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Author Foley, Patrick, 1933-

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

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

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages) : illustrations.
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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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Odin, Jean Marie, 1801-1870.
Odin, Jean Marie, 1801-1870.
Catholic Church -- Texas -- Bishops -- Biography.
Catholic Church.
Texas.
Bishops.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Catholic Church -- Texas -- History.
History.
Bishops -- Texas -- Biography.
Texas -- Church history.
Church history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Electronic book.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: 9781603448246 1603448241 (DLC) 2012044072
ISBN 1603449949 (electronic book)
9781603449946 (electronic book)
9781603448246 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1603448241 (cloth ; alkaline paper)