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Michael Charles Barber, SJ (born July 13, 1954) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Oakland in California since 2013. Biography [ edit ]
Barbers - Cosmas, [5] Damian [8] Barristers - Genesius; Bartenders - Amand [9] Basket makers - Anthony the Abbot, [2] Beekeepers - Ambrose of Milan, Bernard of Clairvaux, Valentine; Beggars - Ambrose of Milan, [5] Elisabeth of Hungary, [10] Giles, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur; Bell makers - Agatha of Sicily [6] Belt makers - Alexius of Rome
Gertrude Agnes Barber was an American educator and administrator who founded the Barber Center in 1952 to serve disabled children, adults, and families. [ 1 ] Born in 1911, she was the child of an Irish immigrant mother and first-generation Irish-American father.
Barber remained there a year and then returned to Georgetown, where he continued his studies until December 1822, when he was ordained a priest at Boston. After his ordination he was sent to his old home, Claremont, New Hampshire, where in 1823, he built St. Mary's Church, the first Roman Catholic Church in the state. [3]
Daniel Barber was not baptized with his wife, but on 15 November 1818, gave up his place as minister of the Episcopal parish of Claremont. Barber went to visit friends in Maryland and Washington, where he entered the Catholic Church. Chloe Barber died in her seventy-ninth year, 8 February 1825.
Jerusha Booth Barber, in religion, Sister Mary Augustine (née Jerusha Booth; also Mrs. Jerusha Barber; Sister Mary Austin; Sister May Augustin; 1789 - January 1, 1860) was a 19th-century American educator and Visitation sister. She entered the Georgetown Visitation Convent in 1818, with her husband entering the Jesuits.
The Pierre Toussaint Haitian-Catholic Center in Miami, Florida, is named for him. [ 7 ] Toussaint Academy San Diego (formerly The Pierre Toussaint Academy of Arts and Sciences) is a residential secondary school for homeless 14–18-year-old youth founded by Father Joe Carroll in 1992 and operated as a component of Father Joe's Villages ...
Local Protestant ministers often held anti-Catholic lectures and sermons to ward the people away from Barberi and the Catholics. Wilson records how one of these ministers followed Barberi along a street shouting out various arguments against transubstantiation , Barberi was silent, but as the man was about to turn off, Barberi retorted: "Jesus ...