1866. Pise had a career of such prominence that it was unusual he was not made a bishop. One biographer suggests that his friendship with Catholic intellectual Orestes Brownson may have been the problem, at a time when the American Church was turning away from intellectualism as a result of growing Irish domination. Alternatively, the same biographer suggests that it may have been an anti-Irish, anti-Jesuit streak in Ambrose Maréchal, Bishop of Baltimore, which led him to suppress this logical cap to Pise's career. Bibliography Partial list: History of the Church from Its Establishment to the Present Century. (1827–1830) Father Rowland: a North American Tale. Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1829, 1831) Dublin: (1837, 1846) (a response to the anti-Catholic novel Father Clement: A Roman Catholic Story by Grace Kennedy, published in 1823) The Indian Cottage, a Unitarian Story. Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1831) The Pleasures of Religion and Other Poems, (1833) (dedicated to Washington Irving) Letters to Ada, From Her Brother-In-Law. Harper and Brothers (1834) Address Delivered Before the Philodemic Society of Georgetown College, July 25, 1837, 1837 Zenosius; or The Pilgrim Convert. New York: Edward Dunigan (1845) (his last novel) Christianity and the Church. (1850) First Flow'ret of the Desert Wild (1851) [hymn for Saint Rose of Lima]. Let the Deep Organ Swell the Lay (1851) [hymn for Saint Cecilia]. Both hymns are in the "Appendix" to the 1851 New York edition of Edward Caswall's Lyra Catholica, pp. 422, 427. Saint Ignatius and His First Companions, 1894. References Further reading Brann, Rev. Henry A. Rev. Charles Constantine Pise, The Only Chaplain in the Congress of the United States in Historical Records and Studies Vol. II: 354-357 (1901). Julian, John (1907/1957), A Dictionary of Hymnology, reprint, New York: Dover Moffat, Sister M. Eulalia Teresa. Charles Constantine Pise, chapter in Historical Records and Studies, United States Catholic Historical Society Vol.XX:64-98 (1931). Purcell, Richard J. DAB (Dictionary of American Biography, year and volume number unknown). 1801 births 1866 deaths 19th-century American Jesuits Chaplains of the United States Senate American poets of Italian descent Writers from Annapolis, Maryland American Roman Catholic poets Catholics from Maryland Philodemic Society members Georgetown College (Georgetown University) alumni