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 . to St. Marys Churcli in j\Iilwauke^. His mind had always turned to the religious state,and he felt called to devote his life to serve Cod inthe reform of the Franciscan Order, known as the FriarsMinor Capuchins. There was no community of this 424 CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. famous order in the country, but a pious Swiss Fatherwas duly authorized to open a novi
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 . to St. Marys Churcli in j\Iilwauke^. His mind had always turned to the religious state,and he felt called to devote his life to serve Cod inthe reform of the Franciscan Order, known as the FriarsMinor Capuchins. There was no community of this 424 CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. famous order in the country, but a pious Swiss Fatherwas duly authorized to open a novitiate in Wisconsin. Frey and F. Fi-ancis Haas were the firstto receive the habit and enter the novitiate. After pro-nouncing his vows he erected the convent of MountCalvary, in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, in community prospered, and Father Bonaventura,after laboring here several years, came to New York in1866, and had already erected a convent and churchof Our Mother of Son-ows, in Pitt Street, before theMost Reverend Archbishop requested him to extend hiszeal to St. Johns. This brief sketch will show that heis a priest of more than ordinary merit, and one likelyto render signal service to the CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST. FIFTIETH STREET. THE site of the magnificent new Cathedral Churchof St. Patrick has been, almost from the com-mencement of the centmy, hallowed by the offering ofthe Lamb without spot in the Liturgy of the New Law. In the year 1810, the Jesuit Fathers, who hadopened an academy opposite St. Patricks Cathedral, re-moved it to a fine old mansion on the corner of FifthAvenue and Fiftieth Street—a building- still standing-,and used as the parochial residence of the chm-ch whosehistory we noAv give. The New York Literary Institution had its chapelof St. Ignatius, in which Father Peter Malou, once thebrIlUant general of the Belgians in their uprising againstAustria to secure the freedom of their Church, andother Fathers of
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