A parish for the federal city: St. Patrick's in Washington ; 1794 - 1994

Morris J. MacGregor's narrative traces the history of St. Patrick's from its first years in a new capital, through its triumphal decades as the great downtown parish at the center of a powerful nation, to recent challenges in the face of profound change in the American inner city. Many fam...

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Beteilige Person: MacGregor, Morris J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Washington, DC Catholic Univ. of America Press 1994
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Zusammenfassung:Morris J. MacGregor's narrative traces the history of St. Patrick's from its first years in a new capital, through its triumphal decades as the great downtown parish at the center of a powerful nation, to recent challenges in the face of profound change in the American inner city. Many familiar names appear, from the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the Revolution, to Teddy Roosevelt, hero of San Juan Hill; from President Andrew Jackson and Chief Justice Roger B
Taney to Lyndon Johnson and Earl Warren; from St. John Neumann to St. Frances Cabrini
Abstract:As the oldest Roman Catholic parish in Washington, D.C., St. Patrick's has witnessed the city's evolution from a struggling community into a world capital. Its history provides a particularly useful vantage point from which to trace the development of major social and political issues that have shaped the region and the nation
Umfang:XII, 463 S. Ill.
ISBN:0813208017
0813208025