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His life was the basis for the character Joseph Vaillant in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop. He is also the namesake of Bishop Machebeuf High School, located in Denver, Colorado. The school was founded in 1958.
John Franklin Spalding (August 25, 1828 – March 9, 1902) was a missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. He served as Bishop of Colorado, first as missionary and later as diocesan, between 1873 and 1902.
Saint Joseph Hospital was started when a handful of sisters, with $9 in their pockets, set forth from Leavenworth, Kansas to Denver, Colorado in order to care for the poor and ill. What became known as Sisters of Charity at Leavenworth (SCL) started with a small cottage, and then in September 1873, through donations and begging, opened the ...
Joseph Willging was born on September 6, 1884, in Dubuque, Iowa, to Henry and Elizabeth (née Hanover) Willging. [1] He attended St. Mary's School (1891–1898) and Columbia College (1898–1905) in Dubuque. Willging then went to Baltimore, Maryland, to study at St. Mary's Seminary, earning a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1908. [1]
St Joseph's was the site of a mass excommunication of more than 100 parishioners, after it was found that Father Malone had embezzled a large sum of money. 637 Galapago (also known as the Samsonite house), across the street from the church was built for the sum of $12,000 in the name of Father Malone's mother. The embezzled sum was also $12,000 ...
In the early 1900s, Saint Joseph Parish was one of the largest parishes in Denver. It served the area south of Colfax Avenue and west of Cherry Creek. "St. Joseph School, which had been squeezing kindergarten through ninth-grade pupils into the church basement, built a $29,000, brick, three-story facility at 601 Fox Street in 1908.
"The Life of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster-father of Our Lord Jesus Christ". "Saint Joseph, in the Encyclopædia Britannica". 2010. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. "The vocation of Saint Joseph". Early Christians. 21 January 2013. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013.
Joseph Mason was born Joseph Messier on a farm near Montreal, Canada, [1] January 28, 1840. [2] He was the youngest child in a family of 10 [1] He attended school in both Montreal and Sherbrooke before immigrating to the United States at the age of 15. [2] After moving to the New England region of the United States, he Americanized his name to ...