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as he wished it to be known that he died as he lived, an unreconstructed Confederate.
Cardinal Gibbons holds Father O'Keefe's memory in the highest esteem and says that he always did the work of two priests.
At one time Father O'Keefe, besides performing his pastoral duties, acted as superintendent of parochial schools of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and as editor of the Catholic Mirror.
Death found Father O'Keefe engrossed with great plans for the future, including the building of a magnificent Catholic high school at Towson, which would rival any institution of the kind in the country.
Father O'Keefe modeled his parochial school after the public schools, using, whenever possible, the same textbooks.
The only difference was that Christian doctrine is taught in the former school.
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