. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. Michigan, in Mary-land. Yet in the designs of God it was that which seem-ed least favored that was to develop most wonderfully,till the episcopate starting from a threefold source andblending into the hierarchy of the United States with the faith-ful sprung from those lands, and from Ireland, Germany,Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Portugal, and from the nativetribes, presents at the close of the nincteentli century a INTRODUCTION. 15 specta
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. Michigan, in Mary-land. Yet in the designs of God it was that which seem-ed least favored that was to develop most wonderfully,till the episcopate starting from a threefold source andblending into the hierarchy of the United States with the faith-ful sprung from those lands, and from Ireland, Germany,Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Portugal, and from the nativetribes, presents at the close of the nincteentli century a INTRODUCTION. 15 spectacle full of consolation and hope, exercising the highestmoral influence, stimulating education, upholding the sanctityof marriages, inculcating charity to the rich, and courageousendurance to the poor, detachment to all. This is the history which it is the pm-pose of tliis work totrace. In the volume here presented the narrative is broughtdown to that eventful year, 1763, when England became un-disputed mistress of all the territory east of the Mississippi,and when to mere human eyes the cause of the CatholicChm-ch throughout the land seemed BOOK I. THE CATHOLIC CHUECH IN THE ENGLISHCOLONIES. CHAPTICIJ I. EARLY PEOJECTS Oi SETTLEMENT. The revolt of Henry YIIL against the authority of the HolySee and his suppression of the religious houses had greatly im-paired the spirit of faith in the .people of England, butstill the new ideas, set up by Luther and Calvin on the Conti-nent, found few proselytes, even after his death; the establish-ment of a Calvinistic church by ihpse who assumed the regencyfor Edward YI. failed to win the mass of the English peoplefrom the faith of their forefathers. It was restored for abrief term by Mary, but EHzabeth, on her accession, revivedthe acts of the reigns of Henry and Edward. The mass wasabolished, an act of supremacy passed, the images of ourLord and His Saints were ordered to be broken or churches were tilled with a new
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