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003			OCoLC
005			20190501175725.0
007			ta
008			991012s2006 nyuaf db 001 0beng d
020			_a0060853484 (lg. print : pbk.) : _c$24.95
024	3		_a9780060853488
040			_aOCO _cOCO _dBAKER
049			_aCTMA
100	1		_aBrinkley, Douglas.
245	1	0	_aParish priest _h[text (large print)] : _bFather Michael McGivney and American Catholicism _cDouglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster.
250			_a1st Harper large print ed.
260			_aNew York : _bHarperLargePrint, _cc2006.
300			_axv, 299 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-289) and index.
520			_aThe son of Irish immigrants, McGivney was a man to whom "family values" represented more than mere rhetoric. And he left a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world. In the late 1800s, discrimination against American Catholics was widespread. Many Catholics struggled to find work and ended up in infernolike mills, where an injury or death would leave a family penniless. Called to action in 1882 by his sympathy for these suffering people, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, an organization that has helped to save countless families from the indignity of destitution. From its uncertain beginnings, it has grown to an international membership of 1.7 million men. At heart, though, Father McGivney was never anything more than an American parish priest, and nothing less than that, either--perhaps the most beloved parish priest in U.S. history.--From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aMcGivney, Michael J. _q(Michael Joseph), _d1852-1890.
610	2	0	_aCatholic Church _zUnited States _xClergy _vBiography.
610	2	0	_aKnights of Columbus _vBiography.
650		0	_aPriests _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aLarge type books.
700	1		_aFenster, J. M. _q(Julie M.)
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907			_a.b22415506 _bmulti _cc
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