My Geigers where protestants who fled for their lives!!! No priests here! -----Original Message----- From: JYoung6180@aol.com <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, July 25, 1998 9:37 AM Subject: [GEIGER-L] GEIGER, Catholic Priest in Penn. Can anyone identify him? >A friend just passed this note along to me and I thought I would see whether >anyone on the list has any idea who this GEIGER is. He was a Jesuit Priest in >Pennsylvania. Unfortunately no first name is given for this Priest--it merely >says GEIGER in the book. The book also does not give us any exact time frame >to help further identify Father Geiger. Can anyone identify him? > >I have an old out of print book, "Old Jesuit Trails in Penn's Forest" by Leo >Gregory >Fink. On page 169 it reads, "In addition to the Jesuit missionaries from >Goshenhoppen and Haycock, other priests came later to care for the Catholics >of >the entire Lehigh Valley from Easton and Bethlehem. The most famous of these >priests were the Fathers Gustenake, Tanzer, GEIGER, and Winters. Allentown, >or >as it was often called, "Northamptontown," was thus regarded only as a mission >station from the days of Father Schneider in 1741 until the purchase of ground >for >the building of a permanent church in the year 1857." > >Joan >