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Thomas Joseph Shahan
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Thomas Joseph Shahan (September 11, 1857 – March 9, 1932) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the rector of the Catholic University of America.
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It is the low-grade civilization of the steppes of Turkestan made permanent on the former site of supreme Hellenic refinement of life and of Christian sublimity of teaching and virtue. And it is universally admitted that only a recolonization from Europe can restore its original felicitous conditions.
Asia Minor (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
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