Charles Constantine Pise Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS18
This collection contains the papers of Charles Constantine Pise, a Jesuit who left the Society in 1821 and eventually became Senate Chaplain for the 22nd US Congress in 1832. Materials include correspondence, travel papers, writings, and miscellaneous documents.
The Charles Constantine Pise Papers are on deposit at Georgetown University and are the property of the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus. As stewards of the Archives, the Georgetown University Library’s Booth Family Center for Special Collections is responsible for managing access to the material based on policies set forth by the USA East Province. Researchers may view these materials in the Reading Room of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. General policies for using Special Collections can be found here.
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1. All Archives materials dated or bearing solely on events occurring before January 1, 1940, shall be open for review unless otherwise restricted, subject to Library policies and procedures.
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Charles Constantine Pise (1801-1866) was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and enrolled at Georgetown College in 1812. In 1815 he entered the Society of Jesus and was one of the scholastics chosen for training in Rome in 1820 (alongside Frs. William McSherry, James Ryder, John Smith, Thomas Mulledy, and George Fenwick); by 1821, however, he had left the Society and returned to the US to care for his mother. Fr. Pise eventually resumed his religious studies at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he also taught classes in rhetoric and poetry. In 1825 he was ordained as a diocesan priest and worked in Washington DC at St. Patrick’s and, in 1832, served as Senate Chaplain for the 22nd US Congress. By 1835 he had moved to St. Joseph’s and then St. Peter’s in New York, after which he helped found the Church of St. Charles Borromeo in Brooklyn (1849). He stayed there as pastor until his death in 1866.
0.20 Cubic Feet ( 1 box)
English
Latin
Gift of Clara Buchanan McGinnis, 1912.
This collection was rehoused into acid-free boxes and folders in March 2024.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository