SCHILLING, CARL HALFADAN. – Barnabite, Servant of God, b. in Kristiania on 9 June 1835, d. at Mouscron (Belgium) on 2 January 1907.
Converted from Lutheranism (1854) while attending painting courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, in 1868, under the guidance of Fr. P. Stub (author of widely circulated spiritual books and builder of the first Catholic church in Bergen, dedicated to St Paul), a fellow countryman and likewise a convert, he entered the novitiate of the Barnabites at Aubigny (France), and on 18 December 1875 was ordained priest. Five years at Aubigny, seven in Italy as vice-master of novices at Monza, twenty at Mouscron mark the chapters of his fruitful apostolate in the confessional and in the example of heroic virtue. During 1949 the apostolic process for his beatification was completed. The municipal museum of Kristiania holds some of his prize-winning paintings, among them The Beggar, his masterpiece, and several Norwegian landscapes. His cause of beatification was introduced on 22 November 1946 (AAS, 39 [1947], pp. 235-37).