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.
This Day in Province History: February 6, 1899
Fr. William Jones and Br. George Woolsey assumed charge of Saint Augustine Chapel in Havana, Cuba, for the service of English-speaking Catholics, with the approval of the Ordinary, Bishop Manuel Santander y Frutos and Prior Provincial, Fr. John Fedigan.
This Day in Province History: February 3, 1880
Prior General, Fr. Giovanni Belluomini, wrote to Fr. Pacifico Neno, Prior Provincial of the American Province, informing him that his resignation as Provincial tendered one month earlier, has been denied, owing to the wishes of the friars of the Province.
This Day in Province History: February 1, 1940
Prior Provincial, Fr. John Sheehan, proposed that the novitiate farm at New Hamburg no longer be maintained by the novices, but by a layman who would purchase the livestock and equipment “to eliminate the work imposed on the novices to the detriment of their spiritual and mental formation.”
This Day in Province History: January 31, 1899
Fr. William Jones and Br. George Woolsey arrived in Havana, Cuba, in 1899, to initiate the American Province’s service to that country which would continue until the time of the Cuban Revolution and the withdrawal of the Province in 1961.
This Day in Province History: January 30, 2011
Father John E. Bresnahan celebrated his 100th birthday on this day in 2011, the first friar in the Province’s history to reach that milestone. He read the New York Times every day and is pictured reading it in his room on his 100th birthday.