!!!Rudigier, Franz Joseph

b. Partenen (Vorarlberg), April 6, 1811, 
d. Linz (Upper Austria), Nov. 29, 1884, from 1853 bishop of Linz. 
Teacher of Emperor Franz Joseph and of Maximilian of Mexico; 1845 
director of the Frintaneum, an institute of higher education for 
priests in Vienna, initiated the construction of Linz Cathedral (he is 
buried in the lower church); following his pastoral letter on laws 
concerning schools, marriage and confession was sentenced to 14 days 
imprisonment in 1869, pardoned by the emperor one day later. Founded 
branches of his order in Upper Austria, the Volksverein (an 
association promoting Catholicism), the Catholic press association and 
several regional weekly papers. Beatification procedure started in 
1895.

!Literature
R. Zinnhobler (ed.), Die Bischoefe von Linz, 1985; P. 
Gradauer, H. Slapnicka and R. Zinnhobler, Bischof F. J. R., 1987; A. 
Nodes, Ein Kirchenmann in Konfrontation. R. J. R., master's thesis, 
Vienna 1998.



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