Old Catholic Maryland and its early Jesuit missionaries . ble for themission. The principal object, however, of the College, was for 126 OLD CATHOLIC MARYLAND AND the use of the Fathers^ making their third years pro-bation, after completing their studies and course of teach-ing, before the solemn professions of the last vows ofreligion. In 1767-8 the Novitiate, or House of First Probation,was removed from Watten to Ghent, which then becamethe House of the First and Third Years Probation. At the suppression in 1773 it shared in the fate of theother Continental Colleges. ^ In a leUer from Ghent
Old Catholic Maryland and its early Jesuit missionaries . ble for themission. The principal object, however, of the College, was for 126 OLD CATHOLIC MARYLAND AND the use of the Fathers^ making their third years pro-bation, after completing their studies and course of teach-ing, before the solemn professions of the last vows ofreligion. In 1767-8 the Novitiate, or House of First Probation,was removed from Watten to Ghent, which then becamethe House of the First and Third Years Probation. At the suppression in 1773 it shared in the fate of theother Continental Colleges. ^ In a leUer from Ghent for 1624, we find: The Fathers in thethird years probation added to oiher duties (as in former years)the hearing the confessions of English, Irish, and Scotch soldiers,whether of those escaped from Holland, or of the Spanish auxil-iary camp in the neighborhood. About ten English gentlemen,some of them of high families, made retreats here with much fruit,especially in the case of three who decided upon leaving the worldand entering upon a religious ITS EARLY JESUIT MISSIONARIES. 12/ CHAPTER VIII. It seems likely that Father Robert Harding spentsome time at Newtown. At all events, I found his nameon one of the books there. Father Harding was bornon the 6th of October, 1701. Having pursued hisstudies in one of the English Colleges on the Continenthe caught the flame of the apostolic fire that burned andglowed around him. In his twenty-first year he becamea fervent novice of the Society of Jesus. About elevenyears afterwards he was sent on the Maryland became distinguished as a missionary in Pennsyl-vania. He succeeded Father Greaton as Pastor of theold church in Philadelphia. Under his patronage, andthrough his exertions, St. Marys Church was built. Hewas untiring in his labors in behalf of his little flock.*^ In the meanwhile, says a Philadelphia writer, FatherHarding was not idle at old St. Josephs. He instructedthe faithful and buried his beloved dead in the l
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