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1878 – 1925 (October 17) Martin Francis Kessels was born in Eindhoven, Holland, on December 4, 1878, the son of Johannes Kessels and Anna van Piere. He entered the novitiate of the Province of the Netherlands, and was professed on September 21, 1899. He was ordained to the priesthood on August 15, 1904. Father Kessels […]

1920 – 2014 (July 26) Cherubin Formosa Kerr was born on September 1, 1920, in Valetta, Malta, the son of Ernest Kerr and Anna Grima. He was baptized two days later at Saint Paul’s Church, Valetta, and attended Valetta Public Elementary School and Central High School. He entered the Order of Saint Augustine as a […]

1883 – 1929 (June 4) Joseph Bernard Kepperling, son of Winfield Scot Kepperling, a farmer, and Margaret Dwyer, was born in Pleasant Hill, Miami County, Ohio on February 25, 1883. He attended St. Mary’s Parish School in Piqua, Ohio, and Piqua Public Schools, before enrolling in Villanova Prep, Villanova, Pennsylvania. He entered the novitiate at […]

1926 – 2008 (July 5) Thomas Cornelius Kenny was born on December 29, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Thomas C. Kenny and Margaret Ronan. He had two brothers and one sister. He was baptized on January 16, 1927, at Immaculate Conception Church, N. Cambridge, MA., and Attended Saint Patrick’s Elementary School, and Saint […]

1909 – 2001 (January 29) Patrick Joseph Kenny, son of Patrick Kenny and Susan McCloy, was born on February 20, 1909, on Staten Island, New York. He was baptized on March 7, 1909, in the church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, and attended Public School 17 in Tompkinsville, S.I., and Curtis High School. In […]

1910 – 1982 (May 25) Kenneth Joseph Kennedy, son of Thomas M. Kennedy and Mary Melia, was born in Hoosick Falls, New York, on March 6, 1910, and was baptized at Immaculate Conception Church by Father Francis A. McCranor, O.S.A. His grammar school and high school education was obtained at Saint Mary’s Academy, Hoosick Falls, […]

1869 – 1921 (September 1) John Francis Kennedy, son of Thomas Kennedy and Joanne O’Connor, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on August 19, 1869. He entered the novitiate at Villanova, Pennsylvania, on May 3, 1890, and professed simple vows the following year. He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Patrick Ryan in the Philadelphia […]

1915 – 1978 (October 4) Joseph Walter Kemme was born in Philadelphia on March 20, 1915, to Joseph Kemme and Mary Bultermann. Educated in the local Incarnation Parochial School, he entered Augustinian Academy, Staten Island, as a postulant in 1929. Upon graduation in 1933, receiving the General Excellence Award, he entered our novitiate at New […]

1891 – 1971 (February 24) William Patrick Kelly, son of Richard Kelly and Bridget Hill, was born October 18, 1891 in Albany, New York. He began his studies for the Order in 1905 at Saint Rita’s Hall, Villanova, Pa., and in September, 1908, was accepted into the novitiate there. He made his profession of simple […]

1906 – 1987 (May 20) Thomas Joseph Kelly was born on November 15, 1906 in Philadelphia, PA, one of three sons and one daughter of John Kelly and Margaret McElliott. He was baptized at Our Mother of Sorrows Church, Philadelphia, where he attended the parochial grammar school and West Catholic High School. Upon graduating in […]