This Day in Province History: February 19, 1863
Fr. James Darragh, ordained two years, wrote to his classmate, Fr. James Waldron, on this day in 1863 about his first winter in Upstate New York, where he had singlehanded care of the towns of Hoosick Falls, Cambridge and Salem. “The church is so dreadful cold that sometimes on Sunday I don’t know whether my feet or hands are on my body or not.”
This Day in Province History: February 18, 1925
The Provincial Definitory authorized the establishment of a novitiate at Madison, New Jersey, pending permission of the Bishop of Newark, New Jersey.
This Day in Province History: February 17, 1921
Bishop William Jones, after serving 14 years as bishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, died at the age of 56 in St. Joseph Hospital, Philadelphia and was buried on the 23rd in the community cemetery, Villanova.
This Day in Province History: February 15, 1968
In a letter addressed to the Prior General, permission was given by the Congregation of Religious to use the vernacular in the recitation of the Divine Office. The Province Newsletter indicated that houses wishing to do so were to so indicate by a secret vote of the community.
This Day in Province History: February 14, 1981
Pope John Paul II ordained 12 Japanese priests in the cathedral of Nagasaki, Japan. Among them was Augustinian Father Joseph Akakura of the Villanova Province.
John Joseph Sheridan, O.S.A.
1929 – 2023 (February 9) John Joseph Sheridan, O.S.A., was born on April 16, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Elizabeth Sheridan, and he was baptized at Saint Vincent’s Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 4, 1929. He entered the Order as a brother candidate on June 19, 1944, at Augustinian College, Washington, DC. After […]
This Day in Province History: February 13, 1962
The Definitory minutes of this day record that “Rev. Frs. L. Spirali, P. Hufnagel and E. McCarthy, whose former convents were confiscated by the communists in Cuba, were assigned to the only convent in the state of Florida, Our Lady of the Angels in Jacksonville on January 8, 1962.”
This Day in Province History: February 10, 1940
The Province Mid-Chapter affirmed and approved the necessary details concerning personnel, financial status, geographical limits and other particulars for the creation of a new Province in the Midwest to be known as the Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel.
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This Day in Province History: February 8, 1894
Brother Dennis Gallagher, the last of the early members of the Villanova community, died on this day. He and Brother Thomas McDonnell had helped build the old study hall chapel of the college in 1844.