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Item 35333
Title: John Bapst, Bangor, ca. 1860
Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School
Date: circa 1860
Location: Bangor
Media: Photograph
Item 34718
Title: Sebastian Rasles copy of 'Medulla Theologiae Moralis,' 1682
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1682
Location: Norridgewock
Media: Ink and pencil on paper
Item 35485
Title: St. John's Church, Bangor, ca. 1930
Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School
Date: circa 1930
Location: Bangor
Media: Postcard
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Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
Exhibit
Some historical events make us squirm. How do we deal with history that we sometimes wish had not happened in our communities?