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John McCaffrey was born on September 6, 1806 at Emmitsburg, Maryland. John rarely wandered from his country during a long lifetime.
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John McCaffrey was born on September 6, 1806 at Emmitsburg, Maryland. John rarely wandered from his country during a long lifetime.
At the age of thirteen, he entered the preparatory department of Mount St. Mary's College at Emmitsburg and progressed through the college and seminary.
A deacon in 1831, he refused in a spirit of humility to undertake the duties of priesthood until 1838 when he was ordained by Archbishop Eccleston. As a teacher in the preparatory school, as a prefect of discipline, as professor of moral theology in the seminary, as vice-president, as pastor of the neighboring church, as rector from March 1838 until his resignation in August 1872, as professor of Latin literature, and as a member of the governing council until his death, McCaffrey served the Mount with the unswerving loyalty of one whose heart and soul were entwined with the fortunes of the institution. At that time Mount St. Mary's was one of the two leading Catholic seminaries, and a nursery of innumerable priests and no small proportion of the hierarchy. Upon all these ecclesiastics, McCaffrey left a definite impression.
McCaffrey had no episcopal ambitions, though few vacant sees were filled from 1840 to 1860 for which his name was not on the list of nominees. He refused actual appointments to the bishoprics of Savannah and Charleston, and probably to Natchez, as he declared: "Here I am fully as useful as if I held a crozier. " As early as 1853 he had been honored by the hierarchy when his predecessor in the rectorship, Archbishop Purcell, laid the corner-stone of McCaffrey Hall. In 1860 he attracted attention when he petitioned the Maryland legislature to forbid the sale of liquor to minors. A Southerner and state-rights advocate, he was a devotee of Calhoun and an open sympathizer with the South during the war as were several members of the faculty and a majority of the students to the annoyance of such outstanding alumni as the unionist bishops Hughes, Purcell, and McCloskey. His remains were interred in the college cemetery near those of his priest-brother, Thomas McCaffrey.
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McCaffrey was a sound theologian, who spoke with an old-fashioned exactness of rhetoric save when in ordinary conversation he fell with a degree of pride into the Maryland vernacular. He was also a classical enthusiast, and an encyclopedic source of information concerning men and events in the history of the Church in America. A courtly figure, deeply religious but somewhat Puritanical, he was accorded the right to rule, and rule he did with a stern and unyielding discipline. He might well maintain that "I am the college" for he governed quite free from the nominal responsibility to the various archbishops of Baltimore.