Project OPUS: Volume II—1865—1910
The Order of Preachers in the United States: A Family History
Region I: Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Texas
Chronology: (revised by Carl B. Trutter, O.P., July 21, 2009)
Early Dominican Evangelizing / Exploring
1526 Aug. 9
San Miguel de Gualdape is founded near present Georgetown, SC by
Dominicans Anton (or Antonio) de Montesinos (1st Dominican who had been in
US territory to be martyred, June 27,1540), Antonio de Cervantes & Pedro de
Estrada; with 3rd Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón expedition
1539 June 1
Dominicans Juan de Gallegos, Luis de Soto & another friar arrive at Charlotte
Harbor (SW coast of FL) taking part in Governor Hernando de Soto’s
exploration party through present Southern Dominican Province (except OK) +
KY,IN, IL, MO
1542 May 21
Governor de Soto dies & is buried at Lake Village, AR
1543 Sept. 1
Hernando de Soto’s party (including Dominicans de Soto & Gallegos) departs
TX arriving at Rio Pánuco, Mexico on Sept. 10, 1543
1544 Nov. 30
[Juan de Padilla, Franciscan friar, proto-martyr in US, is killed--perhaps in
present Kansas]]
1545 or 1546
Dominicans Juan García & Gregorio de Beteta attempt to walk from Mexico to
Florida
1549 June 24
3 Dominican friars are martyred at Tampa Bay: Luis de Cáncer, Diego de
Tolosa & Bro.Fuentes—Proto-martyrs of southeastern US
1554
5 Dominican friars are killed by Indians near Padre Island on the Texas Gulf
Coast; several other friars are presumed to have been killed; Bro. Marcos de
Mena survives & returns to Tampico & Mexico City & dies in Lima, Peru in 1584
1556
Dominican friars go to San Augustin, FL with Pedro Menéndez de Avilez: 1st
permanent settlement in present US
1559 June 11
Domingo de Salazar & 5 other Dominican friars go into Pensacola Bay, AL &
MS setting up Santa Cruz de Nanipacna (probably on Alabama River) to
evangelize Coosan Indians—part of Tristan de Luna expedition
1606 March
Dominican bishop of Santiago, Cuba, Juan de las Cabezas de Altamirano,
makes pastoral visit to San Agustín as a northern colony of his diocese
Before 1865:
1619
1788 Jan. 2
First slave ship arrives in Jamestown, VA
Georgia is established as a state—the 1st state within our southern region
1788 Good Friday
1793 Apr. 25
Great Fire in New Orleans
New Orleans, LA is established as a diocese—the 1st within our southern
region
1806
St. Joseph Province (Dominican friars) is established
1808 Apr. 8
Bardstown, KY is established as a diocese; (later changed to Louisville, KY)
1822-1892
Friars from St. Rose, KY serve as chaplains for St. Catharine, KY
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1832 Sept. 26
1834
Bishop Edward Dominic Fenwick, OP, dies
Fr. John Thomas Malloy, OP, pastor, San Patricio de Hibernia, then to Goliad,
& back to San Patricio, TX; buried in Victoria, TX
1837 July 28
1838 Sept. 16
Nashville, TN Diocese is established
Richard Pius Miles, OP, consecrated bishop for Nashville, TN at St. Joseph
Cathedral in Bardstown, KY; he was only priest in Nashville at the time; (3rd
Dominican bishop in US)
First Mass celebrated at Magevney home on Adams St., Memphis, TN
Republic of TX becomes prefecture apostolic
Samuel Louis Montgomery, OP moved to Nashville as vicar general &
remained there until death
Florida is established as a state—the last within our southern region
Bp. Miles assigns St. Peter’s Parish, Memphis to Dominican friars with Joseph
Sadoc Alemany, OP (from Aragon Province) as first Dominican pastor; Thomas
Langdon Grace, OP (from Charleston, SC) becomes assistant pastor; parish is
predominantly Irish
Republic of Texas becomes US territory
Diocese of Galveston, TX is established
St. Peter’s Church, Memphis is deeded over to the Dominicans
Alemany becomes provincial, St. Joseph Province
James Aloysius (Luigi) Orengo, OP (1848-1873 comes from Italy to Nashville
& establishes missions in Clarksville & McEwen & at least 10 other mission
churches throughout TN; served both armies during Civil War; 25 years in TN; in
1873 he returned to Italy where he lived for another 35 years
Thomas L. Grace, OP: pastor, St. Peter’s, Memphis
James Hyacinth Clarkson, OP (3rd pastor, St. Peter’s, Memphis, TN) dies of
cholera, an intestinal disease
Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P., becomes bishop of Monterey, CA & first
provincial of Most Holy Name Dominican Province; Francis Vilarassa, OP,
missionary apostolic, accompanies Alemany
Luigi Orengo, OP, from Italy as famous missionary in TN; then he returns to
Italy
US Congress passes Compromise of 1850 to find an acceptable solution to
slavery & territorial issues; lasted for four years
1839
1840
1844
1845 Mar. 3
1846
1846 Feb. 19
1847
1847 Jan. 15
1848
1848
1849
1849 Aug. 25
1850
1850-1875
1850
1850
Pope Pius IX appoints Alexander Vincent Jandel as Dominican vicar general;
in 1855 Dominican general chapter elects Jandel as 73rd master general
1851 Jan. 10
Srs. Vincentia Fitzpatrick, Lucy Harper & Ann Simpson from St. Catharine,
KY with Srs. Magdalen Clark, Catharine McCormack & Emily Thorpe from St.
