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Born in Germany, Crispin moved to America when he was eighteen. He
worked as a tinsmith in Rochester, New York, before joining the Capuchin Order at age twenty six. Over the course of the years, he served mainly as cook, mostly at Mt. Calvary and St. Francis in Milwaukee. Crispin was especially conscientious when it came to poverty, probably to an extreme, which affected not only himself but the other friars, as well. Despite his own shortcomings, there was none more ready than Crispin to excuse the faults and shortcomings of others, and no one ever saw him angry or heard him be judgmental. His spirit of prayer was as unflagging as it
was devout.
In the early 1890's, at St. Bonaventure’s in Detroit, one of the lay brother novices was in the tailorshop with Br. Sebastian Landmesser, the senior brother of the community. They had been talking about the saints of the Order when the novice asked: “Have we any saintly brothers in our Province?” Sebastian replied, “If we have any saints, then surely Br. Crispin is one.”
Born in Germany, Crispin moved to America when he was eighteen. He
worked as a tinsmith in Rochester, New York, before joining the Capuchin Order at age twenty six. Over the course of the years, he served mainly as cook, mostly at Mt. Calvary and St. Francis in Milwaukee. Crispin was especially conscientious when it came to poverty, probably to an extreme, which affected not only himself but the other friars, as well. Despite his own shortcomings, there was none more ready than Crispin to excuse the faults and shortcomings of others, and no one ever saw him angry or heard him be judgmental. His spirit of prayer was as unflagging as it
was devout.
In the early 1890's, at St. Bonaventure’s in Detroit, one of the lay brother novices was in the tailorshop with Br. Sebastian Landmesser, the senior brother of the community. They had been talking about the saints of the Order when the novice asked: “Have we any saintly brothers in our Province?” Sebastian replied, “If we have any saints, then surely Br. Crispin is one.”
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Born in Germany, Crispin moved to America when he was eighteen. He
worked as a tinsmith in Rochester, New York, before joining the Capuchin Order at age twenty six. Over the course of the years, he served mainly as cook, mostly at Mt. Calvary and St. Francis in Milwaukee. Crispin was especially conscientious when it came to poverty, probably to an extreme, which affected not only himself but the other friars, as well. Despite his own shortcomings, there was none more ready than Crispin to excuse the faults and shortcomings of others, and no one ever saw him angry or heard him be judgmental. His spirit of prayer was as unflagging as it
was devout.
In the early 1890's, at St. Bonaventure’s in Detroit, one of the lay brother novices was in the tailorshop with Br. Sebastian Landmesser, the senior brother of the community. They had been talking about the saints of the Order when the novice asked: “Have we any saintly brothers in our Province?” Sebastian replied, “If we have any saints, then surely Br. Crispin is one.”
Born in Germany, Crispin moved to America when he was eighteen. He
worked as a tinsmith in Rochester, New York, before joining the Capuchin Order at age twenty six. Over the course of the years, he served mainly as cook, mostly at Mt. Calvary and St. Francis in Milwaukee. Crispin was especially conscientious when it came to poverty, probably to an extreme, which affected not only himself but the other friars, as well. Despite his own shortcomings, there was none more ready than Crispin to excuse the faults and shortcomings of others, and no one ever saw him angry or heard him be judgmental. His spirit of prayer was as unflagging as it
was devout.
In the early 1890's, at St. Bonaventure’s in Detroit, one of the lay brother novices was in the tailorshop with Br. Sebastian Landmesser, the senior brother of the community. They had been talking about the saints of the Order when the novice asked: “Have we any saintly brothers in our Province?” Sebastian replied, “If we have any saints, then surely Br. Crispin is one.”
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Br. Crispin was a member of the Order of Franciscan Minor Capuchin. He was a Capuchin for 40 years.
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