The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . meeting held 31 March, 1799, he andJohn Magner, Patrick Campbell, Michael Burns,Owen Callahan, John Duggan, and Edmund Connorwere named the committee to take charge of the newproject. From the congregation they collected$16,000. Members of the leading Protestant familiesheaded by President John Adams added $11,000 tothis, and from Catholics in other places and othersources $5,500 more was received. The famousarchitect Charles Bulfinch, also a P
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . meeting held 31 March, 1799, he andJohn Magner, Patrick Campbell, Michael Burns,Owen Callahan, John Duggan, and Edmund Connorwere named the committee to take charge of the newproject. From the congregation they collected$16,000. Members of the leading Protestant familiesheaded by President John Adams added $11,000 tothis, and from Catholics in other places and othersources $5,500 more was received. The famousarchitect Charles Bulfinch, also a Protestant, whodesigned the capitol at Washington and the StateHouse in Boston, supplied the plans without chargefor a brick building 80 feet long and 60 wide of Ionicstyle, severely simple but impressive. Groimd wasbroken for it on St. Patricks Day 1800 and it wasready for dedication 29 September, 1803, havingcost $20,000. Prominent among this first congre-gation, besides those already mentioned, were JamesKavanagh, John Ward, David Fitzgerald, StephenRoberts, John DriscoU, William Daly, Daniel English,Thomas Murphy, John Hanly, Abraham Fitton,. < t-t s o O (a <: w f-g^§£^ o5o w o e- • o a Idin ~(/) ^ O H « Et, Wo K U f-Qft. JO O ?J m <i KQH K BOSTON 705 BOSTON Mary Lob, and representatives of the Duport, Dus-seaucoir, Dumesnil, Lepouse, and Julien Carroll went on from Baltimore to performthe ceremony of dedication. This visit of the bishopoccasioned the greatest local satisfaction, and thetwo priests continued their zealous ministrationswith such success that in 1805 their flock had increasedto about 500. Soon Bishop Carroll saw the necessityof having a bishop in Boston and desired to nominateFather Matignon for the see, but the latter refusedto allow his name to be considered. The goodaccomplished here, he wrote, is almost exclusivelythe work of Mr. Cheverus; he it is who fills the pulpit,who is most frequent in tiie confessional. BishopCarroll t
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