Lewis Thomas Wattson, SA, better known as Father Paul Wattson (January 16, 1863 - February 8, 1940), was an American priest who co-founded the

Society of the Atonement The Society of the Atonement, also known as the Friars and Sisters of the Atonement or Graymoor Friars and Sisters is a Franciscan religious congregation in the Catholic Church. The friars and sisters were founded in 1898 by Paul Wattson as a relig ...

and the Christian Unity Octave in The Episcopal Church. He was later received into the

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and is remembered as an advocate for

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. Wattson has been named a

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, the first stage of a candidate for canonization.

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Digital files on Wattson's ministry as an Episcopalian
from the

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1863 births 1940 deaths American Servants of God {{US-RC-clergy-stub