“To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals—that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.”

About John Lancaster Spalding

Educator • American

John Lancaster Spalding was a prominent American Catholic prelate, writer, and educator born in Lebanon, Kentucky. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Peoria from 1877 until his retirement in 1908. Spalding...