Patrick Richard Heffron
Patrick Richard Heffron (June 1, 1860 – November 23, 1927) was the second Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona, in Winona, Minnesota.[1]
He was born in New York City. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for what is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. On March 4, 1910, Pope Pius X appointed him Bishop of the Winona Diocese; he died in 1927 while still bishop.[2]
On the morning of 27 August 1915, he was shot twice while celebrating private mass by a disgruntled priest named Laurence M. Lesches, who after many reassignments had demanded a parish of his own and had been turned down because of his arrogant behavior and emotional instability.[3] Heffron survived, but the paranoid Lesches was committed to an insane asylum where he remained until his death in 1943.[4] This incident, which was followed by accidental deaths among some of Heffron's acquaintances, is the explanation given for the supposed haunting of Heffron Hall by Lesches.[5]
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- ↑ Michael Norman. The Nearly Departed. Minnesota Historical Society, 2009.
