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by bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Archbishop Ireland, Father Christopher Collins, Father Miscamble, Father Wilson Miscamble, Featured, Local News, Meaning of a Catholic University, Mother Seraphine Ireland, News, Owens Science Center, St. Catherine University, St. Thomas, The Meaning of a Catholic University Today, University of St. Thomas, UST | 0 |
In 1885, Archbishop John Ireland founded what would become the University of St. Thomas, an archdiocesan university in St. Paul. Twenty years later, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, then led by Archbishop Ireland’s sister, Mother Seraphine Ireland, established what today is St. Catherine University, just a mile south of St. Thomas.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Archbishop Ireland, Echoes of Catholic Minnesota, Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society, Featured, Irish, James McGolrick, News, temperance, Total Abstinence Society | 0 |
On March 17, 1873, the Irish of Minneapolis and surrounding areas gathered for Mass, filling the largest church in the city to overflowing. After hearing Father James McGolrick preach on the history of Ireland and the place of the Irish people in America, they poured out of Immaculate Conception to begin a St. Patrick’s Day parade through the city.
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