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 . ncestors for cen-turies. New Italy drove her childien hy the thousandsfrom her shores, to seek a livelihood in other lands. Theemigration to America took a rapid development, andwith the Avorthy and industrious came, of course, manywhose evil courses made tliem gladly seek a City of New York, the natural centre of immigration,has received Italians by t
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 . ncestors for cen-turies. New Italy drove her childien hy the thousandsfrom her shores, to seek a livelihood in other lands. Theemigration to America took a rapid development, andwith the Avorthy and industrious came, of course, manywhose evil courses made tliem gladly seek a City of New York, the natural centre of immigration,has received Italians by thousands, so that they are nowfound in all branches of tiade and labor, the luiskilledtaking in many cases the work on railroads and otherimprovements, which was formerly almost exclusively per-formed by ihe stalwart men from Ireland. These emigrants, in a new and strange country, ^ithnone of the influence of their parish priest or religious —their quiet riural homes exchanged for city tenements —were exposed to a loss of faith. It will thus be seen that the Chm-ch of St. Anthonyof Padua, being the only one in the city devoted exclu-sively to the care of the spiritual interests of the Italianresidents, has an immense
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