Famous 19th Century Singer Becomes Nun in West Virginia
A GREAT SINGER DEAD. SISTER AGNES GUBERT, THE FAMOUS NUN, DIES IN BALTIMORE. (The New York Times, August 9, 1882). PITTSBURG, Penn., Aug. 8– Sister Agnes Gubert, probably the most noted teacher of...
View ArticleQuote of the Day, from Bishop John Lancaster Spalding (1840-1916)
January 20 To become an ethical fact, to have moral worth, knowledge must pass into action. When scholars become doers, the new order will begin. Minnie R. Cowan, ed., The Spalding Year-Book:...
View ArticleAmerica’s First Italian Bishop: Joseph Rosati, C.M. (1789-1843)
RIGHT REV. JOSEPH ROSATI, First Bishop of St. Louis Joseph Rosati was born at Sora, in Italy, January 30, 1789, of a respectable and pious family. After his studies he entered the novitiate of the...
View ArticleFirst American Bishop Eulogizes President Washington, 1800
Bishop John Carroll’s Eulogy on the Death of President Washington, February 22nd, 1800 When the death of men distinguished by superior talents, high endowments, and eminent virtues to their country,...
View ArticleA Momentous Day in Church History– To Say the Least
When I got up this morning, my wife told me the news about the Pope resigning. It was on New York 1. “That’s ridiculous,” I said, “what do they know about the Pope?’ Well, it turns out they were right....
View ArticleAsh Wednesday, New York, 1884
OBSERVING ASH WEDNESDAY (The New York Times, February 28, 1884) Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, and the attendance at all the Catholic Churches in the morning was very large. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral...
View ArticleNathaniel Hawthorne’s Daughter Becomes Nun, 1899
SERVANTS OF RELIEF FOR INCURABLE CANCER (1899) “I am trying to serve the poor as a servant. I wish to serve the cancerous poor because they are avoided more than any other class of sufferers; and I...
View ArticleFormer Episcopal Priest Discusses His Conversion to Catholicism, 1897
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...
View ArticleDid the Jesuits Assassinate Lincoln?
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...
View ArticleThe Christian Brothers Come to the United States, 1848
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...
View ArticleFather Leopold Bushart, S.J. (1838-1909)
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...
View ArticleThe Brooklyn Eagle Weighs In On the New Pope, 1847
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...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
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...
View ArticleFriendly Sons of St. Patrick Speech, Brooklyn, 1884
“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...
View ArticleCatholic Poetry
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...
View ArticleJesuit Parish Mission at St. Francis of Assisi Church, Fair Haven, CT, August...
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...
View ArticleThe Sisters of St. Joseph, Carondolet, Missouri
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...
View ArticleJames Longstreet (1821-1904): Confederate General, Catholic Convert
Soldier and Catholic convert. Born 8 January, 1821, at Edgefield, South Carolina, U.S.A.; died at Gainesville, Georgia, 2 January, 1904. In 1831 he moved to Alabama with his parents, and was thence...
View ArticleThe Convert Brothers: General and Bishop Rosecrans
Born at Kingston, Ohio, 6 Sept., 1819; died near Redondo, California 11 March, 1898. The family came originally from Holland and settled in Pennsylvania, moving thence to Ohio.His mother was a daughter...
View ArticleThe Poet of the Confederacy: Father Abram J. Ryan (1839-1886)
The poet-priest of the South, born at Norfolk, Virginia, 15 August, 1839; died at Louisville, Kentucky, 22 April, 1886. He inherited from his parents, in its most poetic and religious form, the strange...
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