Keywords: Jesuit Missionary
Item 35333
Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School Date: circa 1860 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 7917
Sebastien Rasles strongbox, Norridgewock, ca. 1721
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1721 Location: Norridgewock Media: Wood, copper, leather
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Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
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"1866Maine Historical Society Jesuit missionary Eugene Vetromile (1819-1881), from Italy, ministered to Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… George Weymouth; documents about murdered French Jesuit missionary Father Rasle of Norridgewock; and reports of the Massachusetts and New York…"
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John Bapst Memorial High School
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