Description: [ALOYS MERZ OR CARL FRIEDRICH VON GERAULT]. Geschichte zweyer merkwurdigen Bekehrungen zur katholischen Religion: namlich des Herrn Thayers, eines protestantischen Ministers in Amerika, und des Herrn Johann Joseph Keidecks, eines Rabbiners in Deutschland. [Augsburg]: 1787. Very rare pamphlet on the conversion of two men to Catholicism - one, John Thayer (1755-1815), a Protestant pastor from New England and the first native New Englander to be ordained a Catholic Priest, and the second, Johann Joseph Keideck, a rabbi from Cologne, Germany. Thayer was born in Boston and attended Yale College. Following his studies, he became a Congregationalist minister and served as a chaplain during the American Revolution. While visiting Rome in 1783 he converted to Catholicism and in 1789 was ordained a Catholic priest in Paris. His priestly career was spent serving Catholic communities in Boston, Virginia, and Kentucky, and Limerick, Ireland. 8vo (16 x 10.5cm), 48pp. Library stamps to verso of title-page and verso of final leaf, some foxing and light browning throughout. Bound in paper wrappers, tears to spine. I could locate only two copies of this work in the United States.
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Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
