Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-09-01

coIouF- Ine Old vesper bell which
rang out tho hour Of the Angelus
for Jears to the people Of the neigh
borhood Of st. Inigoes, and which
was on exhibition in New Orleans
s. The Cotton exhibit, is now in the
museum 1t Georgetovn College.
A helongea 10 St. Inigoes Church
on6 ~ brought from England.
6nd 6horch erected e st.
l1Isoea - built by Father Jsmes
J = 20
field near the sacred ediIIo4 49,
cornerstone was laid July Is, 1855.
This church was completed and
opened in 1888, the dedicatory SER
mon being preached by Rev. Fran
els Neale, of Charles county, a bro
ther of the Most Rev. Leonard
Neale, who died Archbishop Of Bal
timore. Father Francis Neale had
returned from the college of Liege,
Belgium, in the Spring of that year.
Father j. Pye Neale, who was sta
toned at st. Inigoes for IL years,
and was the great repository of all
the traditions connected with the
earliest Jesuit missions Of Mary
land, was a member of the same
family, which gave seven OF its
members 1.-THE Jesuit Order.
Father Walton died at st. Ini-
goes in 1903, and is buried in
the cemetery which surrounds the
church he built. He was succeed
ed by Father Sylvester Boarman,
another Charles countian. In the
present century the best known of
the Fathers who administered to
the congregation at st. Inigoes was
the Rev. Joseph Carbery, who was
pastor for period extending over
nearly 80 years. Many living Ma
rylanders yet speak Of him in the
most endearing praises and remem-
Der with pleasure his great hospi-
tality. At his death his people
raised a monument TO his memory
in the cemetery, which is the only
one erected to any pastor of st. In
goes. Father Joseph Desribes is
now in charge of the pastorate. A
mile from his residence is the
church, and the road to it passes
through the lands of Mr. William
Raley.
The earliest landmark of Catho-
licity in Maryland is thought to be
a small slab of brown stone which
is affixed to the front of the belfry
erected in 1889 by Rev. j. b Gaff-
ney, then pastor. This stone has
sculptured in it 81. III. S.-Mar,"
and cross. 1t is interpreted as a
reference to Jesus and his mother,
Mary. The present pastoral resi-
dence which occupies the site of the
earliest brick house put up in the
first part of the last century and in
part destroyer oy fire in 1879, is on
the extremity of what is known as
Priests Point. The residence is q
two-story brick building, contain
ing a domestic chapel used by .he
fathers and some eight sleeping ap-
partments. In one of the rooms of
the old house, which was destroyed
by fire, could be seen, up to 1872,
the traces Of cannon ball shot
through the house in the early
morning from vessel Of the Brit
ish squadron, which had anchored
in st. Mary's river in 177s.
The tradition circumstances at
the time shows the value of prompt
ness in early rising as practiced by
the Jesuit Fathers. Father Wal
ton, the then pastor, rose promptly
at o'clock in the morning accord
ing to custom aud had just passed
out of the room when the ball came
crashing through the house one foot
above his bed, which he had left
five minutes earlier.
The valuable library collected BY
the fathers during the last century
was in a great measure destroyed
By the fire of 1872. A portion OF
the remainder, those volumes espe-
cially of early dates, were removed
to Woodstock College, the Jesuit
House Of Studies, five years ago.
Several very interesting and old
diaries, dating back to colonial
times, account books and missals
are still preserved at st. Inigoes.
A villa building nearby, which
has been occupied as country
house by the scholasties, the young
er members of the Jesuit order, who
are engaged in the study of phrloso-