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Missionary bishop : Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans / Patrick Foley ; with a foreword by Gilbert R. Cruz.
Van Pelt Library BX4705.O3385 F65 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foley, Patrick, 1933-
- Series:
- Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 118.
- Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Odin, Jean Marie, 1801-1870.
- Odin, Jean Marie.
- Catholic Church--Texas--Bishops--Biography.
- Catholic Church.
- Bishops--Texas--Biography.
- Bishops.
- History.
- Church history.
- Texas--Church history.
- Texas.
- Catholic Church--Texas--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- From France he came
- At the Barrens
- Missouri and Arkansas: a prelude to Texas
- Odin and the emerging American Vincentian presence
- The call to Texas
- Send us some priests
- On the shoulders of Odin
- A vice prefect apostolic arrives
- The mission beyond San Antonio
- He is to be vicar apostolic
- A missionary still
- The search for priests and nuns
- Back from Europe
- Bishop of Galveston
- Adieu, Texas
- New Orleans, the Civil War and Reconstruction, then home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781603448246
- 1603448241
- 9781603449946
- 1603449949
- OCLC:
- 818293537
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