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 . ounger members of his flock together in pious ex-ercises, that each should be a support to the other inthe trials and temptations that beset the rising generationin a great city. In May, 1877, the Society of the Knights of St, AVen-ceslaus was originated. They attended a Solemn j\Iass onthe 28th of September, when a beautiful flag was presentedto the society 1)y
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 . ounger members of his flock together in pious ex-ercises, that each should be a support to the other inthe trials and temptations that beset the rising generationin a great city. In May, 1877, the Society of the Knights of St, AVen-ceslaus was originated. They attended a Solemn j\Iass onthe 28th of September, when a beautiful flag was presentedto the society 1)y the pastor, and blessed by the Rev. of the Church of St. Stanislaus, several of theprominent members of the congregation being sponsors forthe CHURCH OF ST. CYRILLUS AND ST. METHODIl8. Ji;] RKV. A. V. VACULA, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF ST. CYRILLUS AND ST. METHODUTS. THP^ Rev. A. \. Varula was horn at Osek, Archdio-cese of Ohnutz, in Moravia, on the loth of Angnst,184r), and was edncated at the gymnasium at Kremsier,from which he entered the University of Vienna in two years spent there, he resolved to embrace theclerical state, and pursued liis theological studies for threeyears in the University of Olmutz. Feeling called to de-vote himself to the American missions, he was sent to theAmerican College at Louvain in 1809, and there ordainedfor tlic Diocese of Baltimore, on the 10th of September,1870, in the College of the Jesiiit Fathers at Louvain. At the desiie of his parents, he returned to hisnative city and said his first mass in the Cluuch ofthe Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and dm-ing the tem-porarv illness of the parisli priest and his assistant, offi-ciated for two months He then came to this coinitry, arrivi
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