Dr Patrick Eugene Moriarty DD OSA was an Irish born priest, missionary, orator and educator.
He received his higher education at St. Patrick's, Carlow College, studying under the Irish Nationalist and future Bishop James Warren Doyle, OSA.
[1] Following some time in Dublin, and a brief period in Portugal as a military chaplain, and in 1835 he went to India, where he was vicar-general in the Madras mission.
Pope Gregory XVI named him Master of Sacred Theology on the basis of his missionary work in India, here he was the first Catholic Chaplain to be recognised by the British government since the reformation.
He died aged 70 on 10 July 1875 at Villanova and is buried at St Augustine's in Philadelphia.