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June 2011

June 30, 2011
A beautiful soul was Captain Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff. graduated in 1859, who fell at the...
June 28, 2011
This week's Patheos column is the first of a two-part series on Blessed John Henry...
June 26, 2011
Parish procession, St. Michael, East New York, Brooklyn, 1905CORPUS CHRISTI. The Feast Celebrated by the...
June 25, 2011
Growing up in County Carlow, Ireland, young Myles Keogh’s favorite book was Charles O’Malley, The...
June 24, 2011
By all accounts, Sarah Anne O’Brien (1834-1920) was a formidable character. Raised in comfort, she...
June 23, 2011
Although Notre Dame’s sports teams are known as the “Fighting Irish,” the school was actually...
June 21, 2011
This week's Patheos column focuses on the Seton family, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and her...
June 20, 2011
The following excerpt from the history of Fordham University (then known as St. John's College)...
June 19, 2011
New York is always reinventing itself, and nowhere is this more true than in Brooklyn’s...
June 18, 2011
E.F. PRENDERGAST, PRELATE, DIES AT 74Archbishop of Philadelphia Succumbs to Diabetes After Three Months’ Illness.TALLEST...
June 17, 2011
Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren was born in Gallipolis, Ohio. She is the only daughter of...
June 15, 2011
CRANE, John, merchant, was born in Perry county, Ohio., Feb. 10, 1840, son of Thomas...
June 14, 2011
June 14, 2011
This week's Patheos column features Bishop Francis X. Ford, M.M. (1892-1952), a Maryknoll missionary who...
June 13, 2011
Anthony Fenoughty and his wife, Catherine McAndrews, emigrated from County Mayo, Ireland, in 1817. They...
June 12, 2011
The First MassBy “J.B.S.” She kneels in the aisle, the mother, Head high, tho’ her...
June 11, 2011
NORTHROP, Henry Pinckney, fourth Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston, was born in Charleston, S. C.,...
June 10, 2011
June 10, 2011
A lawyer by profession, the first woman to be appointed Assistant District Attorney in Kings...
June 06, 2011
THE REV. FATHER NEVINS DEADBrought up for the Ministry of the Episcopal Church,In Early Life...
June 04, 2011
 IT IS NOT BECAUSE OF RELIGION.The United States in its Declaration of Independence and in...
June 03, 2011
John S. Foley, Right Reverend Bishop of Detroit Diocese, son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Murphy)...
June 02, 2011
 WAS KNOWN THE WORLD OVER. Among His Achievements Were a Number of Cathedrals and Several...
June 01, 2011
This week's Patheos column features the role that women religious played as hospital nurses and...
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