Franz Ehrle


Franz Ehrle, S.J., was a German Jesuit priest and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Archivist of the Secret Archives of the Vatican, in the course of which he became a leading agent in the revival of Thomism in the teachings of the Catholic Church.

He was born in Isny im Allgu in the Kingdom of Wrttemberg, the son of Franz Ehrle, a physician, and Berta von Frlich. He was educated at the Jesuit school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch. He joined the Society of Jesus onSeptember 1861. After completing the two years of his novitiate program of formation at Groheim, Hohenzollern, he followed the course of humanities at the College of Friedricksburg in Mnster, and later at the Jesuit college at Maria Laach Abbey, where he studied philosophy . For the regency phase of his training in the Society of Jesus, from 18681873 Ehrle was sent to teach at his old secondary school, Stella Matutina, where he taught English, French and philosophy. Because of an antiJesuit policy that followed the publication of the Kulturkampf in Germany, Ehrle, along with other German companions, had to carry on his studies abroad. He did his studies in theology at Ditton Hall, the Jesuit seminary in Liverpool, England .

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