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In the year 1834 the Right Rev. Joseph Rosati of St. Louis, Missouri, called at the mother-house of the Sisters of St. Joseph at Lyons and asked Mother St. John Fontbonne, the superior, to send a colony of her daughters to America. Arrangements were soon perfected, and on 17 January, 1836, six sisters sailed from [...]
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FAIR HAVEN, CONN.—Fair Haven was till very recently a separate town, but now, it forms part of New Haven. Hew Haven is one of the most important cities in the State, as it is one of the handsomest cities in the whole country. The private residences are especially beautiful, and the streets are shaded with [...]
THE SISTER OF MERCY By Author Unknown She shares in the hopes of those who sow, In the gladness of those who reap; She smiles for the joys that the joyful know, And she weeps with those who weep. She prays for the living—she prays for the dead; She joins in the children’s fun; And [...]
“The Day We Celebrate”: Rev. Sylvester Malone at the Annual Banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, March 17, 1884 “The day we celebrate” comes to us but once a year, yet its influences have been felt by our race on every day of the year through which it has run. Going back fourteen [...]
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The whole course of Christianity from the first… is but one series of troubles and disorders. Every century is like every other, and to those who live in it seems worse than all times. The Church is ever ailing… Religion seems ever expiring, schisms dominant, the light of truth dim, its adherents scattered. The cause [...]
The Noble Reformer and Philanthropist Pius Ninth (The Brooklyn Eagle, November 29th, 1847) Although we have during the late year given a few passing notices to the character mentioned in the heading of this article—and to his moves in Italy—such a comparatively full description of the grounds on which rest his claims to public love [...]
At the time of his death, the Louisville Catholic Record described Father Leopold Bushart as “surely one of the great men of the Catholic Church in America.” He was successively President of five different colleges: St. Xavier, Cincinnati; St. Louis University; St. Stanislaus Seminary, Florissant, Missouri; St. Mary’s College, Kansas; and Marquette University, Milwaukee. Born [...]
Brother Stylien, F.S.C. (1808-1880) Born in France, in 1808, Brother Stylien (L.A. Lissignol, 1808-1880) entered the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools while still in his fifteenth year. He was received into the novitiate at Avignon in September, 1823. Two years later he began his teaching career in Marseilles, and five years afterward [...]
According to this anti-Catholic pamphlet issued in the 1920′s, they did. In the years following the Civil War, every time a wave of anti-Catholicism engulfed the United States (which it frequently did into the 1920′s), some person or group published a leafelt, booklet, even a book, claiming that the Vatican was to blame for the [...]
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 [...]
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