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Anti-Catholic Hostility in 1850s Maine & Prague's Marian Column: Kevin Schmiesing on This Week in Catholic History
How did a Jesuit missionary survive a brutal anti-Catholic tar-and-feathering to found Boston College, and why was Prague's famous Marian Column dismantled in 1918 and rebuilt a century later? On The Son Rise Morning Show, host Matt Swaim welcomes back Church historian Dr. Kevin Schmiesing to look at two major milestones in "This Week in Catholic History."
Schmiesing recounts the remarkable life of Fr. John Bapst, S.J. (1815–1887), a Swiss-born Jesuit who ministered to the Abenaki Native Americans and Irish and French immigrants in Maine. During the rise of the anti-Catholic…
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