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 . a fortune. Having learned thevanity of the world, and being desirous to labor for the sal-vation of souls he entered St. Johns College, Fordham,in 1863, and, after i)ursuing a course of study there, wasgi-aduated July 2, 18GG. A few months later he enteredthe Provincial Seminary at Troy, and at the close of hisecclesiastical studies he was ordained, on the IGth o
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 . a fortune. Having learned thevanity of the world, and being desirous to labor for the sal-vation of souls he entered St. Johns College, Fordham,in 1863, and, after i)ursuing a course of study there, wasgi-aduated July 2, 18GG. A few months later he enteredthe Provincial Seminary at Troy, and at the close of hisecclesiastical studies he was ordained, on the IGth of No-vember, 18fi9, at Troy. His first mission was at theChurch of the Immaculate Conception in Fourteenth Street. He was then for nearly three years at Port Jorvis,laboring in that parish and its missions, which extend forseventy miles. From this he A\as transferred to theClmrch of St. Augustine, at Morrisania, and then to of Lima, New York. lie was intrusted, in Juno, 1875, with the organiza-tion of a new parish, being tlui first pastor appointedl)y his Eniinciuce after liis elevation as a Prince of theChui-cli, and the first priest appointed to erect a church inNew \\)rk City in lionor of the Sacred Heart of I—I< .?» ;?;I—I P H-l o o CHURCH OF SAINT STANISLAUS (POLISH). STANTON STREET. THE Catholic people of Poland have ever been re-spected by the Americans, who conld not forgetthe services of Pnlaski and Kosciusko, or behold unmovedtheir gallant Ijut unsuccessful efforts to liberate their na-tive land from the power of Russia. For many years there was, however, but little emi-gration to this country; but in 1834, after the defeatof the Polish armies, a ninnber an-ived, for whom a gen-eral sympathy was felt. Congress, by the act of June30th in that year, granted them part of the public landsin Michigan and Illinois. As a general rule, they did not settle together, but,soon acquiring English, mingled with other Catholics inour churches, enjoying occasi
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