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.
This Day in Province History: December 22, 1843
Pope Gregory XVI approved the canonical erection of the Villanova convent and college with the establishment there of the novitiate.
This Day in Province History: December 21, 1919
On this date a cable was sent from Rome giving Provincial Nicholas Vasey jurisdiction over the parish of the Italian Mission, Our Mother of Good Counsel, in Philadelphia, directing him to “assume jurisdiction Italian Mission and give help to save situation.”
This Day in Province History: December 20, 1856
On this day in Old St. Augustine’s Church, Philadelphia, the future Saint John Neumann ordained to the priesthood the future first Provincial and fourth bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, Thomas Galberry.
This Day in Province History: December 19, 1911
The Definitory authorized the Provincial to expend a total of $7,000 for an addition and improvements on the Sea Isle City, New Jersey, cottage.