Father Arnold Damen, SJ Traditional first at St

first at St

Josephine founded a congregation of young women to live like nuns in the spirit of St

he apprenticed as a gofer

An Alley in Chicago

Pope Saint John is known in Italy as “Il Papa Buono

Father Arnold Damen, SJ Traditional first at StFather Arnold Damen, SJ (1815 1890)Any denizen of Chicago wont have to go far to come across the name Damen. It is not only the name of one of Chicagos longest thoroughfares, running from Andersonville to the south of Bridgeport, but is a stop on nearly all of Chicagos color coded el lines. And yet few realize that the man behind the name was a pioneer, missionary and visionary responsible for great institutions of learning and spearheading the long