Ave Maria Press

Daniel Hudson entered the Novitiate at Notre Dame on March 7th, 1871; was professed March 19, 1872; and was ordained with John A. Zahm at Notre Dame by Bishop Dwenger on June 4, 1875. Almost immediately, Father Sorin put Hudson in charge of The Ave Maria as editor. It was Hudson's first obedience, and the only one he ever received. The Ave Maria had been founded by Father Sorin in 1865 as a weekly periodical whose principal object was to increase devotion to the Blessed Virgin....

For fifty-five years Father Hudson remained the editor of this Catholic weekly. By his fine literary taste, his delicate discrimination, his cultivation of the best Catholic authors, he became -- it is no exaggeration to say it -- the leading Catholic editor of the country. Although he scarcely ever left the campus, his fame was national, and the greatest Catholics of America, bishops, priests and laymen, beat a path to his rooms on the second floor of the Presbytery.

-- The Story of Notre Dame

The following is a list of reprints from "The Ave Maria". As these articles were sent to us and after reading through the different articles, we had to continually remind ourselves that these articles were written about a century ago. We know that you will find them both interesting as well as thought provocative. Enjoy!!


ØAdvent ØAfter Ten Years ØThe Alleged Crimes of St. Clotilda
ØAllocution of Pius IX, by Divine Providence, Pope ØAmerica's First Abolitionist: Bartolomé de las Casas ØThe Angel Guardians
ØAngel Visitants to Earth ØAnglicanism and Episcopacy ØAnnals of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
ØAn Apostasy with a Moral ØThe Apostle of the North: St. Ansgar ØThe Apparition at Pontmain
ØAn Apparition of the Blessed Virgin ØAre Protestants Catholics? ØThe Assumption
ØThe Ave Regina Coelorum ØThe Avenger of Agincourt: St. Fiacre ØThe Beautiful Home Life of the Mexicans
ØThe Beauty of Poverty ØThe Best of All Devotions: Daily Mass ØThe Bible in English Literature
ØThe Birthday of Mary ØThe Birthplace of Our Savior ØBlessed Virgin and the Twilight Hour
ØThe Blessed Virgin in the Breviary I: The Espousals of the Blessed Virgin ØThe Blessed Virgin in the Breviary II: The Purification in the Temple ØThe Blessed Virgin in the Beviary III: The Feast of the Annunciation
ØThe Blessed Virgin in the Breviary IV: The Feast of Help of Christians ØThe Blessed Virgin in the Breviary V: The Feast of the Visitation ØThe Blessed Virgin in the Breviary VI: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
ØThe Blessed Virgin in the Breviary VII: Feast of the Birth of Mary ØThe Blessed Virgin in the Breviary VIII: Her Presentation in the Temple ØThe Blessed Virgin in the Breviary IX: Feast of the Immaculate Conception
ØThe Blessing of Church Bells ØChats with Good Listeners: Some Suggestions ØChats with Good Listeners: The Little Joys
ØChats with Good Listeners: The Joy of Religion ØChats with Good Listeners: Beauty of Money ØChats with Good Listeners: Of One Just Dead
ØChats with Good Listeners: "The Rest is With God" ØChats with Good Listeners: The Model Catholic ØChats with Good Listeners: The Plain Truth
ØChats with Good Listeners: Some Practical Suggestions for Christmas ØChats with Good Listeners: Toward the End of the Year ØChats with Good Listeners: The Ideal Friend
ØChats with Good Listeners: At the End of the Year ØA Candidate for Canonization: Francesco Possenti ØA Cardinal Who Opposed Napoleon: Cdl. Hercules Consalvi
ØThe Catholic Missions in New Caledonia ØA Catholic Realist - Cecilia Böhl de Faber ØCatholic Teaching in Medieval Church Windows
ØThe Chains of Columbus ØA Chat with "The Churchman" Concerning the Church ØChristmas Carols of the Olden Time
ØChristmas Day ØChristmas Eve in a Canadian Lumber Shanty ØA Christmas Homily of St. Leo the Great
ØChristmastide Voices ØChurch in the New Era: An Outsider's Prophecy ØThe Church's Care for the Dead in Early Times
