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1910 – 1989 (August 4) Ambrose J. Godsil was born May 22, 1910 in Aurora, Illinois, to James Godsil and Ella McCarthy, and was baptized June 5, 1910, at St. Mary Church, Aurora. He received the Sacrament of Confirmation in October, 1924, at St. Rita Church, Chicago, Illinois. Following graduation in 1925 from St. Rita […]

1907 – 1966 (March 3) John Joseph Xavier Glynn was born on December 17, 1907, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of Martin Glynn and Katherine McDonaugh. He was baptized on December 22, 1907 at Saint Mary’s Church, and attended the parish school and then Saint John’s Preparatory School in Danvers. He transferred to Augustinian Academy, […]

1904 – 1981 (April 26) John Joseph Augustine Glynn, the son of John Glynn and Katherine Walsh, was born on the feast Saint Augustine, 1904, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. There he received his early education at Saint Mary’s Grammar School and at Lawrence High School. Following graduation, John entered Villanova in 1920, was received as a […]

1913 – 2006 (September 23) John F. Glynn was born February 26, 1913, in Lawrence Massachusetts, one of three sons and one daughter of Michael and Margaret Glynn, both from Ireland. John attended public schools in Lawrence and then began his preparation for religious life at Augustinian Academy, Staten Island, New York. He spent a […]

1906 – 1945 (June 13) John Edward Glennon, son of Thomas Glennon and Marie Morgan, was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on March 20, 1906. He received his education in Pope Leo XIII Elementary School there, and at Boston College High School. Upon graduation from Boston College in 1930, he entered Boston’s Saint John Seminary […]

1865 – 1939 (July 2) Richard Anthony Gleason was born in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, on February 7 1865, to Denis Gleason and Julia Connelly. He entered the novitiate at Villanova on February 2, 1882, and made his profession of vows on February 2, 1883. He was solemnly professed on May 4, 1886, and was ordained […]

1915 – 2006 (March 18) Dante Louis Girolami was born on November 28, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Louis Girolami and Mary Villano. He was baptized in Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Parish, South Philadelphia, and attended elementary school at Francis Reed School, Saint Rita of Cascia Parish School and Wharton Junior High School. […]

1907 – 1961 (December 30)

Samuel E. D’Angelo, son of Angelo D’Angelo and Vittoria Maffei, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on February 11, 1907. He entered Augustinian Academy on Staten Island, New York, as a postulant, and was received into the novitiate on September 9, 1928. He made his simple profession of vows on September 10, 1929, and solemn profession on September 10, 1932. After completing his studies at Saint Mary’s Hall, Villanova, Pennsylvania, and at Augustinian College, Washington, DC, he was ordained to the priesthood on June 9. 1936 in Washington.

1855 – 1926 (December 29)

Thomas Donahoe was born in Longford, Ireland, and baptized on March 4, 1855. He immigrated to the United States, and at the time he requested entrance into the Order, was living in Saint Anthony of Padua Parish, Brooklyn, New York. His choice of the Augustinians was influenced by a member of the Mission Band visiting his parish. Thomas was vested at Villanova, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1889, taking the name Brother Mark, and was professed on September 19, 1895. He made his solemn profession on September 21, 1898.

1924 – 2014 (December 29)

Russell (Rosario) Joseph De Simone, was born on December 10, 1924, in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, the son of Anthony and Nicolina Volpe DeSimone. He had two brothers, Salvatore, who became a priest of the Camden Diocese, and Louis, a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, who became Auxiliary Bishop there. Russell was baptized on December 12, 1924, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Bridgeport. He attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish School, from 1930 to 1938, and Bridgeport High School, from 1938 to 1942.