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his first Holy Communion and was
confirmed and Immediately prepared

AOA AsoAAS.
In Rome he met James Roosevelt
Bayley, who died Archbishop of Balti-
more, but who then was young
Episcopalian minister and whose
mind was all upset about the truth of
Episcopalianism, and who had gone to
Rome to seek the truth. He met the
right person in the new convert, Mr..
Haskins. So eager and so quick to
learn and to act was Mr.. Bayley that
in a few weeks he was baptized and
made his first communion and was
confirmed in the rooms of st. lgnatius,
at Rome. He was ordained Il priest
in Rome IL year later.
Mr.. Haskins spent year travelling
i'll Europe, visiting the cathe,lrals and
charitable institutions, and then en-
tered the Grand Seminary Of Paris,
where the present Archbishop of Bos-
ton, Most Rev. John J. Williams, was
also a student for the priesthood at
the same time and who was ordained
i'll 1916, year later than Father Has
kins. The need OF priests in the
diocese of Boston was very great, not
more than thirty-onc, including Bishop
Fenwick, to cover all New England,
so Father Iaskins was hurried home
from Paris. and after some minor
ministrations in Providence and South
Boston, was finally settled as pastor
of st. Johns church on Moon street,
at the North End. The church was
built on the site of the house of the
famous Cotton Mathcr. Here from
1916 to 1862 he became u purt of the
daily life of his people, personally
knowing and known by every one of
demonstrating in their homes, interest
ing himself i'll their domestic life and
especially with the young welding an
incalculahle influence for good. In
1862 his little church proving too
small for his fast growing congrega-
ton, lie bought the North, End Con-
gresational church, and fitting it for
Catholic worship had it dedicated to
st. Stephen. Here he remuined pas
tor till he died, in 1872. While he was
still pastor of st. Johns his pla hobby
the care of boys-began t,ltake DOS
session of him. In all New England
there was not one Catholic asylum for
boys. =. Not only were Cn,lnlic boys
i'll asylums or reformatories denied
the visits of their clergymen, but. as
Father Haskins knew from his own
experience. every effort was made to
snatch them from the errors and
superstltions of wpery." When
young Capt. Shurtlefr. son of Nath-f
aniel G. Shurtleff, of honored memory,
who became Il convert and iii his new
born zeal undertook charge of ST.
Mary's Sunday school in Endicott
street, on one occasion insisted on
entering IL Protestant sunday school.
i'll which he knew some OF st. Mary's
children to be entrapped and detained,
lie was arrested ana marched through
the streets to Jail.
Father Haskins felt it was time
something was done for respectable
Catholic boys, wlo had no parents or
parents too poor to properly attend
to them, and Who were being sent
to Protestant a,ylums and reformato>
ries. Father Haskins went to the
Bishop for le.ve to undertake the
building of q lone for boys. He was
allowed to appeal first in the Cath
c(lral for heb. Father Haskins' an
peal for homeless boys must have
been eloqutht, for the collection that
followed amounted to $1.7OO, and in n
few month, he had $1,000 IA good sum
for those days.
In 1851 Father Haskins, with the
consent II the bishop, secured the fine
site noI occupied by the House of
the An;el Guardian OH Vernon street,
in the Highland district
The next year saw the building
iSttu. AoA occupancy. i Hc uOFlulCO-
ries fitted up with three hundred
bed. The refectory. where four
huhrcd boys could sit at one table;
spcious class rooms and broad STAIR
c:ses, and not the least, magnificent
pay ground; the chapel where
nousand could comfortably hear mass
md throng of boys eager to gain ad-
mittance. The House of the Angel
Guardian was now firmly established
and all Father Haskins' desire now
was to secure religious brotherhood
to take charge of it. Belonging to
the diocese, with the bishop in control,
it still needed the systematic and un-
divided attention that only brother
hood could give it. He begged in
every country in Europe for Brothers
to take charge of the House of the
Angel Guardian, but no community |
could spare any. Only after his death
were his prayers heard, and band
If the Brothers of Charity, headed by
he wise and pious Brother Jude, now
give their whole lives and undivided
attention to making the House of the
Angel Guardian a home and school
n the best sense, whence brave, USE
'ul men-good citizens and good Cath
,lics-are sent into the world every
year. Since its foundation the House