Father Arnold Damen, SJ Traditional the soldiers slashed his feet

the soldiers slashed his feet soles with knives and forced him to walk to his execution in the cemetery

Ohio in 1931

struggled and fought the good fight and now dwells

racial injustice

The Archangel Gabriel

Father Arnold Damen, SJ Traditional the soldiers slashed his feetFather 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