Early Life & Ministry
Keane was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, to Hugh and Fannnie (Connolly) Keane. He was one of five children, and the family immigrated to the United States when he was seven years old. He was educated at Saint Charles College, Ellicott City, Maryland, and at Saint Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. On July 2, 1866 he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore by Archbishop Martin John Spalding and was made curate of St. Patrick's Church in Washington, D.C., where he spent 12 years. He helped form both the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America and the Catholic Young Men's National Union in 1872, and the Carroll Society in 1873. He also established the Tabenacle Society in Washington that worked among poor churches throughout the United States.
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