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Charles Journeycake and Indian University (Bacone College)
Charles Journeycake, Chief of the Delawares, a founding Trustee of Indian University, was born in1817. His mother, Sally Journeycake, converted Charles to Christianity; he was baptized in 1833. Charles began preaching to the Delawares and other Indian tribes of Kansas … Continue reading
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Captain John Smith’s New England
If anyone in American history has the honor of being called the discoverer of New England, it is Captain John Smith. That’s right—John Smith, one of the founders of Jamestown, the savior of the infant colony of the Virginia Company, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, genealogy, history, pilgrims, travel
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New England Missionaries and the American Indians
We have been broken up and moved six times. We have been despoiled of our property. We thought when we moved across Missouri River and had paid for our home in Kansas we were safe, but in a few years … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, new-england-missionaries
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Joseph Ratzinger and Providence
Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was a theologian, academic, writer, and historian of Christianity who believed in Providence, that God’s will is present throughout time and place. Providence is the theme of the Psalms, indeed the entirety of the Bible; … Continue reading
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Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker
Dorothy Day was a lay missionary. She was not a member of a religious order (although she did become a Benedictine oblate), rather she was a convert to Catholicism who completely embraced the religion to guide her everyday existence according … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, catholic, Christianity, faith, Great Commission, Love
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Fanny Allen (1784-1819): From Vermont to the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph
Fanny Allen’s commitment to the Great Commission was not flashy, the stuff of grand tales of perseverance, suffering, and martyrdom—more the everyday, the challenges to faith of family and friends, the renewed commitment time and again, the daily putting on … Continue reading
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Tagged catholic, Christianity, Great Commission, history, missionary, Religion, Vermont
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Ignatius of Loyola, Soldier for Christ
Ignatius of Loyola was a soldier for Navarre, Spain, who became a soldier for Christ. Recovering from battle wounds at his family’s castle in Loyola in the Basque region of Spain, he experienced conversion in which he renounced his former … Continue reading
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Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888), Missionary Bishop on Horseback
Visitors to downtown Santa Fe are drawn to two majestic buildings, the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi and the Chapel of the Loretto Sisters. Little would one suspect today that the founder of these two buildings, indeed the father … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Biography, Christianity, faith, Great Commission, Jesus, missionary, Southwest, travel
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Juniper Berthiaume (1744-?) French Missionary to the Penobscot Tribe
Pope Francis said on his Apostolic Journey to Canada in July 2022, “I have been waiting to come here and be with you! Here, from this place associated with painful memories, I would like to begin what I consider a … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Christianity, Great Commission, history, Jesus, missionary, Penobscot, Religion
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Junipero Serra: Work and Prayer
Franciscan Junipero Serra (1713-1784), one of the founders of Catholicism in California, should he miraculously walk the paths of California today (on tired, sore, bare feet, for he believed in the practice of mortification), he would be astonished at the … Continue reading
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Tagged california, Christianity, faith, history, missionary, saints, travel
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The American Plutarch 