The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-15

king OF France, In 1908 Bishop Laval OF
Quebec went there and thus gave to Yer
mont the honor of the first episcopal Wis
itation and ministration in New Eng
land and probably in the United States
During the years that followed, Jesuit
and other missionaries traversed the
state and left the evidences of their
zeal in the converted Indians and the
Catholic settlers in many villages. In
1884 there We're fourteen Catholic fam
lilies grouped about chapel at Alburg
After Canada had been ceded to the Eng
lish in 1850, many New England emf
grants went to Vermont, but the bish-
ops of Quebec still continued to look aft
er the Catholics there. When the do
cese of Boston was created in 1910 the
state of Vermont was included within
its jurisdiction, and the venerable Father
Matignon of Boston visited Burlington
in 1915 and found about one hundred
Catholic Canadians there without priest
or church. Father Migneault of Cham
bly,, Canada, was a frequent visitor for
a number Of years, ninstering to the
scattered families along the border. Fa-
Their James Fitton of Boston was another
pioneer priest. The first resident priest
in Vermont was the Rev Jeremiah O'Cal-
laghan, native OF Cork, Ireland, whose
eccentric notions on the question of
usury got him into difficulties with the
bishop Of his native diocese; he was sent
/ to Burlington in 1880 by Bishop Fen.
wick and remained there until 1854, his
influence and pastoral zeal radiating far
and wide. He built st. Peters church,
Burlington, in 1882. He died az Hol.
yoke, Massachusetts,, Feb 20, 1861. In
| 1897 the Rev. John ID. DAILY. another
eccentric but learned man, comp aneed
to care for the missions in the southern
part of the state and labored until 1854,
when he retired TO New York, where he
died in 1870. Notable also among the
priests ministering in the state during
this early period were Fathers William
Ivers, George Hamilton, p. Drolet and
Nj. Cheyalier. In lS43 the Catholics of
the state numbered 4,040, but the build
ing of railroads and the establishment
of numerous public works soon brought
steady increase.
''ln II on the petition of the bishops
OF the province of New York, the pope
erected Vermont into diocese with Bur.
lington as the titular city. The Very
Rev. Louis DE Goesbriand, then vicar.
general of the diocese OF Cleveland, Ohio,
was named the hrst bishop and conse.
Grated in New York by Archbishop Be.
DIM, October 80. 1853. He was born
Aug. 4, 1916, at Saint Urbain, Finistere,
France. He studied at nt.Sulpict, |
Paris. and was ordained priest at st. |
Louis, y. s. A., July 80, 1870. He found |
on his arrival in Vermont five priests, |
ten churches and about 10000 Catholics. |
In January. 1855, he went to Europe to |
secure priests in Ireland and France, and |
with the aid OF those who answered his |
appeal for volunteers. new parishes were |
organized, churches built schools opened |
and the work of evangeliaing went on |
vigorously. The first diocesan synod was |
held In Burlington October and s. 1858, /
at which nine priests attended. On July |
II, 1890. Bishop De Goesbriand eelebrat. |
ed the golden jubilee OF his ordination /
and in 1892 he asked for a coadjutor.
The choice fell on the Rev. John Stephen I
Miehaud, then pastor at Bennington. the
son OF an Irish mother and Canadian I
father and born at Burlington Noyem.
Der "a, lS43 He made his studies at
st. Joseph's seminary Troy. New York.
dilA was Oihdlitu lltHb June - iof .. iit
was eonseerated titulaf bishop of Modra
and eoadjutor Of Burlington, June 20,
1892. Bishop De Goesbriand retired to
live in the orphan asylum at Burlington
and died Nov. g. 1890, the dean of the
American hierarchy. Bishop Michaud
succeeded TO the see Bish.
OPP DE Goesbriand was one OF the pre-.
lates who attended the vatican council
in 1869.
"The religious communities now rep
resented in the diocese are the Fathers
of Saint Edmond C.. S. e., the Broth
ers of st. Gabriel Sister of Charity of !
Providence, Sisters of the Holy Cross
and OF the Seven D0lours, Sisters Of the
Holy Ghost, ladies OF St Joseph, Sisters
of st. Joseph, Hospital Sisters OF st.
Joseph, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of the
of Notre Dame, of the
OF the Sacred Heart OF
Jesus and of the Assumption. There
are in the diocese 90 priests, IS secular,
ii regular; 95 churches, 20 with resident
pastors and n missions with churches;
20 stations; 2T5 women in religious COM
Is ecclesiastical students in
the diocesan seminary academies for
boys, for girls; p parish schools with
6,096 pupils; 2 orphanage schools with
260 pupils 220 orphans in the diocesan
asylum; colleges for boys; hospitals;
population estimated at 1888;
children under Catholic care, 6,l75. The
hospital at Winooski park is named
after Fanny Allen, daughter of General
Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame and
the first woman of New England birth
to become a nun"