History of the Catholic Church in the United States . to buildup Catholicity in the West.^ See the admirable Life of this holy priest by Right Rev. C. P. Maes,Bishop of Covington. ^ Bishop Maes, The Life of Rev. Charles Nerinckx, Cincinnati,1880, pp. 100-112 ; Webb, The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky,Louisville, 1884, pp. 194-9 ; Spalding, Sketches of Kentucky, Louis-ville, pp. 163, etc. ; Relation de ce qui est arrive a deux Religieux dela Trappe pendant leur sejour aupres des Sauvages, Paris, 1824 ; Pope, Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul, Charlottetown, 1886. KENTUCKY. 529 Rev. Mr. Ner
History of the Catholic Church in the United States . to buildup Catholicity in the West.^ See the admirable Life of this holy priest by Right Rev. C. P. Maes,Bishop of Covington. ^ Bishop Maes, The Life of Rev. Charles Nerinckx, Cincinnati,1880, pp. 100-112 ; Webb, The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky,Louisville, 1884, pp. 194-9 ; Spalding, Sketches of Kentucky, Louis-ville, pp. 163, etc. ; Relation de ce qui est arrive a deux Religieux dela Trappe pendant leur sejour aupres des Sauvages, Paris, 1824 ; Pope, Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul, Charlottetown, 1886. KENTUCKY. 529 Rev. Mr. Neriuckx resided for a time witli Rev. Mr. Badinat St. Stephens, but before the close of his first year he re-moved to the house erected by Rev. Mr. Fournier on RoUingFork. Here a frame church had been hastily erected by thepeople, to which, on the feast of the Holy name of Mary, inSeptember, ISOS^ he gave the name of Holy Mary; but onthe 15th of November he laid the corner-stone of a largerand more substantial edifice, though it was to cost only four. CHIJKCH OP ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, LEONARDTOWN, MD. hundred dollars. It was to receive a statue of Our Ladywhich he had brought from Belgium. The next year heerected on Hardins Creek a log church, dedicated to Borromeo, for a congregation of six hundred, whohad been in the habit of meeting at the house of HenryHagan. This was the fourth church in Kentucky. Bishop Maes, The Life of Rev. Charles Nerinckx, pp. 114-9,-Spaldmg, pp. 130, etc. ; 530 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CARROLL. About this time the two Kentucky priests made a journeyto Yincennes, which Bishop Carroll had been unable to sup-ply witli a priest after the death of the zealous Eev. Their sermons and exhortations on the occasion ofthe Jubilee, their assiduity in the confessional and in cate-chizing awakened the faith of the people, and on the 25th ofApril the Yincennes Catholics wrote to Bishop Carroll, im-ploring him to give them a resident pastor. Here w
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