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 . tem of educa-tion. To complete his studies he entered the Colle-e ofSt. Vincent, Westmoreland County, under the directionof the learned Order of St. Benedict; and, being calledto the ecclesiastical state, went tlu-ough his philosophyand divinity studies in the theological school of thatabbey, where he was graduated, in June, 1876. He came to New York for ordinati
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 . tem of educa-tion. To complete his studies he entered the Colle-e ofSt. Vincent, Westmoreland County, under the directionof the learned Order of St. Benedict; and, being calledto the ecclesiastical state, went tlu-ough his philosophyand divinity studies in the theological school of thatabbey, where he was graduated, in June, 1876. He came to New York for ordination, and was thefirst on whom Archbishop McCloskey conferred any holyorders after he had been created a Cardinal. The Tonner received minor orders at liis hands in St. 472 CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. Patricks Cathedral, August 20, 1876 ; and was ordainedpriest by Bishojj Loiighlin in his cathedial, Brooklyn,on the 24th of the same month. He made his fiist exercise of the ministry in theparish of St. Mary Magdalen, where he was a curate,till his Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, in February,1877, confided to him the jiastoral care of the flockgathered at Tremont, under the fostering protection ofSt. Joseph. o Q CD -^ oct-. CHURCH OF SAINT LAWRENCE OTOOLE. EIGHTY-FOURTH STREET, NEAR FOURTH AVENUE, YORKVILLE. IN the year 1851, when Mount St. Vincent and theConvent of the Sacred Heart stood grandly out inthe northern part of the island like two bulwarks ofCatholicity, the number of the faithful began to increaseso that new churches were demanded—new centers to whichthe people might more readily tm-n—monuments, as itwere, ever before their eyes, to remind them of whatthey were by baptism, and what they should be indeed and in practice. The Most Reverend Archbishop Hughes assigned tothe Rev. E. J. OReilly all the disti-ict on the eastern jjartof the city, between St. Pauls, at Harlem, and the Chm-chof St. John the Evangelist. The new pastor entered hisparish with courage an
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