Old Catholic Maryland and its early Jesuit missionaries . ed by their example, the people are preparedto receive the faith whenever we shall have leisure to in-struct them. Not long after a young empress (as they call her atPascataway) was baptized in the town of St. Marys, andis now being educated there, having already become aproficient in the English language. Almost at the same 42 OLD CATHOLIC MARYLAND AND time the town named Portobacco, to a great extent re-ceived the faith along with baptism. This town, from itssituation on the river Pamac (the inhabitants call it Pa-make), almost in the
Old Catholic Maryland and its early Jesuit missionaries . ed by their example, the people are preparedto receive the faith whenever we shall have leisure to in-struct them. Not long after a young empress (as they call her atPascataway) was baptized in the town of St. Marys, andis now being educated there, having already become aproficient in the English language. Almost at the same 42 OLD CATHOLIC MARYLAND AND time the town named Portobacco, to a great extent re-ceived the faith along with baptism. This town, from itssituation on the river Pamac (the inhabitants call it Pa-make), almost in the centre of the Indians, and the con-venience of making excursions from it in all directions,we have determined to make our residence ; the more sobecause we fear that we may be compelled to abandonPascataway, on account of its proximity to the Susque-hannoes, which nation is the most hostile to the Chris-tians. An attack having been recently made on a settlementof ours, they slew the men whom we had there, and car-ried away our goods, to our great ITS EARLY JESUIT MISSIONARIES. 43 CHAPTER II. Father White was ably assisted in all his early under-takings by Father John Altham, vere Gravenor, andFather Timothy Hays, alias Hanmer. Father Altham was a native of Warwickshire, England,and was born in the year 1589. He was enrolled amongthe sons of St. Ignatius in 1623. Before coming toMaryland he zealously served the missions in the Devonand London Districts. Father Hays was born in Dorsetshire, in England, in1584. Being already raised to the dignity of the priest-hood, he entered a Jesuit Novitiate in 1617. For a longtime he was engaged in missionary life in London, wherehe was exposed to a thousand daily dangers. From the Annual Letters we learn many interestingdetails concerning the labors of the missionaries, andtheir mode of life. Thus we learn, that they made manyexcursions, not only by land, but also by water. One ofthe Fathers, writing in 1640 says : We have to content
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