Father White

Father Andrew White (1579-1656) was born in England and schooled at colleges in England, Spain and France. After he became a Jesuit priest, he taught at two universities in France, coming secretly to England many times to visit Catholic friends. He went to work for Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, who needed his help finding Catholic families to settle in his new colony, Maryland, where Father White wanted the Jesuits to establish a Catholic mission. In November 1633, he, his fellow priests and nine servants met the ship Ark at the Isle of Wight, just before it sailed for the New World. Father White kept a journal of this voyage called, Voyage into Maryland, which describes what life was like for the colonists on their four-month voyage and during the first months of their settlement. English colony on Barbados. They repaired the Ark, and once again set sail for the coast of North America. After stops in Barbados and Virginia, they landed, on March 25, 1664, near the mouth of the St. Mary's River. Father White celebrated Mass that day to thank God for their safe landing, thus becoming the first Catholic priest to offer Mass in the original 13 colonies. They made a treaty with the Yaocomico Indians for land at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, and built a new town called St. Mary's City. Father White studied the Native American languages, wrote a dictionary,and translated Catholic prayers into the Indian language. His mission ended in 1645 when Richard Ingle and his fellow Protestants raided St. Mary's, captured the Catholic priests and leaders of the colony, and brought them back to England, where he was jailed until a trial in January 1648 acquitted him of wrongdoing and released him. He died in England 8 years later. More

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