Joseph Schrembs was born in Wutzlhofen in the Kingdom of Bavaria (present day Germany), on March 12, 1866.

[1] After completing his classical course at St. Vincent's at age sixteen, Joseph Schrembs taught at the parochial school of St. Martin's Parish[2] until 1884.

In 1895, he was transferred to serve as pastor at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish[4] in West Bay City, Michigan.

While on a tour of Europe in 1902, Father Schrembs purchased a grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, which he donated to the parish.

[3] Schrembs requested the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota send nuns to the Toledo area to work with the children of the Polish immigrants.

He characterized Republican President Calvin Coolidge as "a chieftain whose record of faithful public service, and whose personality, untarnished and untainted by the pollution of political corruption, will fill the heart of America with the new hope of a second spring.

Christine, a 13 year-old girl who died for her faith around 300 AD, was moved from the Roman catacombs to St. John's Cathedral in Cleveland.

[13][14] Schrembs promoted the cause for canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century Native American woman from what is today Upstate New York who converted to Catholicism.

[19] In 1923, speaking to a meeting of the National Council of Catholic Women in Washington, D.C., Schrembs criticized the U.S. Government for spending millions of dollars trying to enforce Prohibition, the ban on alcoholic beverages in the United States.

Schrembs tried to temper his remarks by claiming that he had "...the utmost respect for the Jewish race" and that many "right-minded Jews" also opposed these threats to public morality.

[21] When fan dancer Sally Rand rode in Cleveland's St. Patrick's Day parade in 1937 next to a float dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Schrembs declared, "I am deeply humiliated and ashamed...[Rand's] inclusion does not represent the mind of the great Irish people.

There is no doubt that Mussolini saved Italy from communism and has made this one of the front rank countries of Europe.