. History of the Catholic church in the United States--. buildup Catholicity in the 1 See the admirable Life of this holy priest by Right Rev. C. P. Maes,Bishop of Covington. 2 Bishop Maes, The Life of Rev. Charles Nerinckx, Cincinnati,1880, pp. 100-112 ; Webb, The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky,Louisville, 1884, pp. 194-9 ; Spalding, Sketches of Kentucky, Louis-ville, pp. 162, etc. ; Relation de ce qui est arrive a deux Religieux dela Trappe pendant leur sejour aupres des Sauvages, Paris, 1824; Pope, Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul, Charlottetown, 1886. KENTUCKY. 529 Rev. Mr. Ne
. History of the Catholic church in the United States--. buildup Catholicity in the 1 See the admirable Life of this holy priest by Right Rev. C. P. Maes,Bishop of Covington. 2 Bishop Maes, The Life of Rev. Charles Nerinckx, Cincinnati,1880, pp. 100-112 ; Webb, The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky,Louisville, 1884, pp. 194-9 ; Spalding, Sketches of Kentucky, Louis-ville, pp. 162, etc. ; Relation de ce qui est arrive a deux Religieux dela Trappe pendant leur sejour aupres des Sauvages, Paris, 1824; Pope, Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul, Charlottetown, 1886. KENTUCKY. 529 Rev. Mr. Nerinckx resided for a time with Rev. Mr. Badin•at St. Stephens, but before the close of his first year he re-moved to the house erected by Rev. Mr. Founder on RollingFork. Here a frame church had been hastily erected by thepeople, to which, on the feast of the Holy name of Mary, inSeptember, 18055 he gave the name of Holy Mary ; but onthe 15th of November he laid the corner-stone of a largerand more substantial edifice, though it was to cost only four. CHURCH OP ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, LEONARDTOWN, MD. hundred dollars. It was to receive a statue of Our Ladywhich he had brought from Belgium. The next year heerected on Hardins Creek a log church, dedicated to Borromeo, for a congregation of six hundred, whohad been in the habit of meeting at the house of HenryHagan. This was the fourth church in 1 Bishop Maes, The Life of Rev. Charles Nerinckx, pp. 114-9;-Spalding, pp. 130, etc. ; 530 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CARROLL. About this time the two Kentucky priests made a journey-to Vincennes, which Bishop Carroll had been unable to sup-ply with a priest after the death of the zealous Rev. Their sermons and exhortations on the occasion ofthe Jubilee, their assiduity in the confessional and in cate-chizing awakened the faith of the people, and on the 25th ofApril the Vincennes Catholics wrote to Bishop Carroll, im-ploring him to give them a resident pastor.
Size: 1878px × 1331px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booki, booksubjectcatholicchurch
