Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . ting untilhe was through; and then raisingher eyes, she quietly asked theinfallible Bibleman: Do youknow grammar, sir? He said,Yes. Well, resumed thelady, is Antichrist singular orplural? Singular, he answered,feeling rather two hundred and fifty-sixpopes singular or plural? shesaid. He was obliged to say, Plural. Therefore, the popeis not Antichrist, she remarkedwith emphasis; and the preachertook his way in sadness from thathouse. After some years, two fellow-laborers came to t
Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . ting untilhe was through; and then raisingher eyes, she quietly asked theinfallible Bibleman: Do youknow grammar, sir? He said,Yes. Well, resumed thelady, is Antichrist singular orplural? Singular, he answered,feeling rather two hundred and fifty-sixpopes singular or plural? shesaid. He was obliged to say, Plural. Therefore, the popeis not Antichrist, she remarkedwith emphasis; and the preachertook his way in sadness from thathouse. After some years, two fellow-laborers came to the indefatigable Father Badins assistance. One of them,Rev. Mr. Salmon, died from the effects of an unhappy accident—a fall fromhis horse. The accident, writes Father Badin, happened about noon, ata little distance from a residence. A servant, who found him half dead in thewoods, went to solicit aid, which was denied him by an impious and cruelfarmer, simply because the unfortunate man was a priest. It was onlytowards night that a good Catholic of the neighborhood was informed ofthe fact. \. RT. REV. BISHOP WATTERSON, ,COLUMBUS, OHIO. THE OHIO VALLEY. 3^ One by one, other priests came, and at length, in 1808, Bardstown, Ky.,became an episcopal see; and three years later, Bishop Flaget was welcomedto Father Badins sixteen-feet-square log cabin. The growth of the Churchwas remarkable in the dark and bloody ground. Father Badin paid a visit to his native land, and after his return, continuedhis missionary labors in Kentucky, Illinois, and Ohio. A vigorous constitu-tion and active habits enabled him to get through an immense amount ofwork. To preach and sing Mass was his delight. His mind was highlycultivated. Roaming the woods of Kentucky did not make him forget hisHomer and Virgil. He was an excellent Latin scholar, and his Latin poemin praise of Perrys victory over the English on Lake Erie was much Principles of Catholics, printed at Bardstown in 1807, was the
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