Missionary bishop : Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans / Patrick Foley ; with a foreword by Gilbert R. Cruz.

ISBN:

9781603449946

Title:

Author:

Foley, Patrick, 1933-

Personal Author:

Foley, Patrick, 1933-

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2013.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students ; no. 118

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 118.

Contents:

From France he came -- At the Barrens -- Missouri and Arkansas: a prelude to Texas -- Odin and the emerging American Vincentian presence -- The call to Texas -- Send us some priests -- On the shoulders of Odin -- A vice prefect apostolic arrives -- The mission beyond San Antonio -- He is to be vicar apostolic -- A missionary still -- The search for priests and nuns -- Back from Europe -- Bishop of Galveston -- Adieu, Texas -- New Orleans, the Civil War and Reconstruction, then home.

Local Note:

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Personal Subject:

Odin, Jean Marie, 1801-1870.

Odin, Jean Marie, 1801-1870. (OCoLC)fst00371559

Corporate Subject:

Catholic Church -- Texas -- Bishops -- Biography.

Catholic Church -- Texas -- History.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church. (OCoLC)fst00531720

Subject Term:

Bishops -- Texas -- Biography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.

RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.

Bishops. (OCoLC)fst00833378

Geographic Term:

Texas -- Church history.

Texas. (OCoLC)fst01210336

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=577359

Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2013.

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Summary

In 1822 a young French missionary priest arrived in America, where he would devote the rest of his life to the mission field on behalf of the Catholic Church. Jean-Marie Odin served first in Missouri and Arkansas, then in 1840 moved to Texas, becoming the first Bishop of Galveston in 1847. He held that office until 1861, when he became Archbishop of New Orleans.

The twenty years he served in Texas were important years in the life of the young republic-turned-state. His life and career during this period allow readers to view, in the words of this book's foreword, -French missionaries and their collaborators treading the almost limitless Texas landscape to serve encampments of settlers and to preach the Gospel in English, French, Spanish, and German.-

His decade in New Orleans during the Civil War and Reconstruction spans a period of immense importance to America, the region, and the Roman Catholic Church. Finally, in 1870, Odin returned to Hauteville, France, and died in the same home in which he had been raised.

The role of the church in those turbulent times is revealed through the life and ministry of Jean-Marie Odin.