Fifty years in Yorkville, or, Annals of the parish of StIgnatius Loyola and StLawrence O'Toole . f our ter-ritory needed and could support a church. FatherWalkers chapel supplied the needs of the children inthat part for a time; but it was evident that others be-sides the children would find a church of their own agreat convenience. Father Treanor is said to havelaid the matter before Cardinal McCloskey in the au-tumn of 1879 and induced him to establish a new par-ish. The parish of St. Monica was organized, the cor-ner stone of the church was laid in February, 1880,and the first Mass was cele
Fifty years in Yorkville, or, Annals of the parish of StIgnatius Loyola and StLawrence O'Toole . f our ter-ritory needed and could support a church. FatherWalkers chapel supplied the needs of the children inthat part for a time; but it was evident that others be-sides the children would find a church of their own agreat convenience. Father Treanor is said to havelaid the matter before Cardinal McCloskey in the au-tumn of 1879 and induced him to establish a new par-ish. The parish of St. Monica was organized, the cor-ner stone of the church was laid in February, 1880,and the first Mass was celebrated in the temporarychapel prepared five years before by Father limits were Seventy-Second to Ninety-SixthStreets, Second Avenue to the East River. Later on,Eighty-Sixth Street became the northern territory with its congested population givesabundant work for a pastor and three active is a good school with an enrollment of about onethousand children. St. Monicas is the second parishcut off from the original limits of St. Lawrences. S3 ii *iri « 1. CHAPTER X. Home Rule Complete. For ten years the Fathers of the New York andCanada Mission had been working harmoniously sideby side, some French and French-Canadians in theUnited States, and some Americans in Quebec and On-tario. But citizenship was apt to give trouble oneither side of the line. To be a member of a corpora-tion here one had to be a citizen, and Canadians whobecame citizens, if called back, would find themselvesstrangers in their native land. To those who lovetheir native land, as Canadians do passionately, thiswas a hardship. In like manner, nothing but obediencecould reconcile many from here to become citizens ofthe British Possessions and renounce their remedy complications of the kind, Very Rev. FatherGeneral, by a decree of June 16th, 1879, attached theMission of Canada to the English Province of the So-ciety, and the New York portion of the Mission to
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