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Benedict Joseph Fenwick (1782–1846) was an American Catholic

bishop and educator who served as Bishop of Boston from 1825 until
his death. Born in Maryland, he entered the Society of Jesus and began
his ministry in the Diocese of New York, where he eventually became
the vicar general and administrator. In 1817, he became the president
of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. Months later, Ambrose
Maréchal, Archbishop of Baltimore, sent him to St. Mary's Church in
Charleston, South Carolina, to resolve a longstanding schism. In 1825, Fenwick became
the bishop of Boston, during a period of rapid growth of the city's Catholic population
due to Irish immigration. Intense nativism and anti-Catholicism culminated with the
burning of the Ursuline Convent in 1834, threats against Fenwick's life, and the
formation of the Montgomery Guards. He established numerous churches, charitable
institutions, newspapers, and schools, including The Pilot in 1829 and the College of the
Holy Cross in 1843. (Full article...)

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A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) is a French adventure short film
directed by Georges Méliès and released on 1 September 1902. Inspired by a wide
variety of sources, including Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon
and its 1870 sequel Around the Moon, the silent film follows a group of
astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the
Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar
inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. Its ensemble cast of
French theatrical performers is led by Méliès himself as the main character,
Professor Barbenfouillis. The film features the overtly theatrical style for which
Méliès became famous. In an iconic shot, the astronomers' capsule hits the Man
in the Moon in the eye, a visual pun on the expression dans l'œil (literally 'in the
eye'), the French equivalent of the English 'bullseye'.

Film credit: Georges Méliès

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