. History of the Catholic church in the United States--. like Father Schneiders, was erected byRev. Paul Erntzen, is read: Hie jacet Rev. Joan. Bapt. De Ritter,. 3d Feb. 1787. ^Etatis 70, Missionis 20. Woodstock Letters, 1876,v., pp. 202-213. 2 Rev. James Pellentz to Very Rev. Dr. Carroll, October 1, of Carlisle, Carlisle, 1841 ; Dilhet, Etat de lEglise Catho-lique. Rev. James A. Huber kindly informs me that a slab over thedoor gives the date 1806, correcting the statement in the Charter. Dilhet, CHURCH AT CONEWAGO. 293 were visited from the old mission stations, as the R
. History of the Catholic church in the United States--. like Father Schneiders, was erected byRev. Paul Erntzen, is read: Hie jacet Rev. Joan. Bapt. De Ritter,. 3d Feb. 1787. ^Etatis 70, Missionis 20. Woodstock Letters, 1876,v., pp. 202-213. 2 Rev. James Pellentz to Very Rev. Dr. Carroll, October 1, of Carlisle, Carlisle, 1841 ; Dilhet, Etat de lEglise Catho-lique. Rev. James A. Huber kindly informs me that a slab over thedoor gives the date 1806, correcting the statement in the Charter. Dilhet, CHURCH AT CONEWAGO. 293 were visited from the old mission stations, as the Rev. purchase shows, though the memory of this earlysanctuary of religion has faded away in the locality. There were already Catholics in Western 1785 a man came to Philadelphia and presented a pe-tition to Father Farmer from Catholics in the vicinity ofPittsburg, who desired the visit of a priest at least once ayear. Seventy Catholics living on or near the Monongahelaat Muddy Creek, Ten-Mile Water, and Shirtee Water, signed. CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART AND RESIDENCE, CONEWAGO. the appeal. The leading Catholic in the district then wasFelix Meanwhile the venerable Mr. Pellentz was building astone church at Conewago, to replace the log chapel of co-lonial days. The work was characteristic of the man, andstands to this day, solid, firm, and unpretentious. His peo-ple had prospered, and religion was free. He selected a red who visited it about 1806, mentions it as completed. Letter of Rev. Hoban. 1 Rev. F. Farmer to Very Rev. John Carroll, July 19, 1785. 294 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CARROLL. sandstone of very close texture, from a fine quarry at EastBerlin, and every block was hauled more than ten miles tothe church. The corner-stone of the Church of the SacredHeart of Jesus, the first in the country of that title, was laidin 1786, and the edifice was completed in 1787, and a sub-stantial residence for the clergy rose beside it. Some sixtyyears ag
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