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 . unce him with the vengeance of God if he didnot abandon liis sinful and horrible life, he intrepidlydeclared to the wretched man the truths of religion. TheSaints visits proved unavailing, and, after a fourth visit,fnuling him obdurate, the bishop excommunicated him. G54 CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. Then the king followed St. Stanislaus to a chapel, to whichhe
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 . unce him with the vengeance of God if he didnot abandon liis sinful and horrible life, he intrepidlydeclared to the wretched man the truths of religion. TheSaints visits proved unavailing, and, after a fourth visit,fnuling him obdurate, the bishop excommunicated him. G54 CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. Then the king followed St. Stanislaus to a chapel, to whichhe had retired, and ordered his guards to kill the holy they shrank from such a crime, the king, taunt-ing them as cowards, rushed forward and dispatched himwith his own hands. The guilty king soon fled from his kingdom; andas God honored his martyred servant by many miracles,St. Stanislaus was solemnly canonized in 1253. The reverend pastor alluded to the straggles whichthe congregation had made, and to the condition oftheir brethren in Prussian and Russian Poland, and ofthe persecutions to which they were subjected. In the evening Rev. A. Tonner officiated at theSolemn Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed ^/ Qy ia^iftJ € iyj-aviei CHURCH OF ST. STANISLAUS. 655 REV. FRANCIS XAVIER WAYMAN, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF ST. STANISLAUS. THE pastor of the Cliixrcli of St. Stanislaus, bishopand martyr, the Rev. Francis Xavier Waynian,was born on the 25th of November, 1842, in the Dioceseof Posen, one of the two of which the great confessorfor the faith. Cardinal Ledochowski, is archbishop. Inorder to prepare himself for the ecclesiastical state, heentered the seminary in the city of Glogau, Silesia, inthe year 1861, and, having completed his theologicalcom-se, was ordained priest on the 14th of June, exercised the ministry in his native country till thewar Avith the French and the persecutions of the Churchby the inhuman Emperor of Germany, in consequenceof
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