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Thomas J. O'Hara (born March 16, 1949) served as Provincial Superior of the U.S. Province of Priests and Brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross from his election to the position on June 15, 2012 (The Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Patron of Holy Cross Priests) until the election of Father Bill Lies on June 14, 2018.
He died on March 16, 1964, and is buried in the Jesuit cemetery on campus. His Medal of Honor resides in the Archives at The College of the Holy Cross. In 1956, O'Callahan wrote an account of the attack titled I was Chaplain on the Franklin. His service is also recounted in the story "Father Joe" by his nephew, storyteller Jay O'Callahan.
The Reverend Father Charles John McCloskey III, S.T.D. (1953 – 2023) [1] was a Catholic priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei and member of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross. He was a well-known author and spiritual director and a former director of the Catholic Information Center (CIC) located in the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. [2]
John Francis O'Hara CSC (August 1, 1888 – August 28, 1960) was an American member of the Congregation of Holy Cross and prelate of the Catholic Church.He served as president of the University of Notre Dame (1934–1939) and as the Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1951 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.
Under Georgia law, Healy's father technically owned his wife and children as slaves. Healy and his siblings were sent north by their father to be educated at the College of the Holy Cross, and Healy continued his higher education in Belgium at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1864. He returned ...
Peyton was born Patrick Joseph Peyton in Attymass, County Mayo, Ireland, [1] to subsistence farmers John and Mary Gillard Peyton. Peyton was the sixth in a profoundly religious family of five girls and four boys living in a small cottage on a 14-acre (5.7 ha) stony farmland near the foot of the Ox Mountains.
John E. Brooks SJ (July 13, 1923 – July 2, 2012) was an American Jesuit priest who served as the 28th president of the College of the Holy Cross from 1970 to 1994. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1950.
His mother, Frieda (née Fromhart), was of German descent and deeply religious. His father, Tom Berrigan, was a second-generation Irish-Catholic, trade union member, socialist, and railway engineer. [4] [6] Philip Berrigan graduated from high school in Syracuse, New York, and was then employed cleaning trains for the New York Central Railroad ...