John A. Ryan was the fist of eleven children born to William and Maria (Luby) Ryan, Irish Catholics who had recently immigrated to Vermillion, Minnesota. Ryan spent his early years working on the family farm and taking part in the devout religious…
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Fr. John J. Burke (1875-1936) was born in New York City to immigrant Irish parents, and entered the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, known as the Paulists, as a young man. Burke embraced a national view of Catholicism drawn from the ideals…