. History of the Catholic church in Woonsocket and vicinity, from the celebration of the first mass in 1828, to the present time, with a condensed account of the early history of the church in the United States. home in January, 1856, taking passage on theill-fated steamer Pacific, which was never after heard from. Right Rev. Francis Patrick McFarland, D. D., thethird Bishop of Hartford, was born in Franklin, Pennsyl-vania, April 16, 1819. He was educated for the priest-hood at Mount St. Marys College, and was ordained inNew York on May 18, 1845. After ordination he filled aprofessors chair fo
. History of the Catholic church in Woonsocket and vicinity, from the celebration of the first mass in 1828, to the present time, with a condensed account of the early history of the church in the United States. home in January, 1856, taking passage on theill-fated steamer Pacific, which was never after heard from. Right Rev. Francis Patrick McFarland, D. D., thethird Bishop of Hartford, was born in Franklin, Pennsyl-vania, April 16, 1819. He was educated for the priest-hood at Mount St. Marys College, and was ordained inNew York on May 18, 1845. After ordination he filled aprofessors chair for one year in St. Johns College, Ford-ham. Leaving there he served as assistant priest for sev-eral months in New York City, and then was appointed tothe charge of a mission at Watertown, New York. In1851 he was made pastor of St. Johns Church, at Utica,New York. On March 14, 1858, he was consecratedBishop of Hartford, and like his two predecessors madeProvidence his home. When the new diocese of Providencewas created he removed to Hartford, where he engagedin the erection of a Cathedral, Episcopal Palace and Con-vent, and continued this work until his health failed. Hedied in Hartford October 12, 5f. Pauls Pcirbh, blactetone, Mass. CHAPTER XXV. First Mass in Blackstoxk—Fatheij Fitton the —Rev. Charles OReilly First Pastor of St. Pauls Parish—Magnificent Gifts of Welcome Farncm—Rev. Sheridan—The Life Work of Rev. W. A. Power. The first Mass celebrated in the Town of Blackstonewas in 1846, in the home of Edward McCabe, by Fitton, then a missionary priest from Boston, this the Catholic people attended services at Church, Woonsocket. Abont 1849, learning thatRev. Charles OReilly, then pastor of St. Charles, wasabout to sever his connection with that parish, the Catholicpeople of Blackstone held a meeting and appointed a com-mittee to wait upon Right Rev. Bishop Fitzpatrick at Bos-ton, to solicit the appointment
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