Diary and Visitation Record of the Rt. Rev. Francis Patrick Kenrick: Administrator and Bishop of Philadelphia, 1830-1851, Later, Archbishop of Baltimore |
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August Bellefonte Bishop blessed Brownsville built Catholic Herald celebrated Mass cemetery Chambersburg chapel charge Chrism church of St church St Clearfield Conewago confirmed one hundred congregation County Creek diocese eighth day entry faithful Father feast fifth day fifty fourteenth day fourth day Francis Xavier Friendsville gave Confirmation gave the Sacrament German Harrisburg Herzog Holy Trinity invocation of St James James Bradley John Hughes John O'Reilly John the Evangelist Joseph July June living Mary's church McSherrystown Michael Michael Curran miles distant morning Newry nineteenth day ninth day o'clock October pastor Patrick Patrick's church Peter Philadelphia Pittsburg place called Pottsville preached priest received Holy Communion Sacrament of Confirmation second day Sept September seventh day sixteenth day Society of Jesus Stillinger Sunday Susquehanna County thirteenth day thirty town Township trustees twelfth day twentieth day twenty twenty-second day twenty-seventh day twenty-sixth day twenty-third day Venango County Vicar
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Page 224 - Beloved Children: In the critical circumstances in which you are placed, I feel it my duty to suspend the exercises of public worship in the Catholic Churches which still remain, until it can be resumed with safety, and we can enjoy our constitutional right to worship God according to the dictates of our conscience. I earnestly conjure you to practice unalterable patience under the trials to which it has pleased Divine Providence to subject you; and remember that affliction will serve to purify us...
Page 77 - ... and comfort of the sick and afflicted, and entitle them to the warmest thanks and gratitude of the whole community, which has been benefited by their labors. Resolved, That this body, in parting from the Sisters of Charity, regret that the rules and habits of the Order to which the Sisters belong, do not admit the acceptance of any reward, as it would give them pleasure to bestow such a testimonial as might serve partially to express the grateful feelings which they entertain. Resolved, That...
Page 57 - 1 give and bequeath all my real ^ estate, to wit, &c. to a Roman Catholic priest that shall succeed me in this said place, to be entailed to him and his successors, in trust and for the use herein mentioned, in succession forever, &.c.
Page 223 - State [Porter] had arrived in the city, and had proclaimed what is called martial law, made 4•2 the threat that the military would use arms to quiet the mob. During the days that followed, numerous attempts were made to burn this church [St. John's], also St. Mary's and St. Philip's. It was the design of many to burn every [Catholic] church in the city. Threats were made also against the priests, who, on this account, wore no clerical dress, remained in hiding, or went out of the city. Fright and...
Page 225 - July the fourth day. They who call themselves " Natives " paraded through the streets carrying banners, on which were represented the figures of an open Bible and a dead serpent. The word was passed through the streets that this symbolized the power of the Roman Church, now utterly extinct.
Page 66 - ... was brought to the church of the Most Holy Trinity, with great funeral pomp. The free masons (commonly so called) were making a great display in honor of their [departed] brother. They wore a uniform vesture about the neck, were decked out with gems [medals or pins], and walked in public procession. When I saw them coming into the church thus adorned, I refused to go on with the [burial] rite of the Church, and the body was buried without the presence of a priest.
Page 57 - ... trust, for the use herein mentioned, in succession, forever; and that the said priest, for the time being, shall strictly and faithfully say four masses each and every year, forever, viz: one for the soul of the Rev.
Page 130 - Bishops. ..in the last Provincial Council of Baltimore (1833), granted to each other the right to exercise faculties, when traveling (outside their respective dioceses), this right extending also to the priests traveling with them. The Sacrament of Confirmation, however, I administered, presuming the permission of the Bishop (Dubois of NY); for, to the present time, he has not been able to reach this part of his diocese. Moreover, I have written to him informing him of what I did.
Page 176 - Bishop, Francis Patrick Kenrick, Bishop of Arath and Coadjutor of the Bishop of Philadelphia and his successor, or to the Bishop that may be appointed for the western diocese of Pennsylvania and his successor, when such appointment shall be made, in trust forever, for the support and use of the Roman Catholick clergy duly appointed by said Bishop or Bishops or their successors, according to...
Page 132 - Irish families along this same public trail,22° and yet more German families, away from the road about two miles, in the woods, in a place which they call Germany. Some of these people have lived hidden away here for fifteen years : during that time they never saw a minister of religion.