Former Episcopal Priest Discusses His Conversion to Catholicism, 1897

Henry Austin Adams

MR. ADAMS’ CONVERSION– The ex-Epsicopalian Clergyman Tells How He was Led to Embrace Catholicism (The Brooklyn Eagle, February 22, 1897, 2.) Henry Austin Adams, M.A., told the story of his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church before a large audience in the Amphion theater last evening. The lecture was accompanied with a vocal and musical [...]

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Daughter Becomes Nun, 1899

Mother Rise

SERVANTS OF RELIEF FOR INCURABLE CANCER (1899) “I am trying to serve the poor as a servant. I wish to serve the cancerous poor because they are avoided more than any other class of sufferers; and I wish to go them as a poor creature myself, though powerful to help through the open-handed gifts of [...]

Father Augustine F. Hewit, C.S.P. (1820-1897)

Hewit

Father Hewit is Dead. The Head of the Paulists Passes Away at the Monastery in this City. Sketch of His Life Work. Associated with Other Denominations Before He Became a Roman Catholic— The Church that Stands as His Monument. (The New York Times, July 4, 1897) The Very Rev. Dr. Augustine F. Hewit, Superior of [...]