The American Catholic Almanac

**What do Buffalo Bill, John F. Kennedy, Jim Thorpe, Fulton Sheen, and Andy Warhol, and have in common?**  
  
They're all Catholics who have shaped America. From the Revolutionary War to Notre Dame Football, this page-a-day history celebrates Catholics' influence on American culture and politics. In 365 fascinating, funny, uplifting, and unlikely tales, this unique devotional shows how the Catholic faith has intersected with public life for over 400 years.  
  *Did you know…*  
¯ The first immigrant to arrive in America via Ellis Island was a 15-year-old Irish-Catholic girl?  
¯ Al Capone's tombstone reads, "My Jesus Mercy"  
¯ Andrew Jackson credited America's victory in the Battle of New Orleans to the prayers of the Virgin Mary and the Ursuline Sisters?  
¯ Five Franciscans died defending the Church's teachings on marriage in seventeenth-century Georgia?  
¯ Jack Kerouac died wanting to be known as a beat poet *and* a Catholic?  
¯ Catholic missionaries lived in Virginia 36 years before the English settled Jamestown?Read less