On this day, May 28, 1825, the Right Rev. Celestin Rene Laurent Guynemer de la Hailandiere was ordained in Paris. He was 27 years old at the time. He followed Servant of God Simon Brute to Indiana and he served there until his resignation as the second Bishop of Vincennes in 1847.
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