Archbishop Patrick John Ryan His Life and Times


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Patrick John Ryan was a Roman Catholic priest, bishop and archbishop in America in very turbulent and challenging times. He experienced the mass influx of European immigrants, anti-foreigner and anti-Catholic prejudice, the American Civil War and efforts to serve the needs of the African Americans and Native Americans. Ireland prepared him for the life he chose to lead. He encountered religious discrimination and the penal-law mentality and he witnessed the Great Famine. Influenced by the accomplishments of Daniel O'Connell, he began to develop his skills as an orator for which he was to gain a world-wide reputation.







The Episcopal Silver Jubilee of the Most Reverend Patrick John Ryan, D.D., LL. D., Archbishop of Philadelphia


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Excerpt from The Episcopal Silver Jubilee of the Most Reverend Patrick John Ryan, D.D., LL. D., Archbishop of Philadelphia: In Three Parts And hence, it happened that, during Easter week of 1897, the eyes of the Faithful throughout this country, as well as abroad, were turned toward the City of Brotherly Love, whose Catholic inhabitants and citizens generally, irrespective of creed, were enthusiastically engaged in the appropriate Observance of the joyful event. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




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The Irish in America


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This book covers immigrants in the area of origin, on the journey, and at the destination. The work is divided into four sections - bibliography, manuscript collections, government manuscripts and publications, and a statistical overview. It is based on a review of all extant books and journal articles (including theses and dissertations) and a ten-year US wide search for manuscript collections held by research libraries, archdiocesan centres, and other depositories; for government manuscripts and published documents; and for statistical sources at origin and destination.







The Catholic Encyclopedia


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