Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-24
REV. FATHER o,RE1LLY.


The following, relative to the mission of
Rev. Father O'Reilly to this place, extracted
from the Virginia correspondence Of the San
Francisco Monitor, furnishes information
which will be Of interest to the Catholic por-
ton of the community:
Though these two churches Those at Virgil
NAL are large, being 40x90 feet in extent, and
having different Masses every Sunday, you can
form some idea of the number of Catholics in this
place, when l tell you they are crowded at each
service. These two being confined TO the city of
Virginia. il has become necessary, from the vastly
increasing numbers of Catholics at Gold Hill,
American Flat, and the adjacent towns and VII
lagos to have church erected and priest resi-
dent for the accommodation Of these places The
Right. Rev. DIR. O'Connell, the Bishop of this do
cese, has been pleased to respond most satisfac'
torily to the representations made of this neces-
sity by appointing to this mission the Rev. Father
O'Reilly, Of Weaverville, who has humbly sub
United to the orders Of the Superior, by taking
OH himself the onerous duties attendant on the
establishment of new missions such as this, when
O church has TO be built and means provided for
that end The church Is TO be located in some
central place in Gold Hill, and to be commenced
at once His Grace has been most fortunate i'll
his selection, in placing Rev. MIR. OReiily IN
charge oi this difficult and important undertaking
undertaking be more certain, to arrive ut sue
cessful and speedy establishment, 'hnn In his,
who during the six years of his good and pious
illustrations in this District, has brought to com
pletion,t under his own supervision, and by his
own interchangeable exertions in the various mis-
sions with which he was charged, no less than
three Churches, every one Of which he left clear
of debt, built and finished in every way worthy
of the object for which they were erectedi such
was his extraordinary success in all his pious un.
dertakiugs of this sort that his superiors most read
lis took advantage of his exceeding abilities as II
founder of churches aud religious worship therein
and 10 kept changing him from that last completed
TO the next place where the spiritual wants OF
the people most called for his Christian lRbors.
And thus has he been transferred to his fourth
field of operations, there to add one more TO those
already raised to the honor and glory OF the
Master to whom alone his entire life Is TO serve,
and to bring the consolation of holy religion still
nearer to those good and Jealous souls, who s."
earnestly have shown their love for true faith III
calling for and offering the means to sustain Il
Priest amongst them as well AZ in pledging their
contributions for the erection OF a church Thest
people are most highly pleased on learning
through letter, received from their Bishop, that
Rev. Father oReilly has been appointed their
Pastor He is already well known to the majority
of them, as well from their former residence III
California IN from his recent visit amongst them.
while collecting funds for the purpose of lqui
dating the debt of the Cathedral ut Marysvi!le :;
as also TO assist in procuring additional Priests
from ALI Hallows, Dublin. In this too. has tht
reverend gentleman been most successful, much
beyond his anticipations, especially at Virginia
City and Gold Hill, as also in the various town.
in the counties of Nevada and Sierra: every.
where he called he has been most kindly received
by the generous hearted miners, whose noblr
and unbOunded liberality be is most proud to be
able to acknowledge. J. X. NJ