How the Jesuits settled in New York : a documentary account / by Thomas C. Hennessy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hennessy, Thomas C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fordham University--History.

Fordham University.

Jesuits.

History.

Jesuits--New York (State)--New York--History.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[Bronx, NY] : Something More Publications : distributed by Fordham University Press, [2003]

Summary:

This unique book is not only an essential contribution to the history of the Society of jesus in New York and in the United States; it is also a fascinating social history of the early years of Catholic institutional life in America. Drawing for the first time on letters, memoirs, and other key documents from the Fordham archives, Hennessy opens a window on 19th century Catholic New York, with profiles of three leading Jesuit educators--Clement Boulanger, August Thebaud, and John Larkin--and the institutions they built at St. John's College, Fordham and the college and parish of St. Francis Xavier in Manhattan. He also provides concise biographical profiles of the pioneering Jesuit priests and brothers buried in the Fordham Cemetery.

Contents:

Part I How the French Jesuits Came to Settle "Near New York"

Chapter 1 Rev. Clement Boulanger, S.J. 2

Chapter 2 Fr. Minister's Diary, St. Mary's College, KY 5

Chapter 3 Fr. Boulanger's Correspondence, 1845-1847 12

Part II St. John's College, Fordham

Chapter 4 Rev. August Thebaud, S.J. 48

Chapter 5 Fr. Minister's Diary, St. John's College 52

Chapter 6 The Annual Letters to Rome 65

Part III The College and Parish of St. Francis Xavier

Chapter 7 Rev. John Larkin, S.J. 113

Chapter 8 The Early Years 117

Chapter 9 The Annual Letters to Rome 122

Part IV The Fordham Cemetery: New York and Beyond

Chapter 10 The Cemetery History 155

Chapter 11 What Documents Can Tell Us 161

Chapter 12 Biographical Profiles 169

Appendix I The Liber Defunctorum on Moving the Cemetery 259

Appendix II The Honored Dead 264

Appendix III Martyrs of Charity 269

Appendix IV Fr. Mulledy's Last Days 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index.

ISBN:

0962288977

OCLC:

60516731