Mary’s, Somerset, OH, accompanied by Rev. Francisco Cubero, OP, found St.
Agnes Convent & Academy, 697 Vance St., in Memphis
1851 Mar. 11
By an enactment of the Kentucky General Assembly, the name of the Literary
Society of St. Mary Magdalen is changed to the Literary Society of St. Catharine
of Siena
1852-1855
Present St. Peter’s Church built around the 1842 original structure
1853 etc.
Memphis yellow fever epidemics occurred in 1853, 1854,1855, 1867, 1873,
1878 (the worst with 5,100 dying within 2 months), 1879; yellow fever is a
tropical disease caused by a virus transmitted by a mosquito (Aédes Aegypti)
1854 Nov. 23
James Whelan (born in Ireland) appointed provincial by Alexander Vincent
Jandel, vicar general of the Order; he was provincial until 1858
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1855
1855--1872
1855 Sept. 17
Sr. Benvin Sansbury, OP (age 60), a co-founder of both St. Catharine, KY &
St. Mary’s, Somerset, OH, establishes St. Peter’s Orphanage, Memphis
Alexander Vincent Jandel (France): Master General
James (or John) Raymond Cleary, OP, born in Dublin, Ireland, dies of yellow
fever; 1st of 9 friars (4 of whom are Irish) to die of yellow fever in Memphis, TN
1858 Jan. 17
1858
1859 Jan. 18
St. Peter’s (new) Church, Memphis dedicated
St. Peter’s Parochial School, Memphis, is founded
James Whelan, OP, born in Ireland, appointed as coadjutor to Bp. Miles for
Nashville Diocese
1859 Jan. 21
Thomas L. Grace, OP named 2nd bishop of St. Paul, MN
1859 May 8
1859 July 24
Before 1860
1860 Feb. 21
1860 Aug. 17
James Whelan, OP consecrated as coadjutor bishop at Cathedral in St. Louis,
MO
Grace consecrated bishop in Cathedral at St. Louis
Kate O’Donald is a Dominican tertiary at St. Mary’s, Somerset, OH before
moving to Nashville
Bishop Miles, age 69, dies in Nashville & is buried at St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Nashville
4 Dominican Sisters from St. Mary’s, Somerset, OH, establish St. Cecilia
Convent, Nashville, TN at invitation of Bishop Whelan
1860
1860 Aug. 2
Bishop Whelan owns 4 slaves
Dominican Sisters from Ratisbon, Germany arrive in Nashville to establish
Assumption German School in North Nashville (which never materialized);
temporarily they help at St. Cecilia’s; in Spring 1861, they move to WI & Mother
Benedicta Bauer founds the Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena in Racine, WI
1860 Oct. 4
St. Cecilia Female Academy, Nashville opens & continues in operation during
Civil War years
1860 Nov. 5
Dominican nuns (7 choir & 2 lay) from St. Mary’s, Cabra (Dublin), Ireland
arrive in New Orleans, LA--eventually becoming St. Mary’s Congregation, Third
Order of St. Dominic
1860 Nov. 6
Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th US president
1860-1972
Cabra/St. Mary’s Dominicans staff schools in LA (New Orleans, Chinchuba,
Mandeville) & KS (Wichita)
1860
James Bernard Geraghty, OP dies of yellow fever in New Orleans
1860s
Third Order (secular) is established at St. Louis Bertrand, Louisville, KY
1861 Apr. 12
South Carolina attack on Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, SC—beginning
the American Civil War; (SC, MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX secede from the Union);
President Jefferson Davis establishes provisional government in Montgomery, AL
1860s
Joseph Thomas Jarboe OP (born in KY) ministers to Confederate Army of TN;
also St. Cecilia chaplain until moving to Nashville Cathedral as vicar general
1861 June 24
1861-1865
Governor Harris of TN issues proclamation dissolving union with the North
During Civil War, TN is a Confederate State, while KY is a neutral/border
State; sisters & friars attempt to remain neutral regarding Confederacy & Union;
sisters nurse soldiers from both sides
1861 Spring
St. Mary’s Academy [New Orleans Female Dominican Academy], Dryades St.,
NO, opens by Cabra Sisters; later becomes St. Mary’s Dominican High School
1861 (until c. 1896)
Dispute between St. Mary’s German (Franciscan) Parish & St. Peter’s
(Dominican) Parish, Memphis, about St. Peter’s gaining $6,000 from St. Mary’s
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1862
St. Cecilia Motherhouse, Nashville completes first building wing; (architectural
plan is finally completed in 1904)
1862-1866 or 1867
1863 Jan. 1
Fr. Abram J. Ryan, poet of Confederacy, in TN
President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in
Confederate States
1863 May
James Whelan requested by Rome to resign as bishop of Nashville & left
Nashville for Ohio in July; [possible reasons for resignation: a Yankee
sympathizer during Civil War; insobriety]
1863
Joseph Augustine Kelly, OP, (1827-1885) appointed administrator of Nashville
Diocese (until Jan. 1866); “Father of the orphans of Tennessee”; Dominican
Sisters of the Province are placed under jurisdiction of local bishops
1863 Nov. 26
1864
1864
1864
1864
1864 Dec. 15-16
1865 until 1910:
Samuel L. Montgomery, OP, VG, dies in Nashville after 20 years ministry in
TN
New Orleans sisters purchase Mace Academy in suburban Greenville as St.
