. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . avery. As the penal laws depiived these Catholics of all relig-ious instruction, their children grew up Protestants. With theRevolution, however, a change came. Washington had scarcelyappeared in the camp at Boston, when he found preparations onfoot for burning the Pope in effigy. He informed the people That ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. he had been apprased of a design of observing that foolish andchildish custom, and expressed his surprise that there should beofficers and soldiers in the army so void of common sense as not tosee the impropriety of such a sl
. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . avery. As the penal laws depiived these Catholics of all relig-ious instruction, their children grew up Protestants. With theRevolution, however, a change came. Washington had scarcelyappeared in the camp at Boston, when he found preparations onfoot for burning the Pope in effigy. He informed the people That ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. he had been apprased of a design of observing that foolish andchildish custom, and expressed his surprise that there should beofficers and soldiers in the army so void of common sense as not tosee the impropriety of such a slep at such a juncture, when we an;soliciting and seeking the friendship and alliance of the people ofCanada and France; and under such circumstances to be insultingtheir religion is monstrous. When the Revolutionary war terminated, there were in Bostona few Frenchmen and Spaniards and about thirty Irishmen, amongwhom a clergyman, who had been a chaplain in the French navy,resolved to settle. They assembled for worship in what was form-. FEDERAL STREET CATHEDRAL. crly the French Protestant church on School street, erected by theHuguenots, many of whom came to Boston in 1686, after the re-vocation of the Edict of Nantes and the Massacre of St. Bartholo-mew. Few of those that established this church could havethought that a branch of that power, from which they had fledtheir native land upon pain of death, would so soon flourish on aspot which they had chosen for a place of refuge. Mass was per-formed in it for the first time on Nov. 2, 1788. In 1799, as thelease of this structure had nearly expired and their numbers hadgreatly increased, it was decided to purchase a site and erect a ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. church. The Protestants generously contributed to build thisedifice, which their fathers would not have tolerated for a was built on Franklin street, on the site of what is now knownas Cathedral Building, and was dedicated September 29, 1803, andcalled the Church of
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