Publisher's Synopsis
This is the fourth volume of a collection edited by the Roman Postulator of the Beatification Cause, with the purpose of making available some of the historical sources of this relevant figure of the early American Church. Contains Chapter XI of a book published in 1866 dedicated to identify all the Marian places in North America. At the end of his text the author links Mary's presence in the continent with the gift of the life and ministry of the Servant of God the Reverend Prince Demetrius A. Gallitzin (1770-1840). The Marian text it is preceded with a biographical sketch nicely written in 1899 with the occasion of the Centennial of the foundation of the town of Loretto, Pennsylvania.