The Priesthoods and Apostasies of Pierce Connelly
Title | The Priesthoods and Apostasies of Pierce Connelly PDF eBook |
Author | Denis G. Paz |
Publisher | Edwin Mellen Press |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Religion |
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A biography of Pierce Connelly (1804-1883), whose life illustrated various 19th-century themes of what the author calls Anglo-American religious warfare, most notably the role played by several apostate priests, but primarily Connelly, in Victorian spiritual warfare.
First Chaplain of the Confederacy
Title | First Chaplain of the Confederacy PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Bentley Jeffrey |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2020-10-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807174009 |
Darius Hubert (1823‒1893), a French-born Jesuit, made his home in Louisiana in the 1840s and served churches and schools in Grand Coteau, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. In 1861, he pronounced a blessing at the Louisiana Secession Convention and became the first chaplain of any denomination appointed to Confederate service. Hubert served with the First Louisiana Infantry in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia for the entirety of the war, afterward returning to New Orleans, where he continued his ministry among veterans as a trusted pastor and comrade. One of just three full-time Catholic chaplains in Lee’s army, only Hubert returned permanently to the South after surrender. In postwar New Orleans, he was unanimously elected chaplain of the veterans of the eastern campaign and became well-known for his eloquent public prayers at memorial events, funerals of prominent figures such as Jefferson Davis, and dedications of Confederate monuments. In this first-ever biography of Hubert, Katherine Bentley Jeffrey offers a far-reaching account of his extraordinary life. Born in revolutionary France, Hubert entered the Society of Jesus as a young man and left his homeland with fellow Jesuits to join the New Orleans mission. In antebellum Louisiana, he interacted with slaves and free people of color, felt the effects of anti-Catholic and anti-Jesuit propaganda, experienced disputes and dysfunction with the trustees of his Baton Rouge church, and survived a near-fatal encounter with Know-Nothing vigilantism. As a chaplain with the Army of Northern Virginia, Hubert witnessed harrowing battles and their equally traumatic aftermath in surgeons’ tents and hospitals. After the war, he was a spiritual director, friend, mentor, and intermediary in the fractious and politically divided Crescent City, where he both honored Confederate memory and promoted reconciliation and social harmony. Hubert’s complicated and tumultuous life is notable both for its connection to the most compelling events of the era and its illumination of the complex and unexpected ways religion intersected with politics, war, and war’s repercussions.
Catholics of Consequence
Title | Catholics of Consequence PDF eBook |
Author | Ciaran O'Neill |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2014-06-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191017469 |
For as far back as school registers can take us, the most prestigious education available to any Irish child was to be found outside Ireland. Catholics of Consequence traces, for the first time, the transnational education, careers, and lives of more than two thousand Irish boys and girls who attended Catholic schools in England, France, Belgium, and elsewhere in the second half of the nineteenth century. There was a long tradition of Irish Anglicans, Protestants, and Catholics sending their children abroad for the majority of their formative years. However, as the cultural nationalism of the Irish revival took root at the end of the nineteenth century, Irish Catholics who sent their children to school in Britain were accused of a pro-Britishness that crystallized into still recognisable terms of insult such as West Briton, Castle Catholic, Squireen, and Seoinin. This concept has an enduring resonance in Ireland, but very few publications have ever interrogated it. Catholics of Consequence endeavours to analyse the education and subsequent lives of the Irish children that received this type of transnational education. It also tells the story of elite education in Ireland, where schools such as Clongowes Wood College and Castleknock College were rooted in the continental Catholic tradition, but also looked to public schools in England as exemplars. Taken together the book tells the story of an Irish Catholic elite at once integrated and segregated within what was then the most powerful state in the world.
The priesthoods and apostasies of Pierce Connelly
Title | The priesthoods and apostasies of Pierce Connelly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1986 |
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ISBN | 9780889469921 |
A Nation of Beggars?
Title | A Nation of Beggars? PDF eBook |
Author | Donal A. Kerr |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780198207375 |
Professor Kerr's scholarly and incisive analysis charts the souring of relations between Church and State and the destruction of Lord John Russell's dream of bringing a golden age to Ireland.
Memory and Myth
Title | Memory and Myth PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Sachsman |
Publisher | Purdue University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781557534392 |
"Ain't nobody clean" : Glory! and the politics of black agency / W. Scott Poole -- Alex Haley's Roots : the fiction of fact / William E. Huntzicker -- A voice of the south : the transformation of Shelby Foote / David W. Bulla.
Saints and Sinners in Queen Victoria's Courts
Title | Saints and Sinners in Queen Victoria's Courts PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Zaniello |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2021-02-12 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1476680817 |
This chronicle of ten controversial mid-Victorian trials features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, and an ex-priest suing his ex-wife, a nun. Most of these trials--never before analyzed in depth--assailed a culture that frowned upon public displays of bad taste, revealing fault lines in what is traditionally seen as a moral and regimented society. The author examines religious scandals, embarrassments about shaky family trees, and even arguments about which architecture is most likely to convert people from one faith to another.