Word: flaget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bardstown knew their legendary history: in 1798, while living in Havana, Father Benedict Joseph Flaget, future Bishop of Bardstown, befriended France's exiled Prince Louis Philippe. Years later, when Louis Philippe became King of France, he remembered the kindness, sent the paintings to the bishop for Bardstown's new cathedral...
...confused with 16 Popes of that name) first refused, then accepted, the bishopric of Sasima. Later he took over his father's duties as Bishop of Nazianzus in Asia Minor, but he never accepted formal installation in that see. In 1808 the Pope appointed Benedict Flaget, a refugee from the French Revolution, as Bishop of Bardstown, Ky. Flaget declined, went to Europe for advice, was greeted by a friend with the words: "My lord, you should be in your diocese." Flaget came back to the US., accepted the post...