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1921 – 1992 (November 7) Robert Joseph Welsh was born on July 15,1921, one of two sons and four daughters of Robert Welsh and Elizabeth Walpole, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was baptized and received his elementary education at Saint Agatha Parish, Philadelphia, and attended West Catholic High School, from which he graduated in 1938. After […]

1910 – 1988 (September 18) Henry Francis Weeks was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on February 5, 1910, the only child of Henrv F. Weeks and Catherine Groark. His father died shortly after his birth and he was raised by his devoted mother. Baptized in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Chester, Pennsylvania, he attended Holy […]

1931 – 2011 (January 26) Anthony Wasko was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania on May 16, 1931 to Joseph Wasko and Elizabeth DeConcini. When Tony was a small boy, his father died in a coal mining accident. His mother later married George Price. He professed vows in the Order on September 10, 1951, and graduated from […]

1929 – 1996 (September 28) James Edward Warne, son of James Warne and Anna Curtis, was born on September 16, 1929, in Cambridge, Ohio. He was baptized on September 29, 1929, in Saint Benedict Church there, and attended Saint Benedict Grammar School, Saint Benedict High School and two years at Saint Augustine High School, San […]

1909 – 1990 (November 24) Thomas Francis Walsh, son of Thomas Walsh and Helen McCarthy, was born on August 17, 1909 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was baptized there two days later in Saint Mary’s Church. Thomas was one of four siblings to enter religious life. His older brother, John, was also a member of our […]

1922 – 1986 (March 16) Thomas F. Walsh, son of Thomas Walsh and Elizabeth Gilgun, was born on August 26, 1922 in Woburn, Massachusetts, and entered the Augustinian Novitiate in 1943, after two years at Augustinian Academy, Staten Island, New York. He was simply professed on September 10, 1944 and ordained to the Priesthood by […]

1902 – 1993 (November 9) John Augustine Mary Walsh was born on August 8, 1902 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to Thomas F. Walsh and Ellen McCarthy. Baptized on October 10 he attended Saint Mary’s parish school, graduating in 1915. After a year at Lawrence High School he enrolled at Saint John’s Preparatory School, Danvers, Massachusetts, and […]

1882 – 1974 (September 14) George Solomon Walker was born in Cambridge, New York, on March 21, 1882, one of seven children of Solomon Walker and Mary Ann Buckley. He was baptized on September 29, 1892 by Father Thomas Field, O.S. A. at Saint Joseph Church, Greenwich, New York. He entered the novitiate at Villanova […]

1830 – 1905 (May 27) James David Waldron was born in London, England, on November 19, 1830, the son of William Waldron and Mary Stanton, and a first cousin of Father Patrick Stanton, O.S.A. James immigrated to the United States in 1851 and, on November 13, 1856, entered the novitiate at Villanova, PA. He made […]

1906 – 1983 (June 24) John Joseph Vrana, the son of John Vrana and Josephine Shimek, was born in the Bronx, New York, on December 7, 1906. He became a postulant of the Order at Villanova in 1920, and after completion of high school, was received into the novitiate on June 25, 1924. He professed […]