Missionary Bishop : Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans /

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In 1822, a young French missionary priest arrived in America, where he would devote the rest of his life to the mission field on behalf of the Catholic Church. Jean-Marie Odin served first in Missouri and Arkansas, then in 1840 moved to Texas, becoming the first Bishop of Galveston in 1847. He held...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foley, Patrick, 1933-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Odin, Jean Marie, > 1801-1870.
Catholic Church.
Église catholique > Histoire.
Église catholique > Évêques > Biographies.
Catholic Church > Texas > History.
Catholic Church > Texas > Bishops > Biography.
Bishops.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
Évêques > Texas > Biographies.
Bishops > Texas > Biography.
Texas.
Texas > Histoire religieuse.
Texas > Church history.
History.
Biographies.
Church history.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From France he came
  • At the Barrens
  • Missouri and Arkansas : a prelude to Texas
  • Odin and the emerging American Vincentian presence
  • The call to Texas
  • Send us some priests
  • On the shoulders of Odin
  • A vice prefect apostolic arrives
  • The mission beyond San Antonio
  • He is to be vicar apostolic
  • A missionary still
  • The search for priests and nuns
  • Back from Europe
  • Bishop of Galveston
  • Adieu, Texas
  • New Orleans, the Civil War and Reconstruction, then home.

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