This Day in Province History: February 21, 2012
Fr. Robert Prevost, Prior General, officially established the Federation of Augustinians of North America (FANA) acceding to the request of the four North American Provincials and their respective Councils, and the wishes of their constituencies.
This Day in Province History: January 3, 1899
The Provincial and Council voted to accept on this day the offer of the Archdiocese of New York of a parish on Staten Island to be named Our Lady of Good Counsel.
This Day in Province History: December 31, 1925
Prior General Eustasius Esteban raised the status of the Italian Mission in the United States to that of a Vice Province of the Order, and named Fr. Nicholas Vasey, the Villanova Provincial, as temporary Commissary Provincial.
This Day in Province History: December 30, 1848
The trustees of Villanova College adopted the official seal for the new institution with typical Augustinian features of bible, cross, crozier, cincture, and flaming heart pierced by an arrow, but with no wording.
This Day in Province History: December 28, 1961
Japanese missionary Fr. George Krupa leaves Tokyo for the States after 9 years labor in that country to receive treatment for cancer. He died less than two months later.
This Day in Province History: December 27, 1904
Blessed Stephen Bellesini OSA, patron of both the Province’s pre-novitiate house of formation in Ardmore, PA., and the national novitiate in Racine, WI, was beatified on this day by Pope Pius X.
This Day in Province History: December 26, 1933
Fr. Ray Jackson was born on this day. The co-founder of Villanova’s Center for Peace & Justice, he served as a voice for contemporary social issues on the local, national and international levels.
This Day in Province History: December 25, 2020
May the Gift of Christmas fill your life with joy and peace, now and always!
With the personal, prayerful good wishes, of the friars of the Province of Saint Thomas of Villanova.
This Day in Province History: December 24, 1965
On this Christmas Eve Night in 1865, Fr. Thomas Galberry celebrated the first Mass in the new church of Saint Augustine in Troy, New York, which he himself had been instrumental in initiating and bringing to completion.
This Day in Province History: December 23, 1925
Permission was granted to Fr. Ford to raise funds for the construction of a new high school in Aurora, Illinois.