History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . INTERIOR ST. PATRICKS CHURCH, ESCANABA. M. Michael, M. Blanche, M. Hyacinth,AI. Adelgundis, M. dementia. For wantof a special convent they occupied somerooms in the school building as their livingapartments until the spring of 1890, whenFather Lings completed the convent onHale street begun by his predecessor, Fa-ther Buttermann. The site for the convent,lots 9
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . INTERIOR ST. PATRICKS CHURCH, ESCANABA. M. Michael, M. Blanche, M. Hyacinth,AI. Adelgundis, M. dementia. For wantof a special convent they occupied somerooms in the school building as their livingapartments until the spring of 1890, whenFather Lings completed the convent onHale street begun by his predecessor, Fa-ther Buttermann. The site for the convent,lots 9 and 10, Block 39, were purchasedat a cost of one thousand two hundreddollars from Henry J. Derouin, on Feb-ruarv 28, 1888.—Sister M. Pacifica suc-ceeded Sister M. A. Ligouri as superior- 368 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF ess in 1903 and in 1905 was herself suc-ceeded by Sister M. Viola. The school so well merited for the edu-cation of youth is conducted on a tuitionplan and it embraces besides the kinder-garten and the ordinary eight grammargrades a well regulated high schoolcourse. The regular attendance is fourhundred and eighty REV. JOSEPH M. LANGAN, BORN AT BARRIE, ON-TARIO, CANADA, NOVEMBER 30, 1865, OR-DAINED BY BISHOP VERTIN, AT MARQUETTE,MICHIGAN, MAY 23, 18SS. In 1892 Father Francis Lings erectedthe present presbytery. ANNES CHURCH.— that it would serve to their better interest, the French Canadians de-cided in 1887 to separate from the St. Jo-sephs congregation to which they had be- .longed from the very start. With thesanction of the Ordinary they proceededto build a wooden church on lot 12, Block38, purchased for three hundred thirty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents, fromDaniel Wells and others. When thechurch was almost finished Rev. J. was appointed their first pastor onAugust 25, 1888. One month later, Sep-tember 30th, the church was blessed byBishop Vertin to the honor of St. first baptism recorded is t
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