Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Burke, Rev Maurice Francis
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Rev. Maurice Francis BURKE, Pastor of the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Joliet; was 
born in County Limerick, Ireland, May 5, 1845, when but a child, he accompanied his 
parents to this country ; they came directly to Chicago when about 18 years old, he 
entered the old University of St. Mary's of the Lake in Chicago; previously to this, he 
had taken a commercial course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Chicago; in 1866, 
he went to Rome and spent nine years as a student in the American College; he was ordained 
a priest on the 22d of May, 1875, by Cardinal Patrizi, Vicar General of Rome, under Pope 
Pius IX, after which he returned to Chicago, previously, however, spending a few months in 
traveling in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Ireland; soon after his return, he 
was appointed Assistant Pastor of St. Mary's Church in Chicago, and remained as such until 
his appointment as Pastor of St. Mary's Church, Joliet, April 27, 1878.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

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