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 . ppointedby the Most Reverend Archbishop to St. Marys, whichat an earlier period was one of the most popiilovis parishesin the City of New York. Here he continued his careerof usefulness, and soon learned that with narrowed re-sources he must meet heav)^ church expenses and carryon the schools. When the Most Reverend Ai-chbishop McCloskey, in1868, convened the thi
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 . ppointedby the Most Reverend Archbishop to St. Marys, whichat an earlier period was one of the most popiilovis parishesin the City of New York. Here he continued his careerof usefulness, and soon learned that with narrowed re-sources he must meet heav)^ church expenses and carryon the schools. When the Most Reverend Ai-chbishop McCloskey, in1868, convened the third diocesan synod of his diocese,the Rev. E. J. OReilly acted as secretary of that im-poitant convention of the clergy. In 1873, the Most Reverend Archbishop selected himas a member of his council, one of his advisers andconsulters in the management of important affairs relatingto the diocese. On the 20th of September, 1875, he Avas chosen todeliver, in St. Peters Chm-ch, a sermon at the massoffered for those who had gloriously laid down theirlives in defence of the Holy See. His labors in his own j^fi^iish, and the improvementsaccomplished by him, are already recorded in the sketchof the clnuch, and need not be repeated hH a; BH EH r -< OW o CHURCH OF SAINT MARY MAGDALEN. KAST SEVENTEENTH STKEET. THE church dedicated to the celebrated penitentof the gospel, model, by her contrition and love,of all who renounce the wide and flowery ways of sinto tread the narrow and arduous way of the cross thatleads to life, is one of the most recent of the religiousedifices erected by the German Catholics of New YorkCity. It is due mainly to the zeal of the present pas-tor, the Rev. Adam F. Tonner, who, while assistant atSt. Nicholas Chm-ch, felt assm-ed that another Germanchm-ch in that part of the city was peremptorily demanded. The Most Reverend Archbishop was convinced bythe cogency of his arguments, and permitted the the district assigned to him, he looked around for
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