January 29 is the anniversary of Philip H. Foley.

Father Foley was born in Chicago, IL, in 1921. He spent one year at Saint Rita’s High School there, after which he entered the Augustinian Academy, on Staten Island, NY. He was a novice at Good Counsel novitiate in New Hamburg, NY from 1942 to 1943. He spent the next four years at Saint Mary’s Hall at Villanova, PA, in collegiate studies. After graduation in 1947, he was sent to Rome for his theological studies. He was ordained to the holy priesthood there in 1950.

Father Foley returned to the United States in 1951, and taught at Saint Rita’s Hugh School in Chicago until 1955, when he was appointed to the newly-created full-time post of Director of Vocations. In 1959, he was assigned to the faculty of Tolentine College and, in 1961; he was named professor of Dogmatic theology at the Augustinian House of Theology in Saint Louis, MO. He died there suddenly on January 29, 1963, at the age of 42. He is buried in the Community plot in Chicago.

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