ØA City Dedicated to Mary: Perth, Scotland ØThe City of St. Helen: Colchester, England ØThe City of the Mother of God: Antwerp, Belgium
ØThe Communion of Saints ØConcerning Collections ØConsistency and Common Sense
ØA Conspirator under Queen Elizabeth ØA Conversion by Means of the Rosary ØThe Dancing Pilgrimage of Echternach
ØA Daughter of St. Francis ØDay of Wrath--The General Judgment: The General Judgment ØA Day with Don Bosco
ØDeath Jewels ØA Debt Sometimes Ignored ØA Devotion for Passiontide: The Way of the Cross
ØThe Devotion of All Devotions ØDevotion to Our Lady among the Carmelites ØDevotion to St. Ann
ØDevotion to the Blessed Virgin at Oxford and Cambridge ØDevotion to the Holy Face ØThe Dignity of the Blessed Virgin
ØDr. Johnson at His Prayers ØA Dramatic Baptism in Japan ØThe Dutch Shakespeare: Joost van den Vondel
ØA Duty in November ØThe Early Christian Conception of Heaven ØEmmanuel
ØEspronceda (Spanish Poet) -- With Variations ØThe Evil of Greatest Magnitude: Mortal Sin ØFathers of the Church on Fasting
ØA Favor of Our Lady of the Rosary ØFavors of Our Queen: A Penitent's Story ØFavors of St. Joseph
ØThe Feast of Joy: Easter Sunday ØThe Feast of the Holy Cross ØA Feast of the Waning Year: Most Holy Redeemer
ØThe First Priest in Korea ØA Flower of Carmel: St. Teresa of Avila ØFlowers of St Patrick
ØFootprints of the Admiral: His Love of Mary ØFr. Bridgett, C.SS.R ØFr. Ignatius Spencer: Convert & Passionist
ØA Friendship of Saints: Sts. Basil & Gregory ØThe Garden ØThe Glory of Mary in Heaven
ØGod's Condescending Love ØThe Golden Silence ØThe Golden Throne
ØGood Ste. Anne de Beaupré ØA Great Example: Sir Stuart Knill ØHandel and Bach
ØHandy Prayers ØThe Heart Immaculate ØThe Helpers of the Holy Souls
ØThe History of Our Patronal Feast: The Immaculate Conception ØHistory of a Shrine in Jerusalem ØThe History of the Christmas Tree
ØThe Holy Robe of Our Savior ØHouse-Blessing on the Feast of the Epiphany ØHow Many Were Added to the Fold
ØHow Mary is Our Mother ØA Hundred Years Ago: A Glance at the Former Position of English and Irish Catholics Ø"I am the State": Did Louis XIV Ever Say So?
ØThe Immaculate Conception ØIn the Land of Miracles: Lourdes, France ØIn the Land of Saint Fiacre
ØIndividualism versus the Church ØThe Interpretation of Holy Scripture ØIreland at the Coming of St. Patrick
ØIrish Catholic Landmarks in Rome ØAn Irish "Pattern" ØJoan of Arc: Her Trial, Death, and Vindication
ØJulie de Chateaubriand ØThe Last Abbot of Westminster ØThe Last Days of Henri Lasserre
ØLetter from the Pope: Pope Pius IX ØA Life Well Lived: Maria Felicia Orsini ØLife of Sister Mary Martha Fontanier
ØLight from the Liturgy: The Feast of the Visitation ØLiturgical Notes on the Assumption ØThe Lot of the Peasant in the Middle Age
ØLove Your Enemies: A Peculiarly Christian Virtue ØMade a Christian in a Snow Storm ØThe Madonna of Santa Maria Maggiore
ØMary Immaculate in America ØMary, Mother of Jesus ØMary in the Calendar: Our Lady's Autumn Feasts
ØMary in the Calendar: Our Lady on All Saints' Day ØMary in the Calendar: Rosary Sunday ØMary in the Calendar: Our Lady in Advent
ØMary in the Calendar: Our Lady at Christmas ØMary our Mother ØMary Our Mother: By Rev. Arthur Barry O'Neill, C.S.C
ØMary Our Refuge ØThe Materials of the Little Office ØMaundy-Thursday in Rome
ØMemories of Lourdes ØThe Memory of Mentana ØThe Miracles in France
ØThe Month of the Sacred Heart ØMoral Miracles of Lourdes ØMother Catherine Aurélie Caouette
ØMother of God ØMotives of Devotion to the Blessed Virgin ØMr. Campbell's Unsplitable Church
ØMusings in Westminster Abbey ØThe National Poet of French Canada ØThe Nativity of the Blessed Virgin: What the Fathers Say
ØThe Nature of Liturgical Prayer ØNew Models of Virtue: St. Peter Claver & St. John Berchmans ØA New Saint of the Holy Rosary - Alphonsus Rodriguez
