Shahan
THOMAS JOSEPH, an American educator; born in Manchester, N. H., Sept. 11, 1857; was educated at the American College of Rome and at the Roman Seminary; studied history at the University of Berlin in 1889-1891; and was ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in 1882. He became Professor of Church History and Patrology at the Catholic University of America in 1891.
From 1905-1915 he was associate editor of the Catholic Encyclopædia. His publications include "The Blessed Virgin in the Catacombs" (1892); "Giovanni Baptista de Rossi" (1900); "The Beginnings of Christianity" (1903); "St. Patrick in History" (1905); etc., and special articles on church history and archæology in periodicals.