Earls, Michael

Michael Earls, S.J. (1875-1937) was a Jesuit priest, as well as a writer, poet, teacher, and administrator. The eldest of ten children, he was born in 1875 to Irish immigrant parents, Martin Earls and Mary (Shaughnessy) Earls, in Southbridge, Massachusetts, a manufacturing town in south, central Massachusetts. He attended school in Southbridge and later prepared for college at Memramcook, near St. John's New Brunswick. He entered College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. in 1893, beginning what would be a long association with one of the first Catholic colleges in the U.S., graduating with...