Mary’s Academy boarding school
Charter of Incorporation signed for St. Cecilia Convent, Nashville, TN
Sr. Benvin Sansbury, OP (age 70) establishes St. Mary’s Orphanage, Nashville,
TN
Alexander Vincent Jandel, OP, master general, moves the Third Order Sisters
from Dominican jurisdiction to the jurisdiction of local bishops
St. Mary’s Orphanage, Nashville, destroyed during Battle of Nashville
1865 Apr. 12
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia
to US General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, VA beginning the end of the
American Civil War
1865 Apr. 14
President Abraham Lincoln, in office from 1861, is assassinated in
Washington, DC; he dies at 7:22 a.m. on Apr. 15 & is buried in Springfield, IL on
May 4
1865 Apr. 15
Andrew Johnson becomes 17th US president—until 1869
1865 Dec. 6
13th amendment to US Constitution is adopted which gives freedom to
3,500,000 slaves (but does not grant citizenship or equal rights)
1865 June 23
Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders to US his Indian
battalions at Doaksville in Indian Territory
1865
1865 Dec. 24
1865
1865-1921
1865
1865
St. Dominic Church, Springfield, KY is founded
Ku Klux Klan is founded at Pulaski, TN by 6 veterans of the Confederate Army
St. Catharine community, OH had 73 professed sisters & 20 slaves
St. Agnes Sisters, Memphis, TN staff schools in TN (Memphis, Jackson)
St. Rose Parish, KY, has 4 missions
St. Agnes sisters, Memphis, establish a novitiate; 1st 3 candidates receive habit
in St. Peter’s Church on Feb. 26, 1866
1865
Master General Jandel appoints Wm. Dominic O’Carroll from Ireland as
provincial (after a hung election)
1865
St. Louis Bertrand community of friars establish a studium in Louisville, KY;
St. Louis Bertrand Church opens on Limerick (6th St.) for Irish Catholics and St.
Catharine sisters open school there
1865 Nov. 1
Patrick Augustine Feehan (from St. Louis, but born in Ireland) becomes 3rd
bishop--& 1st non-Dominican--of Nashville (until 1880)
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1865
Joseph Thomas Jarboe, OP, is appointed vicar general of Nashville Diocese &
spiritual care of St. Cecilia Academy & St. Mary’s Orphanage (until 1884-1885)
1865 June 19
Union General Gordon Granger announces emancipation of slaves at
Galveston Island
1865-1868
c. 200,000 former slaves learn to read After Civil War Jefferson Davis sends
his daughters to the Sisters’ School in Memphis
1865-1877
1866 May 1
1866 (or 1865)
1866
1866 Summer
1866
1866-1910
1867
1867
Reconstruction in the South 1866 Second Plenary Council of Baltimore decides
that each bishop who has Blacks in his diocese should decide how best to
evangelize them. Bishop Feehan of Nashville mandates that Black & white
people may not worship together
Irish, mostly Catholic, kill 44 Blacks during 3-day race riot in Memphis, TN
riars open St. Peter’s Cemetery, Memphis without permis- sion of the
Provincial; (closed in 1867)
Cholera epidemic in Nashville, TN; 800 die
Sr. Ann Hanlon arrives as superior of St. Cecilia, Nashville with task of
extricating community from its debts
Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable opened between US & Europe
Catharine Sisters, KY staff schools in KY: Louisville, Springfield, Washington
County, Fredericktown
Cecilia Convent, Nashville opens novitiate
Louis Bertrand community of friars, Louisville becomes 3rd formal priory in
the Province & house of studies for Province (with novitiate at St. Rose, KY)
1867 July 12
Cecilia Academy & grounds in Nashville are auctioned at Nashville
Courthouse; Bishop Patrick Feehan & friends of the sisters purchase property for
$20,300 & return them to the community
1867 Sept. 2
Decree of chancery court, Nashville, authorizes sale of St. Cecilia Academy
