Event Dime

TN Writers/TN Stories with Joe Pagetta

When:

September 12, 2026 · 10:30 AM

Where:

TN State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN

Source:

6AM City Nashville – Events

Joe Pagetta, The Apostle of Tennessee: The Indefatigable Life and Ministry of Father Aloysius Orengo \(Vanderbilt University Press\) When Nashville became a Catholic diocese in 1837, it was mostly an aspirational exercise. The few Catholics scattered throughout the state were ministered to only occasionally by missionary priests who traveled by horseback from Kentucky. It is believed that Hugh Rogan, who arrived in Middle Tennessee in 1780 after working as a surveyor for the Continental Army, di