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 - Albert A. Gartland
AB - A biographical drama about Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, a missionary priest and Russian aristocrat who converted to Roman Catholicism and formed the first Catholic colony in Western Pennsylvania.
C1 - 1770s-1840s
C2 - unpublished
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 - Historical; Biographical; Christian; Western
LA - English
M3 - Playscript
N1 - Opened in Loretto, Cambria County on Memorial Day 1940 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Gallitzin’s death.
N2 - A biographical drama about Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, a missionary priest and Russian aristocrat who converted to Roman Catholicism and formed the first Catholic colony in Western Pennsylvania.
PY - 1940
RN - Albert A. Gartland (1906-76) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona.
EP - 59 p.
TI - The Apostle of the Alleghenies: A Pageant Based on the Life and Work of the Prince Priest, Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
ER -