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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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to duty as teacher or prefect in one of thecolleges of the order or pursues at once the studiesMhich are to prepare him for priestly ordination. Father Fitzpatrick received holy orders apparentlyabout the year 18G8. In that year he was stationed atthe Church of St. Joseph, Troy, as assistant pastor, andacquired general esteem by his modesty and zeal, as 554 CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. well as liis devotedness to every duty of a priest. In1870 he was appointed vice-president of St. Jolms Col-lege, Fordham, and as Prefect of Discipline had the gen-eral super\ision of the students. This responsible positionhe filled for several years. The prosperity of the collegeduring this period attests his fitness for the administrationof a large educational estabHshment, and his knowledgeof the young. In 1875 he was again engaged in mis-sionary work, at his old parish in Troy, and in 1877 wasselected to act as parish priest of Our Lady of Mercy,where he now exercises the ministry most acceptably.
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CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF THE SEVEN DOLORS. PITT STUEET. CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF THE SEVEN DOLORS(OUR LADY OF SORROWS). PITT STREET. THIS church, one of the most recently erected forthe use of the German Cathohcs of the city, isdue to the zeal of the Capuchin Fathers, who are abranch of the great Franciscan family. They were nostrangers in this country, having labored in Nova Scotia,)\Iaine, and Louisiana, in the days of French and Spanishcolonial rule, and gave an early bishop in the South,as well as in our day an archbishop in the BritishProvinces. The recent establishment of the order in this countryis due to two secular priests—Rev. Messrs. Haas andFrey—who came to this country in 1856, with a viewof forming a community under the Capuchin rule. BisliopHenni of Milwaukee welcomed them to his diocese. TheGeneral of the order deputed Father Anthony Maria toadmit them, and direct them during their novitiate. TheConvent of Calvary in Wisconsin arose in Fond du LacCounty, and God blessed

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