TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Allegheny Portage Railroad
KW - Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (1770-1840)
KW - immigrants
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Russian Americans
KW - Michael McGuire (1717-93)
KW - McGuire's Settlement
KW - Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939)
KW - Pennsylvania Canal
KW - priests
AU - Sister Fides Glass
AB - A biographical novel about Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, a missionary priest and Russian aristocrat who converted to Roman Catholicism and formed the first Catholic colony in Western Pennsylvania. Gallitzin is popularly known as the Apostle of the Alleghenies.
C1 - 1770s-1840s
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Cambria County; Loretto; Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel; Ebensburg; Carrolltown; Gallitzin; Munster Twp.; Indiana County; Blairsville; Westmoreland County; Greensburg; Unity Twp.; Sportman’s Hall
C4 - Children’s; Biographical; Historical; Christian; Western
CY - St. Louis
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - A biographical novel about Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, a missionary priest and Russian aristocrat who converted to Roman Catholicism and formed the first Catholic colony in Western Pennsylvania. Gallitzin is popularly known as the Apostle of the Alleghenies.
PB - B. Herder Book Company
PP - St. Louis
PY - 1938
RN - Mary Fides Glass (1889-1955) was born in Reade Twp., Cambria County. An accomplished painter, Glass served most of her life as a Sister of Charity of Seton Hill in Greensburg, Westmoreland County.
EP - 218 p.
TI - The Prince Who Gave His Gold Away: A Story of the Russian Prince, Demetrius Gallitzin
ER -