personal property; Bishop Feehan attends the sale & purchases the property for
the community
1867 Oct. 30
Novice Agnes Ray is 1st Dominican sister to die from yellow fever in Memphis
after making her deathbed profession
1867-1888
1867 & 1877
1867, 1873, 1878, 1879
1868 Mar. 3
1868 June 6
1868 July 4
1868-1903
1868
1868
1868 Christmas
1869-1877
45 sisters had been professed at St. Agnes, Memphis; all white Americans
Yellow fever & tuberculosis (an infectious disease caused by the tubercle
bacillus) kill Cabra Sisters in New Orleans
10,000 (4,000 Catholics) die from cholera and other epidemics in Nashville,
TN
Raleigh is established as Vicariate-Apostolic of North Carolina
Fire destroys St. Mary’s, Somerset, OH
First graduation, St. Mary’s Academy, New Orleans
St. Cecilia Sisters, Nashville staff schools in Washington, DC & in TN
(Chattanooga, East Nashville, Clarksville, Jackson, Nashville, Memphis,
Winchester)
Joseph Thomas Jarboe, OP, resident chaplain at St. Cecilia Academy,
Nashville, TN
14th amendment to US Constitution allegedly ratified by states granting all
persons born or naturalized in the US citizenship & granting due process of law
& equal protection of the laws
President Andrew Johnson grants general Amnesty to all who had part in the
war against the Union
Ulysses S. Grant is 18th US President
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1869-1879
1869 Sept. 24
1869 Dec. 8
1870 Jan. 26
1870
1870
1870
1870
1870
1870s
1871
St. Agnes Community, Memphis staffs schools in TN (Jackson, Memphis) &
FL (Pensacola)
“Black Friday”: Economic Panic-Depression in US
1st Vatican Council opens with 48 archbishops & bishops & 1 abbot from US;
adjourns on Sept. 1, 1870
KY State Legislature approves amendment to Charter of Articles of
Incorporation of St. Catharine Community allowing establishment of branch
houses and acquiring and selling property in states outside KY
Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi & Texas rejoin the Union
Oct. 12 General Robert E. Lee (born Jan. 19, 1807) dies in Lexington, VA
Dominican Sisters expand Dryades St. & Mace Academy buildings in New
Orleans, LA
Vicariate-Apostolic of St. Augustine, FL elevated to a diocese
15th Amendment to US Constitution is ratified by states granting right to vote to
all male citizens, regardless of “race, color or previous condition of servitude”
Studium & Simple Novitiate at St. Rose Priory, KY
Friars invite Brothers of Christian Schools to found a college for male students
at 612 Adams St., Memphis— with Bro. Maurelian Sheel, FSC, as 1st president
1871-1873
Fr. Nicholas Thomas (Father Tom) Burke, visitator appointed by the 1871
General Chapter, gives St. Peter’s Convent, Memphis a rather poor rating for
religious observance; also visited New Orleans during his 18 month stay in US;
left US Feb. 1873
1872
Alexander Vincent Jandel, Master General, dies
1872-1873
St. Peter’s Rectory, Memphis is built
1872
Francisco Cubero, OP, missionary apostolic to US by Pope Gregory XVI,
becomes chaplain at St. Catharine, KY; (dies in 1883)
1872
1873 Easter Sun.
1873-1879
1873 July 29
1873
1873
St. Joseph Province staff parish in Humboldt & other missions, TN
Colfax Massacre of 280 Negroes by Ku Klux Klan & the White League
Giuseppi M. Sanvito (Italy): Vicar General of Order
sisters in St. Mary’s Community, New Orleans
Western Mission Band (preachers of parish missions) is established at St. Louis
Bertrand Priory in Louisville, KY
St. Agnes Sisters convert LaSalette Academy, Memphis into a hospital for
yellow fever victims, particularly caring for priests & sisters
1873 Aug. 18
6 St. Catharine sisters leave KY to open Our Saviour School in Jacksonville, IL
(in the Diocese of Alton, IL); these Dominican sisters are independent of St.
