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Venerable Ignatius of St. Paul was born George Spencer in 1799.
When George was born, his father, the second Earl of Spencer, was Lord of the Admiralty. Young George was raised in a home the size of a palace located on the upscale 13,000-acre Althorp estate. (This was the site of Princess Diana’s burial in 1997.) He was schooled at Eton and Cambridge and became a priest of the Church of England, ordained in 1824. He was a committed priest, and he worked hard to help others.
However, he began to have doubts about the Church of England and started to pray very hard for guidance. He was attracted to the Catholic Church, and his initial thoughts frightened him. In 1827 he met several Catholic priests who encouraged him to pray and reflect and let the Holy Spirit guide him. George decided to convert to Catholicism, a decision that his family could not comprehend. Having rejected a life of immense wealth and comfort, he went to Rome and began studies in the English College. In 1832 he was ordained a Catholic priest.
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