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Brother Joseph Dutton: Friend to the Lepers of Molokai
Joseph Dutton, a convert, spent 44 years serving lepers on the Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai, Hawaii. He helped St. Damien and St. Marianne Cope.
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The World’s Largest Rosary Collection
The world’s largest rosary collection is in the Columbia Gorge Museum in Washington. Don Brown, a Catholic convert, collected more than 4,000 rosaries.
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Eucharistic Congresses in the U.S.
Before 2024 the last national eucharistic congress in the US was in 1941. Eleven eucharistic congresses took place in the US between 1895 and 2024.
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Perry Como
Perry Como sold hundreds of millions of albums and had a successful 19-year television career. His Catholic faith and his family kept him grounded and humble.
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Margaret Haughery
Margaret Haughery, the “Bread Woman of New Orleans,” was an immigrant from Ireland who lost her family twice before starting successful businesses and doing extraordinary philanthropy.
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The Apparition of The Lady in Blue
Sister Maria de Jesus de Agreda, the Lady in Blue, a Spanish nun, enjoyed the gift of bilocation and evangelized the Jumano people near San Angelo, Texas
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American Catholic Food: Creole, Cajun, Filet-o-Fish, Pepperoni Rolls, Monterey Jack, and Muskrat Fridays
Catholics in America are responsible for some uniquely American foods: Monterey Jack cheese, Cajun food, Creole food, the Filet-o-Fish, the Pepperoni Roll, and Muskrat Fridays
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Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon and Maronite Catholics
The Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon, just outside Youngstown, Ohio, is a pilgrimage site for Maronites across the country.
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Old St. Mary, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Old St. Mary Church in Pine Bluff, Arkansas was originally built on a barge in 1786, and is the birthplace of Catholicism in Arkansas.
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Mother Catherine Spalding
Mother Catherine Spalding, founder of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, in Kentucky, spent 45 years building schools, orphanages, and infirmaries through her order.
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Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart became a beloved and influential comedian through his album, The Button Down Mind, plus his TV shows The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart.
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He lived a hedonist lifestyle, but was raised Byzantine Catholic and had a Catholic funeral.
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Catholics around the globe remember and honor great men and women from all over the place, and all through the ages. We are a religion of tradition, a religion which remembers events, and cherishes places where those events took place. So many of these places are in Europe, the Middle East, the north of Africa, and east Asia, where great missionaries and great teachers spread the Gospel. Men like Peter and Paul, Augustine of Hippo, Francis Xavier, Patrick, Francis, Thomas Aquinas, Jerome, and so many more. And there are women like Teresa of Avila, Gertrude, Catherine of Siena, Mary Magdalene, Bridget, Veronica, Clare, and many, many more.
These men and women, and the things they did, are rightly venerated the world over.
But we Catholics in America have a remarkable history of our own. The men and women who brought the faith to these shores, who helped it to spread, who poured themselves out for Christ, all have stories and give examples that we owe it to ourselves to come to know.
And the story of the growth of the faith here is interwoven with the stories of our national history. In fact, Catholics were already active across much of the continent long before the founding of the United States.
American Catholics played significant roles in the founding of the United States, and then the growth and development of her laws and national customs. Catholics founded a number of her great cities. Catholics have been important members of every aspect of American life from government to popular culture, plus education, health care, athletics, civil rights activism, and more.
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