ØA Noble Life's Work: Cardinal Lavigerie Ø"Noblesse Oblige" ØNominal Respectability
ØNotre Dame de Brebières ØNotre Dame des Trois Epis ØNotre Dame du Salut
ØThe Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary ØThe Old Cathedral: St Marys in San Francisco, CA ØOld Testament Types of Mary
ØOn Toil and Toilers ØOn the Steps of the Royal Exchange ØOnce Famous Shrine - Our Lady of Walsingham
ØOne Aspect of Faith ØOne Need: Enthusiasm ØOne Who Gave His Life
ØOrigin of a Widespread Devotion ØOur Lady, Tower of David ØOur Lady of Angels
ØOur Lady Of Einsiedeln ØOur Lady of Mentorella ØOur Lady of Peace
ØOur Lady of Raab ØOur Lady of Walsingham ØOur Lady of the Hermits
ØOur Lady the Type of the Church ØOur Lady's Feasts and the Church's Trials Ø"Our Lady's Island" and Its Founder
ØOur Mother ØOut of the Crucible ØThe Paschal Candle
ØThe Passing of Materialism ØThe Passion Play of Ammergau ØA Patron for Lent: St Francis of Paola
ØThe Pillar of the Scourging ØThe Poets and Our Lady's Titles ØPope Leo XIII on the Holy Rosary
ØThe Pope's Astronomer: Fr Francisco Denza ØThe Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary ØPrice of Everlasting Glory
ØThe Price of Redemption ØThe Prisoners of Holy Cross ØThe Proof of Miracles
ØProtection of our Blessed Mother ØThe Quality of Mercy ØReadings from Remembered Books
ØReason Falters, but Faith is Sure ØA Recent Favor of Our Lady of Pontmain ØReligion and the Labor Question
ØReligion in Russia ØReligion the Guardian of Human Life ØA Reminiscence of Cardinal Lavigerie
ØThe Rosary a Mystical Ladder ØThe Rosary in Art ØRosary of Volney
ØRosslyn Chapel Scotland ØThe Sacred Heart at the End of the Century ØSacred Music
ØSacredness of Home ØA Sainted Pastor of Our Century: Jean Baptiste Vianney, the Curé of Ars ØThe Saints: And Influence of Sanctity on Civilization
ØThe Saints of Dante ØThe Salve Regina ØSantiago (Spain): The Tomb of St James
ØSaved by a Scapular ØSavonarola's Devotion to the Blessed Virgin ØSayings and Stories of the Blessed Curé of Ars
ØA Scandal and a Stumbling Block ØA School of Sanctity ØThe Second Joyful Mystery
ØThe Secret of Sanctity ØThe Ship of "Good Hope" -- An Easter Story ØThe Shrine of Roc-Amadour
ØThe Shrine of St Edward the Confessor ØThe Shrines of Switzerland ØThe Sign of Our Redemption
ØThe Sodality's "Strike the Cymbal" ØSome Catholic Customs in the Tyrol ØSome Catholic Irish Traits
ØSome English Shrines of Our Lady ØSome Lady Churches of Old London ØSomething about Purgatory
ØA Son of St Dominic: Jean-Baptiste-Henri Lacordaire ØA Soul from Purgatory ØSt. Grallon's Chapel
ØSt John Damascene on the Death of the Blessed Virgin ØSt Joseph Protector and Guardian of the Church ØSt. Luke and the Holy House
ØSt Nerses the Armenian and Our Lady ØStars of Our Lady; Or, Glances Through the Calendar St. Gertrude ØThe Story of a Miraculous Picture
ØSuffering Without Faith ØA Summary of Catholic Doctrines ØThe Sweetness of the Mother of God
ØThoughts for the Eve of November ØThe "Thoughts" of Joubert ØThoughts on Our Blessed Lady
ØThe Three Archangels in Art - by Eliza Allen Starr ØThrough the Rosary ØThe Tomb of Our Lady
ØThe Transfiguration of Our Lord ØThe Treasure of Argenteuil ØThe Treasures of the Breviary
ØTwo Errors Aptly Illustrated ØTwo Lay-Apostles of the Seventeeth Century: Clement and Beaumais ØTwo Sorts of Humility
ØThe Two-Wived Count of Gleichen ØAn Unfamiliar Saint: St. Rosalie ØAn Unpublished Letter of Christopher Columbus
ØA Valiant Mother ØVenial Sin, a Real Iniquity ØThe Victory of Love
ØThe Virginity of Holy Mary ØA Visit to the Curé of Ars ØThe World at Christ's Coming
ØThe Year of Mary: The Magnificat ØThe Year of Mary: Assumption of Mary ØThe Year of Mary: Nativity of Mary
ØThe Year of Mary: The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple ØThe Yellowstone Wonderland ØYouthful Devotion to Our Lady
ØYouthful Devotion to Our Lady