Father Baker’s Numnies Project: A Success or Failure?

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A fire that cause significant damage to St. Patrick’s Church paved the way for Father Baker ’s most ambitious project: the construction of OLV National Shrine & Basilica. Father Nelson Baker with some of the many orphans he helped over his long tenure at Our Lady of Victory, funded in part by his seemingly inexplicable discovery of natural. To help finance the project , Father Baker turned to his beloved Association of Our Lady of Victory and its charitable members, now numbering in the thousands. The late Western New York priest, the revered Father Nelson Baker (1841–1936), devoted himself to Catholic works, including replacing a fire-damaged church with an. Father Nelson Baker , who served at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Buffalo after his ordination in 1876, was beloved in his lifetime for his charitable efforts for the poor,. Initially he became a successful businessman, but God had bigger plans for Nelson. God called him to open his generous heart to the poor and disadvantaged youth of. Father Nelson Baker ’s sixty-plus years in the priesthood were spent sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, giving hope to the destitute, and. A veteran of the Civil War, Father Baker became a highly successful businessman in Buffalo, N.Y., before entering Our Lady of Angels Seminary in 1869. So what lessons can. This essay focuses on Baker ’s work with orphans and wayward boys, emphasizing how Baker advanced the institutional approach in caring for orphans at a time when other. In thanksgiving to his patroness for all her help, Father Baker built OLV National Shrine & Basilica, which was consecrated and named a minor basilica in 1926. In January 1987, the Buffalo Diocese began the cause for Father Baker’s canonization, and on October 7, 1988, he was named a Servant of God. Father Baker was declared.