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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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. The church has, since 1875, had as parish priestthe Rev. Jolin Edwards, who is assisted in his arduousduties by the Rev. Patrick Malone, the Rev. John Doyle,the Rev. Denis P. OTlynn, and the Rev. EdwardSlattery. The parish schools, organized soon after the erectionof the church, have been fostered with zealous care.The boys, who number nine hundred and twenty-six, areunder the direction of seventeen lay teachers, while thegirls, who are guided by the Sisters, number elevenhundred and thirty-six. The Catholic population of theparish, by actual count in 1878, was 16,940. There are many flourishing societies connected withthe church — the Ladies Sodality of the Blessed Virgin,the Sodalities of the Holy Infancy, of the Holy Angels,of the Holy Name; the Living Rosary, Sodality of theSacred Heart of Jesus, Young Mens Immaculate Concep-tion Sodality, St. Aloysius Sodality, the Immaculate Con-ception Mutual Benefit Temperance Society, and Confer-ence of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
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CIlURGll OF TUE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. 377 REV. JOHN EDWARDS, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. THE energetic pastoi- of tlio populous parish of theImmaciihite Conception was bom in KiUaloe,in the County Ch^re, Ireland, and was baptized in thechiuch of his native place on the 12th of January, 1833. His early education w-as received in the local schools;but when the family, in the spring- of 1849, emigrated tothis country, he came to the land which figures so brightlyin the dieanis of many a youth. His father settled at Hartford, where the vounff manspent the next four )ears; then, eager to continue hisstudies, he came to New York. After three years, his wisheswere realized, by his entering the College of St. FrancisXavier. Here he became an earnest student, and so at-tracted the attention of the Fathers by liis faculty forteacliing that he was induced to take charge of one ofthe classes of the college Here he remained until the fall of 1864, when, anx-ious to complete

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