Catharine’s & in Sept. 1890 move to Springfield, IL to become the Convent of
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
1873 Aug-Oct. 1st
MAJOR yellow fever epidemic in Memphis brought by steamer from New
Orleans dropping off 2 sick men—with 5,000 cases & 2,000 deaths, including 5
priests (2 Irish & 2 American friars) & sisters (3 Dominicans)
1873
Summer St. Cecilia sisters nurse cholera victims during cholera epidemic in
Nashville
1873
August 2 Dominican sisters of St. Cecilia, Nashville, go to Memphis to nurse
yellow fever victims
1873
Sept. 23 George Raymond Dailey, OP (born in Boston, Mar. 16, 1849) dies of
yellow fever in Memphis at age 24; he was sick less than 48 hours
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1873 Oct. 7
1873, 1893, 1901, 1907
1873 Oct. 8
1873 Oct. 9
1873 Oct. 13
1873 Oct. 17
1873
American friar, Bartholomew Vincent Carey (age 37) dies of yellow fever in
Memphis
Monetary crises-panics throughout US
Sr. Mary Joseph McKernan (from St. Cecilia in Nashville) dies of yellow fever
in Memphis & is buried in St. Agnes Cemetery; her sister, Sr. Mary Magdalene
McKernan, dies on Oct. 14, 1873
Dennis Augustine O’Brien (from Ireland—born c. 1831) dies of yellow fever
after 5 days
Sr. Martha Quarry, OP, superior of LaSalette Academy, Memphis dies
John Dominic Sheehy (born in Ireland, June 3, 1831), newly ordained, dies of
yellow fever at age 42--one week after his arrival
James Vincent Edelen, OP volunteers & goes to Memphis, where Joseph
Augustine Kelly is only surviving (but recovering from yellow fever) friar
1874 Jan. 10
Cabra Sisters lose ownership of convent/academy on Dryades St., NO;
novitiate closed until 1877
1874 Oct. 15 (or 16)
Srs. Josephine Meagher & Rachel Conway, OP, from the Jacksonville, IL
community, at the request of General Sherman, unveil a monument to Abraham
Lincoln in Springfield, IL
1875
St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum, Nashville officially affiliated with St. Cecilia
Convent (until transferred to Srs. of Charity of Nazareth in 1967)
1875
1875
1875?-1902
1876
1876-1988
1877-1881
1877
1877
1877
1877
1878 Feb. 7
1878 Feb. 18
1878, Feb. 20-1903, July 20
1878 May 16
1878
1878 Summer-Oct. 2nd
Dominican friar students transferred to St. Rose Priory, KY from Louisville,
KY
Friars of St. Peter’s, Memphis attempt, unsuccessfully, to establish a church for
Blacks; (Josephite Fathers establish a church for Black as a mission of St. Peter’s
in 1908)
J.A. Manoritta, exclaustrated Italian Dominican: first rector, St. Anthony
Chapel for Italians, New Orleans, LA
Centenary of US Declaration of Independence
St. Cecilia Sisters, Nashville, TN staff TN schools (Chattanooga, Nashville,
Clarksville, Jackson, Memphis, Winchester)
Rutherford B. Hayes is 19th US President
Federal troops withdraw from LA—ending Congressional reconstruction
following Compromise of 1877
St. Agnes Sisters, Memphis, TN affiliate with St. Catharine Community, KY
C. L. Egan, OP, pastor of St. Rose Parish, Springfield, KY, with the help of Sr.
Ann O’Brien of St. Catharine’s, opens Holy Rosary School for children of former
slaves in Washington County, KY; (merged with St. Dominic School,
Springfield, KY in 1966)
Oct. 20 Provincial Chapter of friars convened at St. Louis Bertrand Priory,
Louisville, KY
Pope Pius IX dies
Bishop James Whelan, OP, dies
Leo XIII is Pope
St. Agnes Academy, Memphis is destroyed by fire
Mrs. Cornelia Wray, living with sisters at Our Lady of LaSalette, Memphis
dies of yellow fever; (perhaps first Dominican tertiary in the area)
MAJOR yellow fever epidemic in Memphis; 17,600 cases with 5,150 deaths
including 10 priests (1 Irish & 2 American friars), 3 brothers & 14 sisters (8
Dominicans)
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1878
1878 Aug. 25
St. Cecilia Sisters, teaching at Our Lady of Lourdes, Chattanooga, TN nurse
yellow fever victims around Chattanooga
Mother Alphonsa Yakel disperses St. Agnes Sisters, Memphis to TN (Jackson,
Nashville), to OH, to KY because of epidemic
1878 Aug. 28-Oct. 4
Mother Alphonsa Yakel, her 2 nieces, Srs. Veronica Gloss & Dolores Gloss,
together with Srs. Bernardine Dalton, Rose Callahan, Josepha McGary, Imelda
Spangler & Laurentia Yakel die at LaSalette, Memphis
1878 Aug. 29
Double funeral for American friars dying of yellow fever at St. Peter’s,
Memphis:
--John Raymond McGarvey (born in KY), age 34;
--John Albert Bokel, Jr. age 27 or 28; (his uncle, John Albert Bokel, Sr., had
been superior in Memphis)
1878 Sept. 19
Irish friar, Patrick Joseph Scannell, age 30, dies of yellow fever at St. Peter’s,
Memphis; he had arrived in Memphis on Sept. 12
1878
1878 Autumn
1879 Feb.
Joseph Kelly, OP, survives Memphis epidemics of 1873 and 1878; he and Sr.
