February 2 is the anniversary of Amedee J. Viger.

Amedee Joseph Viger was born in Montreal, Canada in 1876. He entered the novitiate at Villanova, PA, in 1896, and was ordained by Bishop Prendergast in 1901.
He served first at Carthage, NY, and then at Villanova, where he became Master of Novices and Professed and professor of Moral Theology and Liturgy.

Father Viger was 39 when he died on February 2, 1915, in Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. He is buried in the Community Cemetery at Villanova.

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