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November 2011

November 01, 2011
This week's Patheos column features Edgar Allan Poe and his relationship with the Jesuits at...

October 2011

October 31, 2011
 The Very Rev. Leo de Saracena. The New York Times, November 5, 1897A dispatch from...
October 30, 2011
CONGREGATION OF THE BROTHERS OF THE HOLY INFANCY AND YOUTH OF JESUS Founded in the...
October 29, 2011
WIGGER. Winand Michael, third Roman Catholic bishop of Newark, was born in New York City,...
October 28, 2011
Some Exemplary Women of MontanaThey were not born nor reared up in Montana, but they...
October 27, 2011
FATHER EUGENE J. DONNELLY, A. B., A. M. It is with pleasure that we recount...
October 26, 2011
In May, 1876, when the Kulturkampf drove their community from the Duchy of Baden, Mother...
October 25, 2011
This week's Patheos column focuses on Venerable Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853), the only layperson buried in...
October 24, 2011
CATHOLIC OFFICERS IN THE ARMY AND THE NAVY.CAPTAIN JOHN E. McMAHON, U.S.A. Captain McMahon is...
October 23, 2011
MAGDALENE IN THE DESERTBy Aubrey de Vere SAY, who that woman kneeling soleAmid yon desert...
October 19, 2011
SISTERS SERVANTS OF MARYIntroduced into the United States, 1892 THIS branch, or offshoot, of the...
October 18, 2011
This week's column at Patheos focuses on the work of the French Jesuit missionaries in...
October 17, 2011
Rev. EDWARD A. TERRY, LL.D. Rev. Edward A. Terry, LL.D., was born in Ardmore, Ireland,...
October 16, 2011
JUBILEE OF AMERICAN FREEDOM.By Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864) Great Lord of creation, we owe it...
October 15, 2011
GALLAGHER, Nicholas Aloysius, third R.C. bishop of Galveston, Tex., was born at Temperanceville, Belmont co.,...
October 14, 2011
ANNA ELIZABETH BUCHANAN is known as a writer of magazine articles and short stories of...
October 13, 2011
The subject of this sketch was born in the diocese of St. Die, France, June...
October 12, 2011
CLOISTER LIFE. To Begin for the Sisters of the Precious Blood. Their New Convent Will...
October 11, 2011
In honor of Columbus Day, this week's Patheos column features the founder of the Knights...
October 10, 2011
Christopher Columbus It was a very cold evening in the month of February. Mr. Long...
October 09, 2011
Marquette on the Shores of the MississippiBy John Jerome RooneyHere, in the midnight of the...
October 08, 2011
BELOVED “FATHER JOHN” DEAD. Rev. John McGuire was Rector of St. Mary’s Church for 33...
October 07, 2011
REPPLIER, Agnes, author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, 1859, daughter of John and...
October 06, 2011
Our Lady Of Loretto, Brooklyn, N.Y. — This was the fourth Italian church in Brooklyn...
October 05, 2011
“The individual must eagerly and earnestly perfect himself, yet this perfecting of self is not...
October 04, 2011
In honor of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, this week's Patheos column focuses...
October 03, 2011
FOLEY, Thomas, fifth R. C. bishop of Chicago, was born in Baltimore, Md., March 6,...

September 2011

September 29, 2011
 FRIDOLIN WILHELM.America has been aptly named the land of opportunity, for in no other country...
September 27, 2011
MISSION EXTRAORDINARY.Labors of Father Damen and the Jesuit Fathers at the Church of St. Vincent...
September 26, 2011
On December 7, 1947, Father Charles Eugene Bradley, CSP, died in New York at the...
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