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Father Nelson H. Baker had been dead for years and the campaign to make him a saint hadn’t yet begun. But the orphanage Baker made famous in Lackawanna would be Knickerbocker’s new home. Father baker composed many spiritual treatises for the nuns at cambrai, and he also translated mystic works into english for the convent. Because the boy’s mother had prayed to the Virgin Mary and Father Baker , she credited them with a miracle (Koerner 2005, 45–46), rather than acknowledging that her son’s condition was not as bad as it had appeared and that his body’s own natural healing mechanisms were activated. For many years, Father Baker had dreamed of a fitting tribute to his patroness, Our Lady of Victory. His parish had grown, and the church was unable to hold the thousands who flocked to his Masses. Each time he thought he could begin, some emergency arose or a new building project took precedence, and an expansion of the existing church was. At the age of 21, when he heard that they were asking people to enlist and serve in the Civil War, Baker volunteered to go. Father David LiPuma says Baker , as part of New York’s 74th Infantry. His “City” expanding quickly, Father Baker ’ s body began to slow down, but the humble priest still had a few things left on his “to do” list! One of them – his biggest dream yet – had been in his mind since his pilgrimage to Europe when he was in the seminary. Archdiocese of los angeles ca at least 23 accusers.