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This list of College of the Holy Cross alumni includes graduates and non-graduate, former students at the College of the Holy Cross. Since its founding in 1843 and its first commencement in 1849, Holy Cross has graduated 171 classes of students. As of the 2019-20 academic year, Holy Cross had approximately 38,511 alumni. [1]
Michael A. O'Kane SJ (July 12, 1849 – December 26, 1917) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was the president of the College of the Holy Cross from 1889 to 1893. . Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States as an infant and was raised in Massachuset
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The College of the Holy Cross was founded by Benedict Joseph Fenwick, second Bishop of Boston, as the first Catholic college in New England. [11] [12] Its establishment followed Fenwick's efforts to create a Catholic college in Boston which had been thwarted by the city's Protestant civic leaders. [13]
Father Thomas Edward Dubay (December 30, 1921 – September 26, 2010), S.M., was an American Catholic priest, author, and retreat director. He wrote over 20 books on Catholic spirituality, in which he emphasized the importance of renewed conversion and contemplative prayer, and he traveled worldwide to teach at parishes, seminaries, and monasteries.
Joseph J. Himmel SJ (born Joseph J. Himmelheber; January 16, 1855 – November 3, 1924) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit.For much of his early life, he was a missionary throughout the northeast United States and retreat master.
After his presidency of Boston College, Keleher was a professor, administrator, and trustee at the College of the Holy Cross. He also worked at Campion Hall, the Jesuit retreat center in North Andover, Massachusetts. Keleher died on October 27, 1975, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston. Three brothers and one sister were alive at the time of ...
In the 2010s, retreats at St Beuno's began to be featured in the national media. [9] [10] [11] In 2010, it was a location for the BBC series The Big Silence where participants spent 8 days on a silent retreat at St Beuno's. [12] In 2017, two actors also did an 8-day retreat there in preparation for the Martin Scorsese film Silence. [13] [14]