Arnold Damen
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| birth_place = Leur, North Brabant
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1890|01|01|1815|03|20}}
| death_place = Omaha, Nebraska
| burial_place = Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis
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Arnold Damen, S.J. (1815–1890) was a Dutch Jesuit missionary who is noted for bringing Jesuit education to Chicago.
Biography
Damen was born in Leur, North Brabant (The Netherlands) on March 20, 1815, and joined the Jesuit missions in North America under Pierre-Jean De Smet.{{Cite encyclopedia|last=De Vries |first=William |title=Hollanders in the United States |encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia |volume=7 |location=New York |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |year=1910 |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07393b.htm}} He trained at St. Stanislaus Novitiate in Florissant, Missouri, and was ordained in 1844.{{Cite web|title=Arnold J. Damen, S.J. President of Loyola: 1870-1872 |url=https://www.luc.edu/giving/donorrecognition/givingsocieties/damensociety/arnoldjdamensj/ |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116211204/https://www.luc.edu/giving/donorrecognition/givingsocieties/damensociety/arnoldjdamensj/ |archive-date=November 16, 2017 |access-date=|website=luc.edu |publisher=Loyola University}} His first job was teaching at St. Louis University, but in 1847 he was appointed pastor of the college church of St. Francis Xavier in St. Louis. In 1857 he was sent to establish the first Jesuit presence in Chicago, where he founded St. Ignatius College Prep, as well as the institution that would become Loyola University.
He died at Creighton College in Omaha, Nebraska, on January 1, 1890.
He is the namesake of Damen Avenue in Chicago.{{Cite web |url=https://abc7chicago.com/7-on-the-streets-how-did-chicagos-get-their-names-chicago-street-damen-avenue/688976/ |title=7 on the Streets: Damen Avenue, Halsted Street, Ogden Avenue |first=Roz |last=Varon |publisher=WLS-TV |location=Chicago |date=2015-05-05 |access-date=2021-11-17}}
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Category:19th-century Dutch Jesuits
Category:Jesuit missionaries in the United States
Category:Saint Louis University faculty