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 . he churchdifficulties, the functionary in whose control the law hadplaced the management of affairs, attempted to diive thepriests of the parish from their residence by neglectingto pay the ground rent to Trinity, that corporationwould not become a party to the outrage. The greatArchbishop Hughes said, in reference to tliis: I retm-nmy thanks now to that corporat
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 . he churchdifficulties, the functionary in whose control the law hadplaced the management of affairs, attempted to diive thepriests of the parish from their residence by neglectingto pay the ground rent to Trinity, that corporationwould not become a party to the outrage. The greatArchbishop Hughes said, in reference to tliis: I retm-nmy thanks now to that corporation for the kindness andforbearance with wliich they treated the clergy of Church upon that occasion, for they made theobservation that for a sum so trifling they would notbe willing to see the clergy of any denomination dispos-sessed and tm-ned out from their lodgings and place ofusual residence. Such is, in brief, the history of St. Peters Chm-ch,which the illustrioiis Archbishop Hughes styled thevery cradle of Catholicity, the very spot upon whichthe altar was permanently erected for the first time inthe State of New York—this chmch, the oldest and mostendeared by every fond recollection of the oldest CHURCH OF ST. PETEE. 621 REV. MICHAEL J. OFARRELL, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER. THE present pastor of the oldest Catholic churchin New York was born in Limerick, Ireland, onthe 2d of December, 1832, and was baptized on the feastof St. Francis Xavier, the Apostle of the Indies. He be-longed to a family which has given several of its sonsto the service of the altar. After his preliminary studies he entered the Mission-ary College of All Hallows, in 1<S48, and devoted thi-eeyears to the study of rhetoric, philosophy, and part ofhis theological course. Proceeding then to the great Sem-inary of St. Sulpice, at Paris, he completed his course andreceived deacons orders, but was ordained priest in Ire-land, on the 18th of August, 1855. Retmiaing to Pari
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