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Francis Clement Kelley
Francis Clement Kelley (1870–1948) was a Canadian-born American Roman Catholic bishop and author. He founded the Catholic Church Extension Society, which aimed to support missions in rural and impoverished areas of the United States. Kelley wrote several books, including "The Last Battle of the Gods" and "The City and the World," often focusing on themes of faith, Catholicism, and social issues. He also served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Oklahoma City-Tulsa from 1924 until his death in 1948.
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CHAPTER I THE LADY OF THE TREE The man lay in the tall grass. Behind him the wall of the Killimaga estate, from its beginning some fifty yards to his left, stretched away to his right for over a thousand feet. Along the road which ran almost parallel with the wall was the remnant of what had once been a great woods; yearly the county authorities determined to cut away its thick undergrowth—and yearly...
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THE CITY AND THE WORLD FATHER DENFILI, old and blind, telling his beads in the corner of the cloister garden, sighed. Father Tomasso, who had brought him from his confessional in the great church to the bench where day after day he kept his sightless vigil over the pond of the goldfish, turned back at the sound, then, seeing the peace of Father Denfili's face, thought he must have fancied the...
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