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 . io[) .Spalding in charge of a congregation, anderected the Church of St. AVenceslaus, on Central Avenue, 262 CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. above Baltimore Street, wliicli was dedicated by the lateBishop Verot of St. Augustine, May 20th, 1872. The Rev. Mr. Yacula ministered to this congregationof Bohemians for about two years. He was then for ayear chaplain of th
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 . io[) .Spalding in charge of a congregation, anderected the Church of St. AVenceslaus, on Central Avenue, 262 CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. above Baltimore Street, wliicli was dedicated by the lateBishop Verot of St. Augustine, May 20th, 1872. The Rev. Mr. Yacula ministered to this congregationof Bohemians for about two years. He was then for ayear chaplain of the Baltimore University Hospital. Afterthis first exercise of the ministry in the Diocese of Balti-more he came to New York, and was appointed to theChm-ch of St. Cyrillus and St. Methodius, on the 27th ofSeptember, 1875. His active zeal has done much to mould the littleconffresration of Bohemian CathoHcs into an earnest anddevoted body, their faith being kept alive by pious as-sociations and the influence of the schools. Their present prosperity, if not the origin of theirchurch, is due, in no small degree, to the patience andthe intelligent zeal of the clergjnnan who now fills theresponsible position of pastor in this CHURCH OF SAINT ELIZABETH. WEST ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVENTH STREET. THE CHURCHES OF SAINT ELIZABETH AND SAINT JOHN. FORT WASHINGTON AND K I N G S B RID G K . FORT WASHINGTON recalls by its name the strug-gle in the days of the Revolution, when Magawsand Sheas regiments of the Pennsyh-ania line, which num-bered many Irish Catholics, so stubbornly held out againstan overwhelming- English force. As a part of our islandwhere Catholic blood flowed in the cause of AmericanIndependence, it was well that it should be hallowed byreligious associations; that the noblest worship ever offeredto the Almighty might there bind us witli our fellow-believers of the days that tried mens souls. In 1869, the Most Reverend Archbishop establishedthe parochial district of F
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