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Father of the Fatherless
Richard Gribble
其他書名
The Authorized Biography of Father Nelson Baker
出版Paulist Press, 2011
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / ReligiousReligion / GeneralReligion / Christianity / GeneralReligion / Christian Church / HistorySocial Science / Children's Studies
ISBN08091059699780809105960
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fy9OYgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋As Father Nelson Baker's Cause for beatification continues its steady progress, Paulist Press is proud to join Our Lady of Victory Basilica and the Diocese of Buffalo in producing the only official, definitive, and authorized biography of Buffalo's favorite son. Noted historian Fr. Richard Gribble, CSC, drawing on dozens of primary and secondary sources, and with the full cooperation of Our Lady of Victory Basilica, the Diocese of Buffalo, and Niagara University, recreates the life of Nelson H. Baker. All the drama of Father Baker's singular, miraculous life of ninety-six years is captured here: from his birth and later conversion to Catholicism, through his seminary days and fortuitous pilgrimage to Europe, to his early assignments, and finally to the construction of Buffalo's magnificent Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Victory. His unwavering faith is shown in his work with unwed teenage mothers and black Catholics, his sponsorship of trade shops, hospitals, soup kitchens, an orphanage, a boys' home, and most of all, in his founding of an "Empire of the Poor": Our Lady of Victory Services. This new biography on one of the essential figures of American Catholic history includes a foreword by the Bishop of Buffalo and an afterword by the Rector of Our Lady of Victory Basilica. Book jacket.