Thomas O’Meara arrange for 55 orphans to be transported to Nashville
14 Cabra sisters in New Orleans contract yellow fever
TN Governor abolishes Memphis city charter because of devastation due to
epidemics; charter is regained in 1891
1879 July 3rd
MAJOR yellow fever epidemic in Memphis; 2,000 cases & 600 deaths-including 4 priests (1 Dominican)
1879 Sept. 26
French friar, Emile Dalmatius Révillé, age 39, is 9th & last friar to die of yellow
fever at St. Peter’s, Memphis, TN
1879-1891
1879
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880
1880s
1881-1881
1881
1881
1881
1881
1881-1885
1882 Sept. 29
José M. Larroca (Spain): 74th Dominican master general
Rule & Constitutions for Nashville sisters is adopted
45 sisters had been professed at St. Agnes, Memphis
Friars of St. Peter’s, Memphis try unsuccessfully to establish St. Anthony of
Padua Mission for Blacks
St. Catharine, KY sisters begin teaching in local public schools
Addition is built to St. Cecilia Academy, Nashville
80 friars in St. Joseph Province; in 1881 there are 103 friars
Fr. Stephen Byrne, OP, writes history (in Latin) of St. Joseph Province
James A. Garfield is 20th US President; dies in office; VP Chester Arthur
succeeds Garfield
June Giuseppe Larroca, master general, visitates St. Joseph Province (including
Memphis on June 18 & supervises election of provincial) & Dominican Sisters in
KY & Memphis
St. Cecilia community, Nashville issues formal statement documenting that
they have paid all their debts
Booker T. Washington founds normal school which later becomes Tuskegee
University, AL
Clara Burton founds American Red Cross
Friars preach more than 200 parish missions
Mother Mary Agnes Magevney, Mother Rose Lynch & 18 other sisters from
Somerset, OH (along with Bishop Nicholas Gallagher) arrive in Galveston, TX—
beginning the Congregation of the Sacred Heart
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1882 Oct. 9
Galveston Sisters open Sacred Heart Academy; in 1893 they begin to staff
other TX schools in Galveston (including Holy Rosary for colored students),
Beaumont, Taylor, Houston, Lampasas, LaPorte & Brenham; [later Ku Klux Klan
forced closing of St. Dominic’s Villa in Lampasas]
1882
Michael Dominic Lilly, provincial, removes Moses Fortune, OP, pastor of St.
Peter’s, Memphis, TN for misuse of parish money
1882
1882, 1884, 1885
1883 Dec. 4
1883 Apr. 27
1884
1884 Nov. 9-Dec. 7
1885-1889
Sr. Frances Walsh, OP, of St. Cecilia, Nashville is appointed superior of St.
Agnes, Memphis
St. Catharine, KY opens 3 branch houses in Illinois
St. Cecilia community, Nashville is granted its second charter of
incorporation—the original charter having been broken when St. Cecilia was sold
in chancery court in 1867
Ira Joseph Dutton is baptized at St. Peter’s Church, Memphis; he became
famous with lepers at Molokai
Pope Leo XIII opens Vatican Archives
Third Plenary Council of Baltimore ordains that an elementary school be
opened in every US Catholic parish as soon as feasible
Grover Cleveland is 22nd US President
1885 Dec. 5
1885
1886-1887
Provincial Chapter for St. Joseph Province is inaugurated at St. Rose, KY
St. Agnes sisters of Memphis leave St. Peter Orphanage, Memphis, TN
Srs. Frances Foecke, Petra LeFevre, Theresa Oberhofer & Laurence Ehr from
Racine, WI staff St. Mary’s School, Pocahontas, AR
1886
1887
Fr. Abram J. Ryan, poet of Confederacy, dies of yellow fever at age 48
First provincial chapter in Nashville, TN of “St. Catherine” of Sienna, Stone,
England becomes Congregation of “St. Cecilia,” Nashville
1887 Mar. 27
1887 Sept. 15
1888 Feb. 10
1888-1910
1888
1888 Apr. 14
1889-1893
Joseph T. Jarboe, OP, age 81, dies at St. Joseph Priory, OH
Bishop Gallagher opens school for Negro children staffed by Dominican sisters
in Galveston, TX
19 sisters remaining of St. Agnes Community, Memphis, affiliate with St.
Catharine Community, KY
St. Catharine’s, KY opens 8 schools in MA
St. Agnes sisters open first school for Blacks in Memphis at St. Peter’s Church;
(school is closed in 1895)
Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, OP, dies
Benjamin Harrison is 23rd US President
1889 Feb. 11
Edward Alphonsus Ashfield, OP, stabbed to death by Alfred Reeves at St.
