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 . ^ wasappointed to his present position; his assistants being, in1878, the Rev. Hugh McCabe and the Rev. J. CHURCH OF SAINT CECIIJA. SECOND AVENUE AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH STREET. TJIE Alost Reverend Arcliljisliop McCloskey, asearly as tlie year 1863, in view of the increas-ing Catholic jwpiilation in that part of Ncav York Island,purchased for twenty-one
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 . ^ wasappointed to his present position; his assistants being, in1878, the Rev. Hugh McCabe and the Rev. J. CHURCH OF SAINT CECIIJA. SECOND AVENUE AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH STREET. TJIE Alost Reverend Arcliljisliop McCloskey, asearly as tlie year 1863, in view of the increas-ing Catholic jwpiilation in that part of Ncav York Island,purchased for twenty-one thousand dollars a piece ofproperty, on the north-east corner <tf Second Avenue andOne Hundred and Fifth Street, sufficient for the erectionof a suitable church, with a pastoral residence and theschools which in time Avould gather around the sacrededifice. For some years, however, the condition of the countrymade any further attempt unwise; but in 1873 the MostReverend Archbishop deemed that the time had come toafford the Catholics In that })art the advantages of acluuch. He confided the task of organizing the ])arishand erecting the new church to a jiriest who had, as firstassistant at St. Teresas, won the respect and attentionof that cono-reffation. Placing his new parish under the patronage of , the Rev. Hugh Flattery jiro
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