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2 unusual facts about John Dubois


Jean Dubois

Jean Dubois (bishop) (18th century), French Catholic missionary in Virginia and Appalachians, third bishop of New York

Mary Aloysia Hardey

Bishop John Dubois having invited the Society to New York in 1840, Mothers Calitzin and Hardey opened the Society's first convent in the Eastern United States on Houston Street in lower Manhattan, later located uptown on Aqueduct Avenue, and now established in Greenwich, Connecticut.



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