John Thayer Manuscript

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John Thayer Manuscript

1798

https://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS1986-159

Consists of one manuscript, "A Discourse Delivered, at the Roman Catholic Church in Boston, on the 9th of May, 1798, a Day Remembered by the President for Humiliation and Prayer throughout the United States" (1798) composed by Boston-born, Catholic convert, revolutionary, and priest, John Thayer.

1 linear foot, 2 containers

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676976

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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...