The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-17
ROSE OF LIMA
CHURCH PLANS
=. NEW STRUCTURE
-.autifuI $4,000 Building to
Be Completed Next
January.

The Rev. James 7. Brown. rector of
frSt.. Rose of Lima Church in Short Hills,
has begun the erection of a new
: church building that will cost upward
of S40.O 900. The building will front
forty-hve feet on Short Hills avenue,
neal the new Lackawanna railroad sta
rtion. 1t viii be ninety-five feet long,
will have three entrance doors, and
viii seat 700. There is to be a tower
forty feet high at the southwest cor
s.. .ner.a The interior walls will be orna-
mented with statues of saints and new
stations of the cross. The altar in the
present church will be the main altar
in the new church. and there are to be
W new affairs, one in honor of the
Blessed Virgin, the other of st. Joseph.
49, The Rev. James T. Brown has been
rector of the. church two years. He
has paid off all the debt and expended
81, 900 for improvements. His congre-
A. cation is not large. but the people are
: generous lin their contributions for
church purposes. Father Brown eX-
poets to have the new church COM
pleted in January next. BY that time
the subscriptions will amount to about
$40, 600. The general style of the archi-
ttctlre is R~omanesque. but at the
front there will be also Venetian n
Spanish features. ". y. Poland is the
architect and Daniel A. DuSan, OF
Trenton. is the contractor.
Father Brown is a native OF New Jer-
sey. He was graduated from the Tren-
ten High School, made his course in
theology in st. Charles College, Mary
land. and was ordained a priest i'll
Seton Hall in 1892. Early in 1907 he
was appointed rector of st. Rose OF
Lima Church..
V,~St. Rose of Lima's parish has an In
-tefesting history, going back almost to
tbs American Revolution, when some
Catholics. who were driven from st.
Dominic by an uprising of negroes,
lived for a time in lower Springfield. 1t
is SAID that a priest named Prout yls-
tied them. That vas before 1905. when
a priest from old St. Peters Church, in
Barclay street, New York, attended
~ Catholic families who settled at Bottle
Hill, now Madison. He came By boat
to Elizabethtown, and from hence went
in a stage. Father Moran, rector #
sSt.r Johns Church, Newark, the second
oldest Catholic church in New Jersey,
visited the Catholics in the country.
y After 1882 he said mass in the house of
Charles Fury, at Springfield. In 1874
the Rev. Louis ID. SeneZ, who was the
first rector of st. Patrick's Church, now
the. Cathedral, Newark, went from the
mission at Madison and said mass on
week DAYS at the house of Michael
English in Springfield. and at the homo
OF John Hogan, whose descendants live
in Newark, at Short Hills.
The Rev. Bernard J.. McQuaid, who
became the first president of Seton Hal!
College and later bishop of Rochester,
y. Y, used to go from Madison, in 1S49,
and say mass once a month at Daniel
1C~oghlan's home, at Springfield. In 1852
Mr. Coghlan gave an acre of lana.
Father McQuaid erected on 1t a frame
church 40x30 feet, at a cost of $l,600
:. Very Rev. John Loughlin, v~icar-general
of New York city, blessed the church.
He. was assisted by Father McQuaid.
Very Rev. Dean Patrick Cody, of st.
James's Church, Newark, served as
altar boy at the blessing. Father Nc
Quad was made pastor of st. Patrlck's,
Newark, in September, 1858. and he
mas succeeded at Springfield by the
Fey. NJ. a. Maiden, who built an addi-
hcn to the church in 1855.
After Father Madden left in 1854 the
church was served by priests from
Seton Hall. among them the Rev.
Michael 4. C~orrigan. later bishop of
the diocese of Newark, and then arch
bishop of New York; the Rev. r. j. Nc
Quaid. the Rev. J. e. Martin, the Rev,
Cody, the Rev. W J. Wiseman and
The, Rev. James H. Corrigan. While the
Rev. Louis Schneider had charge of
the mission six acres of land were pur-
CHASED, and in 1869 a parochial school
was established. Miss Kate Bruner, of
New York, gave the church a bell in
1871. The Rev. Thomas ]. Toomey, late
rector of st. Joseph's. Newark, served
the church in 1873 and the Rev. Wynant
NJ. Wigger, late bishop Of Newark, in
1874.
The Rev. l.. S. Degnault was the first
resident rector, and the Rev. Joseph
lRolando was rector until 1881. A sis
ters' home was erected for the Sisters
of Notre Dame in 1879. In 1880 the
Z church was moved to Short Hills. The
Rev. George n. Corrigan, now rector
of st. Joseph's, Newark, was rector Of
st. Rose of Lima Church from 1881 to
1887, when the Rev. Daniel II. McCar-
thy succeeded him Father Brown
came to the church in 1901. There are
about 1000 persons in the parish. The
societies connected with the church are
the League of the Sacred Heart. the
Rosary. the Sodality of the Blessed
Virgin. the Children of Mary and the
Holy Name Society.
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