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Richard Cain Madden, a Roman Catholic priest and author, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to John J. Madden and Elizabeth Catherine Cain Madden in 1919. He attended St. Joseph’s Parochial School and Bishop England High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Charleston in 1932. Madden attended St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, and Suplican Seminary in Washington, D.C. He also received a Master of Arts degree in history from Catholic University of America in 1938. Emmet Walsh, bishop of Charleston, ordained Madden in 1938. From 1938-1946, Madden’s assignments included assistant pastor at St. Paul the Apostle, Spartanburg; St. Mary, Our Lady of Ransom, Georgetown; and Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Charleston. Madden was also the administrator of St. Frances de Sales, Columbia. He was the first resident pastor at St. Andrew, Myrtle Beach in 1946 and pastor of St. John the Beloved, Summerville, from 1973 until his retirement in 1985. Pope John XXIII named him Domestic Prelate in 1962. He authored Catholics in South Carolina: A Record, “John England,” an article printed in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and articles relative to the Diocese of Charleston printed in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastiques, New Catholic Encyclopedia, Catholic Historical Review, Records of the American Historical Society, and Reportorum Novum. Monsignor Madden died in 1988. He is buried at St. Lawrence Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.

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