Life of the Very Rev. Felix De Andreis, C. M., first superior of the Congregation of the Mission in the United States, and vicar general of upper Louisiana / chiefly from sketches written by Joseph Rosati [e Giovanni Battista Semeria ; testo tradotto in inglese da Francis J. Burlando ; edizione corretta ed accresciuta di Thomas Finney] ; with an introduction by John J. Kain.

De Andreis, Felice, CM ; De Andreis, Felix, CM ; Andreis, Felix de, CM.

Scrive P. John Rybolt, CM: The first work on De Andreis was done by his confrere Joseph Rosati. Rosati's manuscript was translated into Italian and augmented through the addition of new material by J. B. Semeria, an Oratorian priest living in Turin. This Italian version was never published, probably because of Rosati's death. J. Francis Burlando, C.M., translated the text into English and had it published in 1861. To it Burlando added a valuable chapter on the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. In it he concentrated on the Vincentian contributions to the story (Sketches of the Life of the Very Rev. Felix De Andreis, First Superior of the Congregation of the Mission in the United States, and Vicar-General of the Diocese of New Orleans; With a Sketch of the Progress of the Catholic Religion in the United States, from the Beginning of the Present Century to the Year 1860. Baltimore, 1861). This work was lightly edited (probably by Thomas Finney, C.M.) and republished in Saint Louis in 1900, reprinted 1915. The editor removed the final chapter of Burlando's work. A French edition (Paris, 1895) added a new introduction and reprinted "Les Compagnons de M. Felix De Andreis" from Annales de la Congregation de la Mission 60 (1895): p. 278-95. The Italian edition (Florence, 1916) appeared without the historical chapter.