The founder was born Peter Wirth on 15 October 1830 in Niederbreitbach, Germany, the youngest of four children.
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In 1928, however, Bishop James Aloysius Griffin of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, invited the Brothers to establish a community there.
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