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The society was founded officially on St Patrick's Day, 17 March 1932 by Monsignor Patrick Whitney (1894 - 1942) at Kiltegan, County Wicklow, Ireland. Its original aim was the Christian evangelization of Nigeria. In 1951, the society expanded its missionary activities outside of Nigeria. [2]
In 1924, Judge established the Shrine of St. Joseph in Stirling, New Jersey. The Missionary Servants continue to operate the shrine. [4] [5] Outstanding as a preacher of missions and retreats and manifesting an extraordinary zeal for souls, he was widely known and revered. Although remaining a Vincentian priest, his superiors relieved him of ...
Monsignor Patrick Joseph Whitney (1894–1942), was an Irish priest who in 1932 founded the Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions [1] known as the Kiltegan Fathers. Whitney was born in Ballyfermoyle, between Keadue and Lough Key in County Roscommon , on the borders with County Sligo and County Leitrim .
The Society was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 17 (St. Patrick's Day), 1771. [1]Among the founders were General Stephen Moylan, aide to George Washington and cavalry commander in the Revolutionary War, and Thomas Fitzsimons, representative of Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress and signatory of the U.S. Constitution, both of whom were born in Ireland.
Outside of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Moorestown, New Jersey. The parish grew out of a mission on the farm of a Catholic family which had settled in Fellowship, New Jersey in 1832; they established a mission chapel named “The Chapel of Our Lady and St. Patrick” at which Mass would sometimes be celebrated by priests traveling from the parish of Immaculate Conception in Camden, about ...
The Roman Catholic St Patrick's Missionary Society, known as the Kiltegan Fathers, has its mother house at High Park 2 km from the village. Kiltegan won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1973. [5] The village is also home to Kiltegan GAA club, which also includes players from the nearby sister village of Rathdangan. Kiltegan GAA club fields ...
Jeremiah McGrath of the St Patrick's Missionary Society was convicted in Liverpool, England, in May 2007 for facilitating abuse by Billy Adams. McGrath had given Adams £20,000 in 2005 and Adams had used the money to impress a 12-year-old girl whom he then raped over a six-month period.
St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral is a pro-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, located in Newark, New Jersey within the Archdiocese of Newark. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 1972, for its significance in architecture, art, religion, and social history. [ 4 ]