Preston, Thomas Scott

Roman Catholic; b. at Hartford, Conn., July 23, 1824; graduated at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1843; entered the Protestant-Episcopal ministry, 1846; became a Roman Catholic, 1849, and priest 1850; domestic prelate of his Holine , 1881; and is now vicar-general and chancellor of the diocese of New York, and parish priest of St. Ann's. He is the author of Ark of the Covenant, Discourses upon the Joys, Sorrows, and Glories of the Mother of God, New York, 1860; Life of Mary Magdalen, 1861; Sermons for the Seasons, 1864; Lectures on Christian Unity, 1866; Purgatorian Manual, 1867; Reason and Revelation, 1868; Christ and the Church, 1870; Lectures upon the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, 18—; The Vicar of Christ, 18—; The Disine Sanctuary: Series of Meditation upon the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1878; Divine Paraclete, 1880; Protestant ism and the Bible, 1880; Protestant ism and the Church, 1882; God and Reason, 1884; Watch on Calvary, 1885. *