Author: William John Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-25

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780484721202

Excerpt from The Life of the Very Rev. Thomas N. Burke, Vol. 2 ON October 11, 1871, Fr. Thomas Burke went to the United States as Visitor of his Order (writes his friend and Provincial, Fr. Towers). During the sojourn, besides sermons, he gave four hundred lectures, and about was the result of his labours, many churches thus being freed from debt, and orphanages and hospitals endowed. The duties of the Office on which Fr. Burke now entered were to visit the convents of the American Province, hear the complaints of all who had small grievances to report or suggestions to make, and to frame such regulations as seemed to him expedient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.