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JOHN BAPST

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Jesuit missionary and educator, b. at La Roche, Fribourg, Switzerland, 17
December, 1815; d. at Mount Hope, Maryland, U.S.A. 2 November, 1887. At twelve
he began his studies at the college of Fribourg, and on 30 September, 1835,
entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. He was ordained priest, 31
December, 1846, after the usual course of studies and teaching. He arrived in
New York in 1848 and, though ignorant of both English and Indian, was sent to
minister to the Indians at Old Town, Maine. The inhabitants received him with
every demonstration of joy, but he found them in a very degraded moral
condition. They had been without a priest for twenty years, and he laboured
zealously for their reformation. He founded several temperance societies in
Maine. In 1850 he left Old Town for Eastport. His work immediately began to
attract attention, both for its results among Catholics and the number of
converts who were brought into the Church. As his missions covered a large
extent of territory, he became generally known through the State. When the
Know-Nothing excitement broke out he was at Ellsworth. Besides being disliked as
a Catholic priest, he was particularly obnoxious because of his efforts to
establish a Catholic school there. On 3 June his house was attacked, and on 5
June, 1851, in pursuance of an order of the Town Council, which was directed to
be published in the papers, he was dragged out of the residence of one of his
people, was tarred and feathered, and ridden on a rail to the woods outside the
town, and ordered to leave the neighbourhood. Some acounts have it that there
was an attempt to burn him to death, which, for some reason or other, was
prevented. He recovered from his injuries and continued his work. The outrage at
Ellsworth met with general condemnation. Father Bapst built the first church at
Bangor, which was dedicated in 1856. He remained there for three years and was
then sent to Boston as rector of the college which was at that time the house of
higher studies for the Jesuit scholastics. He was afterwards superior of all the
houses of Canada and New York, and subsequently superior of a Residence in
Providence, R.I. In 1879 his mind began to fail, a result, it was thought, of
the Ellsworth occurrence. His remains were interred at Woodstock, Maryland.


SOURCES

Woodstock Letters, XVI, 324; XVII, 218, 361; XVIII, 83, 1;;29, 304; XX, 61, 241,
406; SHEA, Hist. of the Catholic Church in U.S. (New York, 1904).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Campbell, T. (1907). John Bapst. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New
York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258a.htm

MLA citation. Campbell, Thomas. "John Bapst." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2.
New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by WGKofron. With
thanks to Fr. John Hilkert and St. Mary's Church, Akron, Ohio.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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