St. John Neumann Statue

8" tall bisque porcelain statue.

John Nepomucene Neumann CSsR (March 28, 1811 – January 5, 1860) was a Catholic priest from Bohemia. He immigrated to the United States in 1836, where he was ordained and later joined the Redemptorist order and became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia (1852–1860). He is to date the only male U.S. citizen to be canonized. While Bishop of Philadelphia, Neumann founded the first Catholic diocesan school system in the United States.