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IN his letters to Rome, addressed to the Vicar General of the Congregation of the Mission, Father De Andreis frequently ex­pressed his desire of being set free from the bonds of earth, in order to … Read More

IN the early days of the nineteenth cen­tury a colony of Catholics settled at Perry­ville in Perry County, Mo., about eighty miles south of St. Louis. Nearly all the land in this county was covered … Read More

IN September Father De Andreis, in con­cert with Fathers Acquaroni and Ferrari, having concluded the retreat at the semi­nary of St. Thomas, received the welcome intelligence that Bishop Dubourg, with some thirty priests, had arrived … Read More

BEFORE further describing the journey of Father De Audreis, and the Missionaries of Louisiana, it will be well to give a short notice of that vast country, not only with reference to its civil and … Read More

ON the 27th of December 1815, Father De Andreis arrived at Placentia, where he had the pleasure of again meeting a number of his former fellow students, professors and superiors. He preserved, during the whole … Read More

FROM the time that Father De Andreis took the firm resolution of entering the Con­gregation of St. Vincent de Paul, he was in­stinctively urged by a desire of being one day able to devote himself … Read More

THE air of Placentia was very prejudicial to the health of Father De Andreis, who suffered frequently from very violent head­aches. His superiors, therefore, thought of removing him to another place, and sent him to … Read More

THE Very Rev. Felix De Andreis was born of respectable and pious parents, on December i3th, 1778, at Demonte, a con­siderable hamlet in the present diocese, and former province, of Cuneo, Piedmont. We have not … Read More