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, inthe year 1861, and, having completed his theologicalcom-se, was ordained priest on the 14th of June, exercised the ministry in his native country till thewar Avith the French and the persecutions of the Churchby the inhuman Emperor of Germany, in consequenceof which he came to this country on the 9th of Jan-uary, 1876. He was received into the Dioces
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, inthe year 1861, and, having completed his theologicalcom-se, was ordained priest on the 14th of June, exercised the ministry in his native country till thewar Avith the French and the persecutions of the Churchby the inhuman Emperor of Germany, in consequenceof which he came to this country on the 9th of Jan-uary, 1876. He was received into the Diocese of New York byhis Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, and assigned to dutyas assistant at St. Nicholas Church. Here he laboredacceptably for a year and a half, when his Eminence,loth to see the attempt of the Catholic Poles fail with-out their being able to build up a chm-ch, requested the 656 CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. Rev. Mr. Wayman to undertake the somewhat difficulttask in which one piiest had ah-eady failed. Tliu Rev. Mr. Wayman showed an active and luitir-ing zeal, and thus far he has succeeded beyond all hopein building up a congregation, and securing a moresuitable chiuch edifice than that acquired by his CHURCH OF SAINT STEPHEN, An EAST TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET. CHURCH OF SAINT STEPHEN. TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET. IN the month of November, 1848, an American priest,who had been giaduated with distinction at Rome,the Rev. Jeremiah W. Cmnmings, was appointed by theRight Reverend John Hughes, then Bishop of New York,to organize a new parochial district and erect a site, deemed a very ehgible one, on MadisonAvenue, at tlie comer of Twenty-seventh Street, onehundred feet in front by one hundi-ed and seventy-threefeet in depth, was pm-chased, giving space for church,parochial residence, and schools. The quarter was an at-tractive one, and everything promised favorably for thenew church. Dr. Cummings, late as the season was, began opera-tions at once. His first s
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