Peter Rectory, Memphis
1889
New motherhouse and academy built for St. Catharine’s, KY
1889 Dec. 5
President (of Confederate States of America) Jefferson Davis dies in New
Orleans & is temporarily buried in New Orleans; (had been born on June 3,
1808)
1889
St. Cecilia, Nashville completes additional wing containing a chapel & a
convent; original frame buildings are torn down
1890s
1891 Mar. 2
1891
South averages 130 lynchings per year
Mother Agnes Magevney dies from the grippe at age of 50 in Galveston, TX
Parish mission held at St. Louis Bertrand Church, Louisville, KY with 1,800
people attending each service, with special retreats being conducted concurrently
for men and women
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1891-1904
1892 Apr. 30
Andreas Frühwirth (Austria): 75th Dominican master general
Bishop McCloskey imposed upon St. Catharine sisters the “Stone”
constitutions (which had been followed by St. Agnes community in Memphis
prior to the affiliation of the 2 communities)
1892
May Bishop McCloskey replaces Dominican chaplains at St. Catharine, KY
with 2 diocesan priests
1893-1897
Grover Cleveland is 24th US President
1893
1895
123 Dominican Sisters in Louisville Diocese
Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati, advises St. Catharine, KY sisters to observe
constitutions of St. Agnes Community, Memphis,TN
1895
Galveston sisters open new Catholic schools: in Beaumont, TX (1895), Taylor,
TX (1896), Houston, TX (1897), Lampasas, TX (1900)
1896
Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court decision upholds 1890 LA law requiring
separate facilities for white & colored passengers on railroad cars, in schools;
(overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954)
1897-1901
William McKinley is 25th US President; assassinated, Sept. 6, 1901; VP
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
1897 Feb. 22
1897 Apr. 7
Bishop Langdon Thomas Grace, OP, dies
St. Catharine community, KY celebrates its diamond jubilee with 206 sisters
attending & remaining for 1 month
1897
Second yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans
1898 Apr. 25-Aug. 12
Spanish-American War between Kingdom of Spain & US; US gains ownership
of Puerto Rico, Guam & Philippines and Cuba gains independence; (this war
helped cement relations between North & South in US)
1898
Dominican Sisters of Galveston, TX cede Holy Rosary School (for colored
students) in Galveston to Sisters of the Holy Family
1899
US Supreme Court rules that states could erect schools for white students only
(even if there were no schools available for Blacks)
1900
1900 Sept. 8
Dr. Walter Reed isolates cause of yellow fever
Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX—killing between 8-10,000 people; (deadliest
natural disaster in US)
1900-1915
15 million immigrants enter US
1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt is 26th US President
1901
1901 Holy Week
1901-1909
1902 June 23
1902
1903, Aug. 4-1914, Aug. 20
1903
1903 Sept. 15
Tomás Lorente Ibáñez, OP, of Holy Rosary Spanish Province, arrives in NO
from Philippines (with Archbishop Chapelle) as first friar to be permanently
stationed in LA
Fire destroys large section of St. Agnes Academy, Memphis, but re-built by
1902
St. Catharine’s, KY opens 4 schools in Nebraska
Sacred Heart Congregation, Galveston, TX receives formal affiliation with the
Order of Preachers
Dominican chaplains return to St. Catharine, KY after Bp. McCloskey dies
Pius X is Pope
Pope Pius X issues decree allowing frequent reception of Holy Communion
Pope Pius X’s brief recognizes Cabra & all daughters as “partakers of all the
privileges which the Nuns of the Second Order of St. Dominick enjoy”, clarifying
legal status of St. Mary’s Dominican Sisters, New Orleans, LA
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1903 Oct. 1
1903
After 1903
1904 Jan. 2
1904-1916
1905 Jan. 19
1905
1907
1907-1909
1908
1908
1908 July
1909-1913
Holy Rosary Province (Spanish friars) assumes pastoral responsibility for “old”
St. Anthony Parish / Old Mortuary Chapel, Rampart St. & Conti St., New
Orleans, LA
St. Cecilia, Nashville opens new wing to convent
Holy Rosary Province begins negotiations for Rosaryville property &
Tangipahoa Catholic parishes between Archbishop Chapelle (of New Orleans) &
Fr. Buenaventura García de Paredes (Holy Rosary Provincial) without knowledge of, or permission from, Fr. Lawrence F. Kearney (St. Joseph Provincial).
