The Apostle of the Alleghenies: A Pageant Based on the Life and Work of the Prince Priest, Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin

Year of Publication
1940
Publication Type
Playscript
Number of Pages or Episodes
59 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Albert A. Gartland
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Abstract
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.
Notes
Opened in Loretto, Cambria County on Memorial Day 1940 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Gallitzin’s death.
Author Biography
Albert A. Gartland (1906-76) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona.
Time
1770s-1840s
Published
unpublished
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