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Title: History of the Catholic church in California
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Gleeson, W. (William), 1822-1903
Subjects: Catholic Church Jesuits Franciscans Missions
Publisher: San Francisco, Printed for the author by A. L. Bancroft, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n, added to his peculiar disease,left no hope to his friends of his ultimate recovery;but in death as in life, he proved himself the faith-ful servant of God, accepting with much cheerful-ness and resignation the divine will in his regard. From the tenth of August, 1784, when he re-turned to Monterey, he sank rapidly till thetwenty-eighth of the same month (the feast of St.Augustine), when, after receiving thelast rites ofour holy religion, he calmly expired, being then inthe seventy-first year of his life, half of which hespent in the apostolic ministry, between the mis-sions of Sierra Gorda and the Californias. Heended his laborious life, says Father Palou, atthe age of seventy years nine months and fourdays, after having passed fifty-three years elevenmonths and thirteen days in religion, and thirty-five years four months and thirteen days in theapostolic ministry, during which time he per-formed the glorious actions we have seen. Helived in continual activity, occupied in virtuous
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CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CALIFORNIA. 97 and holy exercises and wonderful exertions, all di-rected to the greater honor and glory of God, andthe salvation of souls. At the moment of hisdeath he had the consolation to know that in theeight missions established in Upper California, asmany as five thousand eight hundred persons hadbeen brought to a knowledge of the faith. These,added to those of Lower California, would makethe entire number of converts close on seven thou-sand, while the estabhshment of six colonies ofSpaniards in different parts of the country, shouldbe also set down as the result of his labors. The very rare and extraordinary virtues prac-ticed by this remarkable man during the greaterpart of his life, made him be regarded by all as aperson of the most eminent sanctity. It was, in-deed, the common opinion of all that at the mo-ment of death his soul passed immediately to thekingdom of Heaven, and the remarkable cureseffected at the time would seem to be an evidenceof this. A

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