St. Catharine Motherhouse and Academy, Washington County, KY destroyed
by fire--& then re-built
Ven. Hyacinth M. Cormier (France): 76th Dominican master general
Hyacinth M. Cormier, master general, grants affiliation to the Dominican
Order of all St. Catharine, KY sisters as members of the Third Order of Penance
Catholic Church Extension Society is established
St. Joseph Province has 175 friars with 8 convents (priories) and 9 vicariates
(less formal communities)
Newburgh, NY Dominican Sisters staff schools in Newton Grove (separate
schools for Black & white students), Durham & Raleigh, NC—leaving these
schools by 1980. [St. Joseph Province staffs St. Monica Black mission parish,
Raleigh in 1934 (but suppressed in 1968)]
U.S. is declared no longer a mission church
Religious men & women moved from jurisdiction of “Sacred Congregation for
Bishops and Regulars” & “Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith” to
“Sacred Congregation for Religious”
Mother Mary de Ricci Hutchinson, elected first American prioress, St. Mary’s
Congregation, New Orleans, LA
William Howard Taft is 27th US President
1909 Mar. 18
1909 April
James Luigi Orengo, OP, dies near Viterbo, Italy
St. Mary’s Dominicans begin to staff Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary School,
New Orleans, LA
1909
St. Anthony of Padua Church (for Blacks) is established, Hill & Concord Sts.,
Memphis (by Josephites)
1909 Jan.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded in
New York City—as result of the 1908 race riots in Springfield, IL
1910
St. Mary’s Dominican College, St. Charles & Broadway, New Orleans, is
chartered by State of Louisiana; is closed in 1984
1910
St. Catharine community, KY had professed 310 sisters; all members were
white Americans
After 1910:
1911
Rosaryville & Tangipahoa Catholic parishes, LA purchased by Holy Rosary
Province; [Fr. Lorente names Rosaryville on suggestion of Mr. Mary de Ricci
Hutchinson, OP]; Rosaryville becomes House of Studies for Holy Rosary
Province with Dominican students from Spain; [Holy Rosary Province leaves
Louisiana in 1938]
1912 Oct. 1
St. Thomas Aquinas School, Hammond, LA, is opened under administration of
St. Mary’s Dominicans in conjunction with Holy Ghost Dominican Parish
1913 Mar. 1
Holy Rosary Dominican Parish, Houston, TX is estab- lished; Raphael
Augustine LaPlante, OP, is first pastor
1913 May 15
St. Cecilia Congregation, Nashville, affiliated with Dominican Order
1914 Sept. 3
Benedict XV elected Pope
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1915
Thomas B. Byrne, Bp of Nashville, invites friars to assume pastoral
responsibility of 13-county mission territory in NE TN, with Johnson City as
headquarters
1915 Aug. 15
St. Anthony Mortuary Chapel of Holy Rosary Province is transferred to new
St. Anthony of Padua Church, Canal & Olympia Sts., New Orleans, LA
1915 Aug. 24
1916 Dec. 17
1916
1916-1925
1917 Apr. 16
1918
1919
1923
1926
1926 Sept.
1926-1929
1929-1946
1936 Jul-Nov.
1936 Aug. 12
1938
1946
1946-1954
Tomás Lorente Ibáñez dies in New Orleans; buried at Rosaryville, LA
Hyacinth M. Cormier, former master general, dies in Rome
Dominican Sisters of St. Mary’s Congregation open St. Anthony of Padua
School, New Orleans
Louis Theissling, of Holland: 77th Dominican master general
US enters World War I (until Nov. 11, 1918)
Code of Canon Law is revised
Newman Hall for Catholic women, University of TX, Austin opens
Rule of Third Order is revised
St. Mary’s Dominicans, New Orleans, LA “received tentative approval from
Rome in 1926,” thus becoming Independent from Cabra Dominican Sisters
Sacred Heart Sisters move motherhouse from Galveston to Houston, TX
Buenaventura García Paredes (Spain): 78th Dominican master general
Martin-Stanislaus Gillet (France): 79th Dominican master general
Martyrdom in Spain of 6 friars who had lived in southern US: 1 at Cuero, TX
& 5 at Rosaryville, LA
Buenaventura García Paredes martyred in Madrid, Spain
Martin-Stanislaus Gillet, Dominican master general, visitates New Orleans (&
other US locations)
St. Mary’s Congregation, New Orleans becomes pontifical Congregation
Emmanuel Suárez: 80th Dominican master general
1955-1962
Michael Browne (Ireland): 81st master general
1961
1962-1974
Aquinas Junior College, Nashville, is opened
Aniceto Fernández (Spain): 82nd Dominican master general
1974-1983
Vincent de Couesnongle (France): 83rd Dominican master general
1983-1992
Damian Byrne (Ireland): 84th Dominican master general
1992-2001
Timothy Radcliffe (England): 85th Dominican master of the Order
2001-
Carlos Azpiroz Costa (Argentina): 86th Dominican master of the Order
2004
St. Francis de Paula, San Diego, TX is last of South Texas parishes staffed by
friars from Province of Spain
2007 Oct. 28
Beatification of 62 Spanish friar martyrs, including García Paredes
2008 Oct. 11
Dedication of monument commemorating 6 beatified Dominican Spanish
Martyrs, Friars’ Cemetery, Rosaryville, LA
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