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Title: The Catholic churches of New York City, with sketches of their history and lives of the present pastors : with an introduction on the early history of Catholicity on the island, and lives of the most reverend archbishops and bishops
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
Subjects: Catholic Church Catholic Church Church buildings
Publisher: New York : L.G. Goulding
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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sures; and the mother of theGracchi did not show her sons with more pride, as thedearest jewels of her heart, than the Rev. Mv. Farrellydoes his bright pupils of St. James pai-ish, in whosesuccess in and beyond school he is so deeply interested. Not only in his own parish is he thus devoted to edu-cation. There is scarcely a Catholic college or academyin New York in which medals have not been given by thepastor of St. James to stimulate the pupils to excellence. With a buoyant disposition, cheered by the devotedaffection of his flock, who know his fidelity and char-ity, the Rev. Mr. FaiTelly does not show the effect ofhis nearly quarter of a century of earnest labor inNew York City; yet it has told on liis health, and he isno longer as robust and vigorous as of old. Infirmitiesand disease not easily eradicated from the system arenow struggling for mastery. He is not a priest whomthe diocese can without pain see retire on account of illhealth, and all long for his complete restoration.
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CHURCH OF SAINT JEROME. ALEXANDER AVENUE AND ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINTH STREET. THE Catholics of Mott Haven had no church oftheir own till the Most Rev. Archbishop )\Ic-Closkey, in 1870, commissioned a young priest, who liaddisplayed sterling qualities while curate at the Church ofthe Immaculate Conception, to proceed to that point ofthe city. Entering his parish with the determination to laborearnestly, if God in his providence gave the increase,ascribing all the glory to Him, the Rev. Mr. Hughesplaced his parish under the protection of the great Fatherof the Chmch, the ornament of the priesthood, the studentof Holy Scripture, whose Latin version, the Vulgate, hasbeen adopted by om- Holy Mother — St. Jerome. Hewas a great saint, a holy man, of decided character,renouncing the world and retiring to solitude and studyin the Holy Land; a stem opponent of error, a vigorousdefender of the truth, an admirable director, a model ofthe piiesthood. The new pastor at once rented the Market

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