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WE may truly say, and all those who knew Father De Andreis most intimately can bear witness to our words, that the continual business of his life was to die to himself by means of … Read More

THE virtue of Christian simplicity leads man directly to God, with the pure and straight-forward intention of glorifying him, while seeking to avoid all duplicity in dealing with the neighbor. This was the virtue inculcated … Read More

The reader has been able to form some idea of the sanctity of the servant of God, both from the letters we have transcribed, and the testimony of enlightened priests, who knew him intimately and … Read More

WE mean by interior life that constant duty to which the servant of God so thoroughly applied himself to remove from his soul every imperfection, for the one ob­ject of becoming completely agreeable to God. … Read More

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