Category: Religion & Philosophy, Philosophical Movements
Item 16595
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn and Charles Malloy at Green Acre, Eliot, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1900 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print
Item 100356
St. Sauveur mission, Mount Desert, ca. 1866
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1866 Media: Pencil on paper
Exhibit
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
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
