Lefebre de, a Roman Catholic dignitary, was born at Mayenne, France, Jan. 28,1768. He entered: the priesthood in Paris, in 1790; came to the United States, labored among the Indians and scattered Catholics of New: England; was consecrated in Baltimore first bishop of the new see of Boston, Nov. 1 1810; declined an appointment to the archbishopric of Baltimore; was transferred to the see of Montauban, France, in 1818; was made archbishop of Bordeaux in 1820; cardinal in 18,36, and died July 19 of the same year. Bishop Cheverus endeared himself to all by his charities and good works. While in Boston he prepared, a prayer-book and a French Testament. ‘ See Life of Cardinal Cheverus, by Rev. J. Huen Dubourg, transl. by Robert Walsh (Phila. 1839; according to De Courcy and Shea, the real author of this book is Rev. Mr. Hamon, a Sulpician, as appears from later French editions). See De Courcy and Shea, Hist. of the Cath. Church in the United States, p. 70, 99, 508, 509; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.<\/p>\n
Cheverus, Jean Louis Anne Madeleine Lefebre de, a Roman Catholic dignitary, was born at Mayenne, France, Jan. 28,1768. He entered: the priesthood in Paris, in 1790; came to the United States, labored among the Indians and scattered Catholics of New: England; was consecrated in Baltimore first bishop of the new see of Boston, Nov. 1 … Continue reading “Cheverus, Jean Louis Anne Madeleine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}