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2012-12-20T04:29:12-07:00

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Monsignor Bernard O’Reilly (1820-1907)

Last updated on: December 20, 2012 at 4:29 am By Pat McNamara

Historian, b. 20 Sept., 1820, in County Mayo, Ireland; d. in New York, U.S.A. 26 April, 1907. In early life he emigrated to Canada, where in 1836 he entered Laval University. He was ordained priest in Quebec, 12 Sept., 1843, and ministered in several parishes of that diocese. He was one of the heroic priests who attended the plague-stricken Irish emigrants in the typhus-sheds along the St. Lawrence after the “black ’47”. Later he entered the Society of Jesus and... Read more

2012-12-19T04:23:36-07:00

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Carmelites Celebrate Centennial in U.S., 1890

Last updated on: December 19, 2012 at 4:23 am By Pat McNamara

THE CARMELITE CENTENARY (The New York Times, October 16, 1890) Baltimore, October 15.— The Carmelite nuns today celebrated the centennial of the establishment of the Carmelite Order in this country. By special indulgences from Rome ponitifical high mass was celebrated in the chapel of the convent by Cardinal Gibbons. A large number of clergy and laity were present. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Charles Currier of Boston. The first monastery of the order in this country was established... Read more

2012-12-18T04:21:42-07:00

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Brooklyn’s German Catholics Celebrate Jubilee, 1891

Last updated on: December 18, 2012 at 4:21 am By Pat McNamara

HALF A CENTURY– Since the German Catholics Came to Brooklyn– The Fifty Years of the Foundation of the Colony to be Commemorated in Vicar General May’s Church (The Brooklyn Eagle, September 28, 1891, 2.) According to so excellent an authority as the Herold des Glaubens, there are 28,175 German Catholics in Bishop Loughlin’s diocese, ministered to by twenty-three priests. Local authorities consider this rather a low estimate. The Leader, for instance, puts the number down at 40,000, and the Catholic... Read more

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2012-12-17T03:22:56-07:00

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New York’s First Catholic Mayor: William Russell Grace (1832-1904)

Last updated on: December 17, 2012 at 3:22 am By Pat McNamara

Philanthropist and merchant, born at Cork, Ireland, 10 May, 1832; died at New York, 21 March, 1904. His father was originally from Queen’s County, where the Graces lived from the days of their ancestor, Raymond Le Gros, who went to Ireland with Strongbow; his mother, a Russell from Tipperary, was a convert to the Catholic Faith. James Grace, his father, went from Ireland to Peru in 1850, but not being successful there, returned to Ireland, while his son, William Russell,... Read more

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2012-12-16T06:38:02-07:00

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Funeral Mass for President Lincoln, Brooklyn, April 1865

Last updated on: December 16, 2012 at 6:38 am By Pat McNamara

THE PRESIDENT’S MURDER— UNIVERSAL GRIEF OF THE PEOPLE— MOURNING THROUGHOUT THE CITY— THE DAY IN THE CHURCHES (The Brooklyn Times, April 17, 1865) At Sts. Peter and Paul’s Yesterday That yesterday could have passed without proper notice by Father Malone of its solemnity in relation to the American people was of course impossible. That he would fittingly denounce this newest expression of rebellion the assassination of Abraham Lincoln we knew. That the members of his congregation would be stimulated by... Read more

Civil War

New York Catholics

2012-11-30T04:26:19-07:00

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Father Robert Fulton, S.J. (1826-1895), President of Boston College

Last updated on: November 30, 2012 at 4:26 am By Pat McNamara

Rev. James Robert Fulton (The New York Times, September 6, 1895) The Rev. James Robert Fulton, S.J., ex-President of Boston College, died yesterday at Santa Clara College, San Jose, Cal. The Rev. James Robert Fulton was born at Alexandria, Va., June 28, 1826. In his early youth he was a page in the United States Senate. He entered Georgetown College with the intention of preparing for West Point, but in 1843, at the age of seventeen, he decided to enter... Read more

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2012-11-29T04:10:05-07:00

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Bishop John Moore, St. Augustine, Florida (1834-1901)

Last updated on: November 29, 2012 at 4:10 am By Pat McNamara

MOORE, JOHN, R.C. Bishop, was born in Castletown-Delvin, County Westmeath, Ireland, June 24, 1834. In 1848 he emigrated to Charleston, S.C., where he began classical studies. He completed his classical course in the college of Combrée, in the department of Maine-et-Loire, France, 1851-1856, finishing his philosophical studies in the Gregorian University, Rome. He studied theology in the Urban College of the Propaganda, 1856-1860, taking the degree of D.D., and was ordained priest, April 9, 1860. He was appointed assistant priest... Read more

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Florida Catholics

2012-11-27T04:03:34-07:00

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The Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother

Last updated on: November 27, 2012 at 4:03 am By Pat McNamara

SISTERS OF THE SORROWFUL MOTHER (1889) The Congregation of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, also known as Sisters of Charity, under the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis Assisi, was founded in 1883, at Rome, by Mother Mary Frances Streitel, for the greater honor and glory of God, through the work of nursing and teaching. A few years after their establishment at Rome, two of the sisters were given papal permission to solicit alms in the United States.... Read more

Women Religious

2012-11-03T05:17:05-06:00

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The Jesuits in Hell’s Kitchen, 1900

Last updated on: November 3, 2012 at 5:17 am By Pat McNamara

THE WORK OF OUR MISSIONARIES. MISSION IN “HELL’S KITCHEN,” NEW YORK. A Letter from Father Stanton. ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE, FORDHAM, October 1899 REV. AND DEAR FATHER, P.X. You ask me for some account of our work during the mission season, and I am quite ready to comply with your wishes in this respect, but hardly know what bulk to give my roll of manuscript. You haven’t room for all we might offer for the readers of the LETTERS, so I... Read more

Jesuits

New York Catholics

2012-10-27T06:46:21-06:00

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Catholic Poetry

Last updated on: October 27, 2012 at 6:46 am By Pat McNamara

FATHER DAMIEN By John Bannister Tabb O God, the cleanest offering Of tainted earth below, Unblemished to thy feet we bring— “A leper white as snow!” Joyce Kilmer, ed., Dreams and Images: An Anthology of Catholic Poets (Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1917), 253. NOTE: Born to an affluent Virginia family, John Bannister Tabb (1845-1909) fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. After the war, he converted to Roman Catholicism and taught at a seminary in Maryland. In 1884,... Read more

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