. History of the Catholic church in Woonsocket and vicinity, from the celebration of the first mass in 1828, to the present time, with a condensed account of the early history of the church in the United States. t a conspi-racy was formed to take his life. One of the conspiratorstired a shot at him one evening in the Archiepiscopal chapel,under circumstances which led to the belief that his escapewas miraculous. In the year 1576 (he city of Milan wasvisited by a i)lague, which swept away thousands of this occasion he went about giving directions for takingcare of the sick and burying
. History of the Catholic church in Woonsocket and vicinity, from the celebration of the first mass in 1828, to the present time, with a condensed account of the early history of the church in the United States. t a conspi-racy was formed to take his life. One of the conspiratorstired a shot at him one evening in the Archiepiscopal chapel,under circumstances which led to the belief that his escapewas miraculous. In the year 1576 (he city of Milan wasvisited by a i)lague, which swept away thousands of this occasion he went about giving directions for takingcare of the sick and burying the dead, avoiding no danger THE PARISH OF ST. CHARLES. 113 and sparing no expense. He also visited all the neighbor-ing parishes, where the contagion raged. Continual laborsand austerities shortened his life, and being seized with anintermittent fever, he died at Milan, November 4, 1584,aged 46. He was immediately enrolled among the saints,but was not canonized until 1610. In a crypt under thedome of the Cathedral at Milan—one of the most beautifulecclesiastical buildings in the world—lies the embalmedbody of this Cardinal-saint. The body is enclosed in asilver sarcophagus, faced with rock The Precious Blood Parish. CHAPTER of the Fkecious Blood—Its Est^lblishmext, Kise andProgress—Institutions in Connection Therewith—BriefReference to Foundation of Catholicism in French-Canadian residents have been a mostimportant factor in the propagation of the Faith andthe building up of the Catholic Church in worthy residents were reared under the influenceof the Church in their Canadian homes. From infancyto manhood and womanhood they breathed an at-mosphere pregnant with the spirit of religion. In thehonje, in the Church, in the Sunday school, they were sur-rounded with all that is purest and beet in faith and early pioneer priests traversed the primeval forestsalong the banks of the St. Lawrence and erected the em-b
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