Charles of Mount Argus

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Blessed Charles of Mount Argus was a well known Passionist priest in 19th Century Ireland. He was born John Andrew Houben on the 11th December 1821 in the village of Munstergeleen in Holland. He joined the Passionists in 1845 at Ere in Belgium. Ordained in 1850, he was sent to England in 1852 and was never to see the nation of his birth again. In 1857 he was sent to the newly founded Mount Argus monastery in Dublin where he became popular confessor and was renowned as healer. He spent most of the rest of his life at Mount Argus where he died on the 5th January 1893. Charles was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988 and will be canonised on 3rd June 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI.

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