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Item 35390

Crucifix belonging to Father John Bapst, ca. 1850

Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School Date: circa 1850 Location: Bangor Media: Wood

Item 35484

John Bapst High School, Bangor, ca. 1940

Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School Date: circa 1940 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard

Item 35365

John Bapst transfer of cemetery lot ownership, Bangor, 1856

Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School Date: 1856-11-19 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper

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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.

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John Bapst High School

John Bapst High School was dedicated in September 1928 to meet the expanding needs of Roman Catholic education in the Bangor area. The co-educational school operated until 1980, when the diocese closed it due to decreasing enrollment. Since then, it has been a private school known as John Bapst Memorial High School.

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The Nativist Klan

In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.