New England Traditional Catholic Conference

 Schedule
9:30Registration.
10:00Fr. Fragelli, ICRSS. The Liturgy: Blueprint of Our Knowledge and Love of God
11:00Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament, with priests available for Confessions.
12:00Solemn Tridentine High Mass.
1:30Lunch.
2:30Fr. Parrinello, FSSP.
3:30Sidney Olhausen. History of the Douay Bible.

 

Fr. Fragelli Fr. Fragelli
Rev. Canon Henry Fragelli is a priest of the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest. He is Italian, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and raised in New York, USA. After having volunteered for many years in several Catholic lay organizations, in different countries, Canon Fragelli joined the Seminary, in Florence, Italy, at the age of 38. He is therefore a "late-vocation". Today he serves as Rector of the Institute's Oratory of the Immaculate Conception, in Wausau, WI.

 

Sidney Olhausen Sidney Olhausen

Sidney Olhausen has been the Treasurer of the International Society of Bible Collectors for 15 years. He is the author of The American Catholic Bible in the 19th Century, a reference work on early American editions of the Douay Bible. He is a member of the Catholic Record Society of England and author of 3 articles on the Douay Bible in their journal, Recusant History. He has authored several articles in other publications, including the introduction to the 2006 reprint of the Haydock Bible. One of his articles is recognized in the latest edition of the standard British reference work, Dictionary of National Biography, in its article on Fr. George Leo Haydock. He is the author of the Wikipedia articles on Fr. Haydock and his brother Thomas Haydock, the Catholic publisher.

He will give a presentation featuring a slide show and examples of antiquarian English editions.

  • The background: persecution of Catholics during Elizabeth's reign; Catholics forced to worship in secret
  • Early editions of Douay Rheims smuggled into England
  • Catholic scholars in exile responsible for the translation
  • Anglican & Puritan opposition
  • Nary & Witham translations
  • Challoner's revisions
  • The Haydock Bible
  • Early Irish editions; Polemics with Protestant Bible Societies
  • Other early English Catholic translators: different ideas
  • Early American editions of Douay Rheims: Irish immigrant publishing
  • Later and current English Catholic Bible translations
  • Our debt to the English Catholic Recusants

Please click here to let us know you are coming, and you will be entered in a drawing for a Haydock Douay-Rheims Bible with introduction by speaker Sidney Olhausen.

Send any questions to Rich and Don at conference@stmartha-ct.org.