First American-born Priests and Catholic Religious of New England

First American-born Priests and Religious in N.E. A history of the first American-born priests and Catholic religious in the, early 1800’s, when the diocese of Boston comprised all of New England. All of them were converts to the Catholic faith. There is the unique family of Virgil and Jerusha Booth Barber who separated in order to enter Catholic religious communities. Virgil, born in Simsbury, Connecticut became a Jesuit priest. Jerusha (Booth) Barber, his wife, born in Newtown, Connecticu...