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June 2013

June 05, 2013
The son of San Francisco’s police chief, George O’Brien was the grandson of Irish immigrants...
June 04, 2013
The son of an Irish immigrant from Limerick, William King Baggot was born in St....
June 03, 2013
Nita Naldi was born Mary Nonna Dooley on East 114th Street in Harlem in what...
June 02, 2013
This week McNamara's Blog features the Catholic presence in American film during the silent and early...
June 01, 2013
Military officer, b. in Dungannon County Tyrone, Ireland, 12 Dec., 1810; d. at Ottumwa, Iowa,...

May 2013

May 31, 2013
Journalist and poet, b. 1 Jan., 1839, at Baltimore, Maryland; d. 15 Jan., 1908 at...
May 30, 2013
Charles Ewing, b. at Lancaster, 6 March, 1835; d. at Washington, 20 June, 1883. Commencing...
May 29, 2013
The poet-priest of the South, born at Norfolk, Virginia, 15 August, 1839; died at Louisville,...
May 28, 2013
Born at Kingston, Ohio, 6 Sept., 1819; died near Redondo, California 11 March, 1898. The...
May 27, 2013
Soldier and Catholic convert. Born 8 January, 1821, at Edgefield, South Carolina, U.S.A.; died at...
May 26, 2013
Born Mary Agnes Grace in 1812, Sister Mary Gonzaga, S.C., was in charge of the...
May 25, 2013
Henry Francis Brownson was born at Canton, Mass., August 7 1835. His father was the...
May 24, 2013
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY PRESENTS THE FLAG TO ST. PETER'S SUNDAY SCHOOL, BROOKLYN. A...

April 2013

April 03, 2013
In the year 1834 the Right Rev. Joseph Rosati of St. Louis, Missouri, called at...
April 01, 2013
FAIR HAVEN, CONN.—Fair Haven was till very recently a separate town, but now, it forms...

March 2013

March 21, 2013
THE SISTER OF MERCY By Author Unknown  She shares in the hopes of those who...
March 16, 2013
“The Day We Celebrate”: Rev. Sylvester Malone at the Annual Banquet of the Friendly Sons...
March 15, 2013
The whole course of Christianity from the first… is but one series of troubles and...
March 14, 2013
The Noble Reformer and Philanthropist Pius Ninth (The Brooklyn Eagle, November 29th, 1847) Although we...
March 13, 2013
At the time of his death, the Louisville Catholic Record  described Father Leopold Bushart as...

February 2013

February 19, 2013
Brother Stylien, F.S.C. (1808-1880) Born in France, in 1808, Brother Stylien (L.A. Lissignol, 1808-1880) entered...
February 18, 2013
According to this anti-Catholic pamphlet issued in the 1920's, they did. In the years following...
February 15, 2013
MR. ADAMS’ CONVERSION-- The ex-Epsicopalian Clergyman Tells How He was Led to Embrace Catholicism (The...
February 14, 2013
SERVANTS OF RELIEF FOR INCURABLE CANCER (1899) “I am trying to serve the poor as...
February 13, 2013
OBSERVING ASH WEDNESDAY (The New York Times, February 28, 1884)  Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, and the...
February 11, 2013
When I got up this morning, my wife told me the news about the Pope...
February 10, 2013
Bishop John Carroll’s Eulogy on the Death of President Washington, February 22nd, 1800 When the...
February 09, 2013
RIGHT REV. JOSEPH ROSATI, First Bishop of St. Louis Joseph Rosati was born at Sora,...

January 2013

January 20, 2013
January 20 To become an ethical fact, to have moral worth, knowledge must pass into...
January 19, 2013
A GREAT SINGER DEAD. SISTER AGNES GUBERT, THE FAMOUS NUN, DIES IN BALTIMORE. (The New...
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