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Charles Ignatius White, son of John and Nancy (Coombs) White, who were of old Maryland families, was born on Feburary 1, 1807 in Baltimore.
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Charles Ignatius White
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He was educated in the local schools and at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg. As a seminarian, he studied theology at St. Sulpice in Paris and spent a year in the Sulpician novitiate at Issy prior to his ordination to the secular priesthood in Notre Dame Cathedral by Archbishop Hyacinthe de Quelen (June 5, 1830).
Career
On his return to Maryland, Father White served as a curate at Fell's Point (1830 - 33), as an assistant and as rector of the cathedral in Baltimore (1833 - 43), as professor of moral theology at St. Mary's Seminary (1843 - 45), from which he later received the degree of S. T. D. (1848), as pastor of St. Vincent de Paul's Church (1845), as pastor at Pikesville, where he erected a church (1849), and finally as rector of St. Matthew's Church in Washington, D. C. (1857 - 78), where he became widely known in ecclesiastical and secular circles as a scholarly preacher and as an influential priest. Although a preacher on such important occasions as episcopal consecrations, a second choice for the see of Charleston in 1843, a secretary of the Third Provincial Council of Baltimore (1837) and a theologian at the Fourth Council (1840), and the only priest who had known intimately the nine archbishops of Baltimore, he was never elevated beyond the priesthood. His most severe critic, James Alphonsus McMaster of the Freeman's Journal, admitted that he was exemplary in character, pious, severe in temperament, and aristocratic in bearing, but feared that he had not been preserved from the Gallican tendencies of Paris. While in Washington, White erected a parochial school, St. Matthew's Institute, and St. Stephen's Church; established St. Ann's Infant Asylum, a chapel for colored persons, and a home for aged negroes; introduced the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for social work among the poor; and compiled St. Vincent's Manual. As a musician and artist, he was intelligently interested in hymnology and architecture. Yet his greatest contribution was as an editor and as "one of the outstanding literary figures in the American priesthood". With the Rev. James Dolan, an early social worker in Baltimore, he founded and edited the Religious Cabinet (1842), which was continued as the United States Catholic Magazine (1843 - 48). Later he founded and edited the Metropolitan Magazine (1853). These magazines compared favorably with contemporary secular publications. Indeed, it was their erudite character that proved their undoing because of a lack of patronage among an uneducated constituency. In 1849 White assisted in founding the archdiocesan weekly paper, the Catholic Mirror, which he edited until 1855. In addition, he compiled under varying titles the annual Catholic directory (1834 - 57), issued a revised edition of J. L. Balmes' Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe (1850) and a Life of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton (1853) which passed through several editions, published a revised edition of Chateaubriand's The Genius of Christianity (1856), translated from the French of Charles Sainte-Foi, Mission and Duties of Young Women (1858), and added a chapter on the Church in the United States to the English translation of Joseph E. Darras' General History of the Catholic Church (1866).
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The secular's office; or, Appropriate exercises for every day in the week, arranged in a form simila - Scholar's Choice Edition
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A General History of the Catholic Church: From the Commencement of the Christian Era Until the Present Time; Volume 1
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Life of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton, Foundress and First Superior of the Sisters Or Daughters of Charity in the United States of America
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The secular's office; or, Appropriate exercises for every day in the week, arranged in a form simila - Scholar's Choice Edition
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