. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. working on holidays of obligation in a most disedify-ing manner, because such labor was, under certain contin-gencies, a matter of necessity, the missionaries submitted tothe Yicar-Apostolic regulations which they had adopted,aiming to carry out the spirit of the church by enforcing theproper observance of all the festivals she prescribed, butauthorizing servile labor by farm-hands employed in gettingin the crops, on any holidays that oc
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. working on holidays of obligation in a most disedify-ing manner, because such labor was, under certain contin-gencies, a matter of necessity, the missionaries submitted tothe Yicar-Apostolic regulations which they had adopted,aiming to carry out the spirit of the church by enforcing theproper observance of all the festivals she prescribed, butauthorizing servile labor by farm-hands employed in gettingin the crops, on any holidays that occurred between the be-ginning of May and the end of September, excepting, how-ever, Ascension, Whitmonday, Corpus Christi, and Assump-tion, on which no work was allowed. On all liolidays with-out exception Catholics were required to hear mass, if saidat a chapel within their reach, and when there was no masssaid at any place which they could conveniently attend, Maryland MSS. in Records at the Episcopal Palace, Fulham, citedby Dr. Hawks, Contributions, ii., p. Iliuvks, Contributions, ii., pp. 149, 161.^ Scliarf, * History of Maryland, i., p. i
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