Isaac Hecker, the son of a New York baker, spent his searching youth among the Transcendentalists at Brook Farm before converting to Catholicism in 1844. His disciple Walter Elliott traces his inner life, his novitiate in Europe, his failure to remain a Redemptorist and his founding of the Paulist Fathers to bring the faith to American Protestants.
The 1891 biography whose French translation helped spark the Americanism controversy, rich in Hecker’s own letters. Download the free EPUB.