AUTHENTIC SKETCHES OF LIVING CATHOLIC AUTHORS One of the most prolific of Catholic American writers is Mr. L.W. Reilly, who for twenty years has been a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines. He was born in New York City in December, 1853, and was baptized in St. Peter’s Church, in Barclay Street. He was educated partly in the academy of the Christian Brothers, in West Thirty-second Street, and partly in the College of St. Francis Xavier, in West Sixteenth Street.... Read more
Murillo’s Immaculate Conception By David Gray Whence is the spell—O fair and free from guile, Thou with the young moon shod!—That binds my brain? Is thine that orb of fable which did wane, Darkening o’er sad Ortygia’s templed isle— Beautiful Artemis, hid from earth awhile, And on the pale monk’s vigil risen again, A wonder in the starry sky of Spain? Comes the Myth back, Madonna, in thy smile? Yea! Thou dost teach that the Divine may be The same,... Read more
Carroll, David Williamson, chancery judge, was born in Baltimore, Md., March 11, 1816, the third child and oldest son of William and Henrietta Carroll. His mother was a daughter of David Williamson, a leading Baltimore merchant. Judge Carroll is a lineal descendant of Daniel Carroll, who emigrated from Ireland to the American colonies in 1700, and settled at Upper Marlboro, Prince George County, Md. His son, Daniel Carroll, the great-grandfather... Read more
In 1650 the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph was founded in the City of Puy, France, by a zealous missionary of the Society of Jesus, the Reverend John Paul Médaille. According to the Rules and Constitutions, the Sisters of Saint Joseph are instructed to devote themselves to all works of mercy and charity, by which the glory of God and the welfare of neighbor may be promoted. As... Read more
FATHER DESHON AT REST. Last Rites Over Remains of Paulist Founder. Archbishops Farley and Ryan and Many Priests Participate. Body in State Viewed by 20,000. The New York Times, January 3, 1904 The body of Father George Deshon, the last of the five founders of the Paulist Order, and for the last six years its Superior General, was laid to rest yesterday in the crypt which he himself had designed, under the south tower of the Church of St. Paul... Read more
New York, 30th March, 1805. REV. AND DEAR SIR, My heart offers you the tribute of its lively gratitude for your kind and charitable interest in its sorrows when I was oppressed with doubts and fears, and hastens, after the completion of its happiness, to inform you, that, through the boundless goodness of God, and aided by your very satisfactory counsels, my soul offered all its hesitations and reluctances a sacrifice to God, and on the 14th of March was... Read more
The son of a Jewish convert, Ignatius Lissner was born in the Alsace region of France. At age twenty-one, he joined the Society of African Missions, known as the “White Fathers” (for the habits they wore), a French missionary order founded in 1856. He was ordained a priest in Lyons in 1891. (Three of his siblings followed him into the religious life.) After ten years in Africa, Father Lissner was sent to America to promote the missions and raise funds.... Read more
Having established their first mission in Michigan in 1877, the Dominican Sisters of the Second Street Convent in New York City sent a second small band of sisters there the ensuing year, and as the first mission was in the northern section of the state– at Traverse City– the second was in the southern section, at Adrian, where sisters at once began their labors in educational work in St. Mary’s School, and in the folowing year, 1879, augmented by additional... Read more
But another event of considerable importance took place during the presidency of Father Tellier, an event which is of more interest to the average college student the struggles of ambitious journalists. We refer to the organization of the college baseball team. It was the first step toward an organized athletic association, and for many years the only field of athletics in which Fordham was represented. Cricket and “rounders” had been favorite pastimes, but as baseball grew in public favor, the... Read more
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