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 . lukewann to a sense oftheir Clu-istian duties. The sermons and exhortations ofRev. Messrs. Deshon, Dwyer, Elliot, and Rosecrans pro-duced as immediate fruit a thousand communi(ins and anew spirit of foitli. In 1875, the Rev. Mr. Brennau A\as transferred byhis Eminence Cardinal McCloskey to the Church of of Lima, and the Rev. James Galligan, the jjres-ent
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 . lukewann to a sense oftheir Clu-istian duties. The sermons and exhortations ofRev. Messrs. Deshon, Dwyer, Elliot, and Rosecrans pro-duced as immediate fruit a thousand communi(ins and anew spirit of foitli. In 1875, the Rev. Mr. Brennau A\as transferred byhis Eminence Cardinal McCloskey to the Church of of Lima, and the Rev. James Galligan, the jjres-ent pastor, was installed at the Church of the HolyName, -^vhich has prospered in every way imder his care. The pastors of the Holy Name omitted nothing tointerest the congregation in the church, by establishingsocieties into which all might ha induced to enter. TheRosary and Altar societies, the Children of Mary, theSodalities of the Holy Angels, the Holy Childhood, andSt. Aloysius, stimvilate the piety of all ages and Young ]\Ieus Literary Society affords those attainingmanhood the means of intellectual culture; the Conference(jf the Society of St. Vincent de Paul blends them to-gether in the great Avork of CilUKUlI OF THE HOLY NAME OE JESUS. 353 REV. JA:\[r:S M GALLIGAN, PASTOR OF TlIK CHURCH OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS. ^ f ^ilE pressent pastor of the Church of the HolyI Name Avas born in the County Cavan, Irehmd, and was educated at St. Patricks College, in his nativediocese, one of the greatest of -the literary institutionsin Ireland. After he had pursued the course of studiesthere for four years he resolved to make the UnitedStates the field of his missionary labors, and havino-come to this country he entered the Seminary of OurLady of the Angels, near the Suspension Bridge overNiagara Falls. His course of studies was, however, sud-denly interrupted here by an luitoward accident. Theinstitution was destroyed by fire on the 5th of December,1864. He at once
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