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Alfred Augustine Gately, O.P. Jubilarian Birth: April 6, 1913 Profession: August 16, 1935 Ordination: June 5, 1941 Died: April 7, 2000 Alfred Peter Gately was born in New York City to Bernard and Elizabeth (Cregan) Gately. He was educated at St. John the Evangelist Grammar School in that city (1921-28). As an aspirant to the Read more…

Thomas Quentin Shanley, O.P. Jubilarian Birth: June 12, 1913 Profession: August 16, 1934 Ordination: May 31, 1940 Died: January 25, 2002 Thomas Joseph Shanley was born in New Haven, CT to Thomas Patrick and Rose Ann (Bohan) Shanley. He was educated in that city at St. Mary School (1920-27) and Hillhouse High School (1927-29) before Read more…

Pierre Hyacinth Conway, O.P. Jubilarian Born: October 23, 1915 Professed:  October 9, 1935 Ordained:   June 5, 1941 Died:   January 23, 2006 Pierre Conway combined a brilliant and penetrating mind in his dedication to the search for truth and in his capacity to understand and explain the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, with a Read more…

Paul Patrick Walsh, O.P. Jubilarian Born:  June 29, 1906 Professed:  August 16, 1928 Ordained:  June 14, 1934 Died:  January 22, 2003 Paul Patrick Walsh, the son of Patrick and Mary Ann Ryan Walsh, was born in Brooklyn, NY, where he attended St. Charles Borromeo grammar school and Brooklyn College Prep High School. After attending Fordham Read more…

Thomas Richard Heath, O.P. Jubilarian Born: June 19, 1920 Professed: May 28, 1944 Ordained: June 10, 1950 Died: January 13, 2005 Father Richard Thomas Heath, O.P., died late in the night of January 13, 2005, in Kisumu, Kenya, Eastern Africa, where he had lived as a member of the St. Martin de Porres Dominican community Read more…

William Bertrand Ryan, O.P. Born:  April 8, 1918 Professed:  August 16, 1941 Ordained:  June 5, 1947 Died: January 10, 2004 Father William Bertrand Ryan, O.P., a Dominican priest of the Province of St. Joseph, died in the morning of Saturday, January 10, 2004, at Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, NY, where he was being cared Read more…

Thomas Bernard Smith, O.P. Born: Jul. 11, 1929 Professed: Aug. 26, 1952 Ordained: Jun. 5, 1958 Died: Jan. 7, 2007 A native of Springfield, KY, where the first foundation of our Province was established at St. Rose in 1806, Father Thomas Bernard Smith, O.P., received his early education there. After attending Providence College in Providence, Read more…

Daniel Edward Mary Casey, O.P. Jubilarian Birth: September 25, 1912 Profession: August 16, 1932 Ordination: June 16, 1938 Died: January 3, 2000 Daniel Edward Casey was born in Chicago, IL to Robert and Eva (Healy) Casey. He attended St. Philip Neri Grammar School (1918-25) and Quigley Preparatory Seminary (1925-30) in Chicago. From 1930-31 he attended Read more…