SCHILLING, CARL HALFDAN. - Barnabite, Servant of God, b. at Cristiania on 9 June 1835, d. at Mouscron (Belgium) on 2 Jan. 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), his fellow countryman and likewise a convert, he entered the Barnabite novitiate at Aubigny (France), and on 18 Dec. 1875 was ordained priest. Five years at Aubigny, seven in Italy as assistant master of the novices at Monza, and twenty at Mouscron mark the chapters of his industrious apostolate in the confessional and in the example of heroic virtues. During 1949 the apostolic process for his beatification was completed. The Civic Museum of Cristiania possesses some of his prize-winning paintings, among them The Beggar, his masterpiece, and several Norwegian landscapes. His cause of beatification was introduced on 22 Nov. 1946 (AAS, 39 [1947], pp. 235-37).