Forgotten Lay Patronesses Of The Church | Doctor Bronwen McShea

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🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 27th, 2023, at St. Joseph's in Greenwich Village For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the Speaker: Bronwen McShea is an historian and author who lives in New York City and a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the Augustine Institute in Denver. She earned her B.A. in History and Masters in Theological Studies at Harvard University and her Ph.D. in History at Yale University and has held research and teaching positions at Princeton University, the University of Nebraska Omaha, Columbia University, and the Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. She is the author of three books: the forthcoming "Women of the Church: What Every Catholic Should Know" (Ignatius Press), "La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de Vignerot, Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of France" (Pegasus Books, 2023), and "Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France" (Nebraska Press, 2019). She has also written for a range of both popular and scholarly journals over the years, including "First Things," "American Catholic Studies," and "The Josephinum Journal of Theology."

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1:01.2	Well, hello everyone.
1:02.5	It's great to have you all here.
1:05.3	I'm very excited about this talk.
1:07.3	We have Dr. Bronwyn McShay, who's a historian, studied at Yale, and she's here to tell
1:14.7	us great stories, a forgotten lay patronesses of the church. And I've heard her give little
1:21.4	snippets of this before. I don't know about this talk, but about lay patronesses. And I was,
1:27.3	there were such great stories.
1:29.1	I thought, I have to get her to speak at St. Joseph's.
1:33.2	And so now I'm very excited that we have her here for real.
1:36.6	And she's a New Yorker as well.
1:39.4	So I'm very excited to have her here at St. Joseph's to give this talk.
1:44.7	So I'll start with a prayer quickly.
1:47.6	All right.
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