Isaac Hecker
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Isaac Thomas Hecker, CSP, was a noted American convert to the Catholic Church who became a Catholic priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious congregation for men.
Father Isaac Hecker
Hecker in 1887
Brook Farm
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Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States
Isaac Hecker
…credit to his prayerful mother, and remained so amid all the reading and agitating in which he engaged. Having grown into young manhood, he joined the Brook Farm movement, and he tarried in that colony some six months. Shortly after leaving the Brook Farm in 1844, Hecker was baptized into the Roman Catholic…
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George Ripley founded Brook Farm based on Transcendental ideals.
Brook Farm was reorganized to follow the work of Charles Fourier.
November 7, 1846, issue of The Harbinger, printed at Brook Farm