Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-12
A BUSY MAN.
Father Mollinger Fully Recovered,
and Up to His Eyes in Work.
HOW HIS DAYS ARE NOW PASSED.
Constantly Besieged by Crowds of Patients,
Whom He Always Treats.
TO.MORROW'S FEAST OF ST. ROCHE

Father Mollinger, of Troy Hill. has now
fully recovered from the exhaustion of his
unprecedented work during the time of the
feast of St. Anthony, in June last. Though
he was compelled to seek rest away from
home, the healing priest was not so greatly
fatigued last June as he was on the same
occasion last year. He was then so weak
from overwork that even after he had re-
turned from short stay in the East he
suffered such relapse at his home on Troy
Hill that for several days all hopes of his
recovery had been given up by everybody.
AT present Father Mollinger enjoys the
best of health, and all his spiritual and sec
ular work is again minutely conducted.
When he rises in the morning-whichm most
of the time is not until nearly o'clock-he
reads mass, sometimes in the chapel in his
residence. But after the mass at 8 o'clock,
which is held in the church, he begins the
work of attending to his patients.
The sick and invalid visitors are increas-
ing in number right along, and it is some
times o'clock before he can leave the office
in the rear of the church to 60 to his house
for dinner.
BOARDING HOUSES WELL PATRoNIzED.
It is nothing unusual to see over 100 af-
flicted anxiously awaiting treatment from
the priest, and at the several boarding
houses near the church there are always
from 10 to 20, and sometimes some of the
afflicted who are from a great distance, re-
main here in many instances for weeks,
awaiting the result of their treatment.
The divine services at the Most Holy
Name Church are more numerous this month
than at almost any other in the year. The
Feast of St. Roche, which takes
nlace tomorrow. will not be attended
with anv especial services, but life-size
statue OF the saint will be placed in the
center aisle of the church, near the sane
tuarv, where it will remain for several
days. st. Roche lived in Rome more than
400 years ago. 1t was during his time that
a great cholera scourge ragged throughout
ali Italy. The saint in his ardent prayer,
it is recorded, healed many, and it was not
long until the disease abated.
THE ROSARY BEING RECITED.
Father Mollinger always reminds the
faithful to intercede to st. Roche in prayer.
Beside the feast of the Holy Rosary, which
always occurs on the first Sunday in Octo-
Der, the Rosary is being recited in great
many churches every afternoon, and es-
pecially is this the case on Troy Hill The
custom is increasing more and more
every year, but only among German
Catholics. This leaves Father Mollinger
very busy ali through this month. Since
he has taken up his treatment of the al
fiicted he has literally abandoned his after
noon duties in his private carriage. His
only leisure time is in the evening, but he
even makes good use of this, in perfecting
the interior of his grand chapel. Though
fully completed, it is not yet altogether
arranged according to his wishes. 1t will
not be long, however, before it will be
opened, but until everything is perfectly
will be permitted in it.