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PISE, Charles Constantine, clergyman, born in Annapolis, Maryland, on Nov. 22, 1801; died in Brooklyn, New York, 26 May, 1866. After graduation at Georgetown college, D. C., he entered the College of the propaganda, Rome, but was obliged to leave, owing to his father's death, and completed his theological course in Mount St. Mary's seminary, Emmettsburg, at the same time teaching classes in rhetoric and poetry. He was ordained there in 1825, and appointed to a mission in Frederick, Maryland, but was transferred soon afterward to the cathedral at Baltimore. After doing missionary work for several years his health failed, and he went to Italy. He had already become recognized as the pioneer of Roman Catholic literature in the United States, and at Rome received the degree of D. D., and was made a knight of the Holy Roman Empire. On his return he was attached to St. Patrick's church in Washington. He was an intimate friend of Henry Clay, and, partly through the influence of the latter, was appointed chaplain of the United States senate, being the only Roman Catholic priest that ever held that office. The same statesman offered Dr. Pise a chair in Transylvania university; but he preferred active missionary work. He removed to New York on the invitation of Bishop Dubois, and was connected with several churches in the city, also attaining a reputation as a lecturer and preacher. He purchased Emmanuel church, Brooklyn, which became the Roman Catholic church of St. Charles Borromeo, and he assumed the pastorate of it in 1849. His works are "Father Ro{v-land," a tale in answer to "Father Clement " (Baltimore, 1829) ; "Indian Cottage, a Unitarian Story " (1829);" History of the Church from its Establishment to the Reformation" (5 vols., 1830);" The Pleasures of Religion, and other Poems" (Philadelphia, 1833) ; ', Horae Vagabunde," an account of his travels in Ireland; "Alethia, or Letters on the Truth of the Catholic Doctrines" (New York, 1843) ; "The Acts of the Apostles," a poem (1845) : "Zenosius, or the Pilgrim Convert" (1845); "Letters to Ada"; "Lives of St. Ignatius and his First Companions" (1845); " Notes on a Protestant Catechism"; "The Catholic Bride." translated from the Italian (Baltimore, 1848); and "Christianity and the Church " (1850).

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