Author: John Rose Greene HassardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D.
Author: John Rose Greene HassardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Dagger John
Author: John LougheryPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John’s College (now Fordham University), builder of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of parochial-school education, and American diplomat. As archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York in the 1840 and 1850s and the most famous Roman Catholic in America, Hughes defended Catholic institutions in a time of nativist bigotry and church burnings and worked tirelessly to help Irish Catholic immigrants find acceptance in their new homeland. His galvanizing and protecting work and pugnacious style earned him the epithet Dagger John. When the interests of his church and ethnic community were at stake, Hughes acted with purpose and clarity. In Dagger John, Loughery reveals Hughes’s life as it unfolded amid turbulent times for the religious and ethnic minority he represented. Hughes the public figure comes to the fore, illuminated by Loughery’s retelling of his interactions with, and responses to, every major figure of his era, including his critics (Walt Whitman, James Gordon Bennett, and Horace Greeley) and his admirers (Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln). Loughery peels back the layers of the public life of this complicated man, showing how he reveled in the controversies he provoked and believed he had lived to see many of his goals achieved until his dreams came crashing down during the Draft Riots of 1863 when violence set Manhattan ablaze. To know "Dagger" John Hughes is to understand the United States during a painful period of growth as the nation headed toward civil war. Dagger John’s successes and failures, his public relationships and private trials, and his legacy in the Irish Catholic community and beyond provide context and layers of detail for the larger history of a modern culture unfolding in his wake.
Life of the most Reverend John Hughes, first Archbishop of New York
Author: John R. G. HassardPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752560363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York
Author: John Rose Greene HassardPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333263317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Excerpt from Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York: With Extracts From His Private Correspondence The School question - Injudicious efforts of the Catholics to obtain a portion of the school fund - The Bishop enters the lists - Petition to the Board of Alder men - Debate before the Common Council - Memorial to the Legislature - The Secretary of State preposes a plan of school reform - The Bishop supports it - The question postponed-candidates for the Legislature pledged to op pose any change - The Bishop advises the Catholics to nominate an indepen dent ticket - Mr. Maclay's school-bill passed - The Bishop's house attacked by a mob - Establishment of Catholic schools - St. John's College opened. 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.
Biographical Sketch of the Most Rev. John Hughes, D. D. Archbishop of New York
Author: Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York
Author: John Rose Greene HassardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Dictionary of Early American Philosophers
Author: John R. ShookPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1843711826
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1249
Book Description
The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.
The Life of James Roosevelt Bayley, First Bishop of Newark and Eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, 1814-1877
Author: Sister Hildegarde YeagerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Challenges on the Emmaus Road
Author: T. Felder DornPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643362968
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
While slavery and secession divided the Union during the American Civil War, they also severed the Northern and Southern dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In Challenges on the Emmaus Road, T. Felder Dorn focuses on the way Northern and Southern Episcopal bishops confronted and responded to the issues and events of their turbulent times. Prior to the Civil War, Southern bishops were industrious in evangelizing among enslaved African Americans, but at the same time they supported the legal and social aspects of the "peculiar institution." Southern and Northern bishops parted company over the institution of slavery, not over the place of blacks in the Episcopal Church. As Southern states left the Union, Southern dioceses separated from the Episcopal Church in the United States. The book's title was inspired by the Gospel of Luke 24:13-35 in which the resurrected Jesus Christ walked unrecognized with his disciples and discussed the events of his own crucifixion and disappearance from his tomb. Dorn perceives that scriptural episode as a metaphor for the responses of Episcopal bishops to the events of the Civil War era. Dorn carefully summarizes the debates within the church and in secular society surrounding the important topics of the era. In doing so, he lays the groundwork for his own interpretations of church history and also provides authentic data for other church scholars to investigate such topics as faith and doctrine, evangelism, and the administrative history of one of the most important institutions in America. Dorn devotes the final chapters to the postwar reunification of the Episcopal Church and Southern bishops' involvement in establishing the Commission on Freedmen to offer help with the educational and spiritual needs of the recently emancipated slaves.
Author: John Hughes