himself full time to collecting the funds but as his nearly 6 decades of work for the orphans was strictly voluntary, he needed to earn an income for himself. He stayed on with Mr. Reynolds at the tailor shop until Reynolds passing in the late 1870s. Thereafter, John was a collector full time, every day. He became well known, not just in the city of Dublin, but all throughout Ireland, as from the late 1870s until 1914 he travelled the range of the island, east, west, up to the north and down to the south collecting funds to keep the orphanage running.
Late in life and at a greatly advanced age, starting in 1914 John himself suffered at the hand of the hostile alien occupiers of Ireland. In the lead up to Europe's Great War, one of history's most perversely ironic acts was passed into "law". The alien power occupying Ireland passed an "alien" restriction law, deporting "aliens" and removing any vestiges of freedom from those that remained in Ireland. They did not apply it to themselves.
Born in Germany, John was thusly considered an alien by the aliens. As his home was in Dublin, Steiner was not allowed to leave the city limits to collect. Even as he remained in Dublin, collecting what he could locally, he was harassed and persecuted by the actual aliens under the guise of their perverse "law". This included arrest & a fine for having gone to collect a donation from outside the city limits.
Till the end of his life, despite the ravages of age and terrorization of the hostile alien occupiers, Steiner continued to work full time as a collector for Ireland's orphans and destitute children. His final illness found him in Dublin's Mater Hospital, surrounded at his bedside by the Holy Faith nuns praying for him. His last words were to a Sister, directing her to find an orphanage collection in the pocket of his overcoat. It was mere weeks later that heroic Irishmen & Irishwoman fought the Easter Rebellion to force out the aliens.
✞ John Joseph Steiner is buried at the Sister's Cemetery on the grounds of the Holy Faith Convent in Glasnevin. His final resting place being in this small graveyard, reserved for the Sister's of the order, stands as testament to his importance to the Orphanage and the reverence in which he is held in by the Holy Faith Religious. Buried nearby are the cofounders of St. Brigid's, Margaret Aylward and Fr. John Gowan C. M. A section of his adopted homeland remains under alien occupation 100 years later.
Inscription
ihs
Pray For The
Soul Of
JOHN JOSEPH STEINER
Who Died 29th March 1916
Born At Liebenzell, Wurtemburg
In 1932
Came To Ireland In 1856
And Was For 58 Years
A Devoted Collector
Of St Brigid's Orphanage
R. I. P.
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