By: Ardis E. Parshall - October 17, 2014 Patrick Michael Cushnahan was ordained a priest on his 32nd birthday in 1881. He immediately left his native Ireland for California, where the San Francisco archdiocese assigned him to Ogden. Father Cushnahan devoted the rest of his life to ministering to the Catholics – to anyone who needed him, really – of Utah. In 1881, Cushnahan found only a handful of Catholics in Ogden, including a few...
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