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Francis J. Finn

Born

in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States

October 04, 1859

Died

November 02, 1928

Genre

Children's, Fiction

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Father Francis J. Finn, S.J. was born to Irish immigrant parents at St. Louis, Missouri in 1859.

As a boy, Francis was deeply impressed with Cardinal Wiseman’s famous novel of the early Christian martyrs, Fabiola. After that, religion really began to mean something to him. Eleven-year-old Francis was a voracious reader; he read the works of Charles Dickens, devouring Nicholas Nickleby and The Pickwick Papers. From his First Communion at age 12, Francis began to desire to become a Jesuit priest; but then his fervor cooled, his grades dropped, and his vocation might have been lost except for Fr. Charles Coppens. Fr. Coppens urged Francis to apply himself to his Latin, to improve it by using an all-Latin prayerbook, and to read good Catholic b ...more

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Average rating: 4.34 · 474 ratings · 44 reviews · 75 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tom Playfair: Or Making a Start (Tom Playfair #1) 4.41 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1890 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Percy Wynn: Or Making a Boy of Him (Tom Playfair #2) 4.31 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1891 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harry Dee: Or Working it Out (Tom Playfair #3) 4.34 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1892 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Claude Lightfoot: Or How the Problem Was Solved 4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1893 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fairy of the Snows 4.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1913 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Football Game: And What Came of It 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1897 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ethelred Preston: Or the Adventures of a Newcomer 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1896 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lord Bountiful 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1923 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucky Bob 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1917 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	But Thy Love and Thy Grace really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1901 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The strange darkness that has come over my life may not, cannot tell. Some terrible power imposes silence upon me, though I would give worlds to confide it to you.”
― Francis J. Finn, My Strange Friend

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