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Preston, Thomas Scott

clergyman, author, was born July 23, 1824, in Hartford, Conn. He was a Roman catholic clergyman, but prior to 1849 in orders in the episcopal church. From 1881 he was a domestic prelate of the papal household with the title of monsignore. He was the author of Protestantism and the Bible; Reason and Revelation; Christ and the Church; The Ark of the Covenant; Sermons for the Seasons; Life of St. Mary Magdalene; Life of St. Vincent de Paul; Christian Unity; and Purgatorian Manual. He died in 1891.