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Item 11015
Title: Wind power, Madison, 1981
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1981-01-06
Location: Madison
Media: Photographic print
Item 35333
Title: John Bapst, Bangor, ca. 1860
Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School
Date: circa 1860
Location: Bangor
Media: Photograph
Item 1183
Title: Home of Benjamin Rogers, Jaffa, Palestine, ca. 1866
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1866
Location: Jaffa; Jonesport
Media: Photograph
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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.