His priestly vocation emerged from this experience.

The conference called the €7,000 campaign 'an innovative communication bid' aiming to 'give rise to priestly vocation'.

His superiors there did not feel he had a priestly vocation and sent him home in 1795.

Upon completion of the six-year program, students still discerning a priestly vocation would be assigned to a major seminary.

This initial idea of a priestly vocation came to him because he felt particularly challenged by a poster hanging in his parish church that continued to attract his attention.