Archdiocese of Boston Collection

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Archdiocese of Boston Collection

1817-1952

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Correspondence, including original letters and photostats from the Archdiocesan Archives of Boston and the National Archives. Correspondents include missionary priests Stephen Theodore Badin and John Thayer; Jean Lefebvre de Cheverus, first bishop of Boston, and Benedict Joseph Fenwick, second bishop of Boston; and Joseph M. Finotti, collector of Catholic Americana. Also records of the Tabernacle Society of the Convent of Notre-Dame, Berkeley Street, Boston (1898-1906) consisting of correspondence of Lillian Westervelt concerning vestments and altar furnishings for churches and priests throughout New England and for missions across the United States; material concerning Bishop David William Bacon of Portland, Maine; clippings, articles, pamphlets, and pictures.

2.5 linear inches

eng, Latn

University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676974

University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library

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Thayer, John, 1758-1815

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John Thayer was born on May 15, 1758 in Boston, Massachusetts to Cornelius and Sarah (Plaisted) Thayer. Thayer was a Protestant in his early life, graduated from Yale University, and was educated as a Congregational minister. He served as a chaplain during the American Revolutionary War in John Hancock's military company. While visiting Rome in 1783, he investigated accounts of the miraculous cures of Saint Joseph Benedict Labre and consequently converted to Catholicism. Thayer studied for the p...