Episode 25

Franciscan Father Leo Heinrichs came from Germany to minister to the German-speaking populations of New Jersey and then eventually Denver. One morning he covered Mass for another priest, and while distributing Communion, an anti-Catholic Italian immigrant shot him point blank and killed him.

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