The Republican journal., 1916-12-21
s.,hoIic Church in Belfast
,he Catholic Magazine,]
ii.

llf oa1lected strangers IN a Ior-
SD nes ar we're of that race and
sOd, vi has been the very back
h e3l,' cSnrch in Maine from the
d Ins 6rst Bishop of Baltimore
Of US lays of the present Jealous
70 ne u ,ss See of Portland. Just
tal 81 had then been in Belfast
ofg a.' The town had, however,
t.sl'' this date, 1927, become a
asr0i' inter. with regular sailing
sslia l,s,on and the neighboring
ss " For years even the Brit
sar PROVINCES had sent their
GSiI Dggs,rast, and it was not I'M
d: ~ 49, several of them at anchor
9 " +6or or lying at the wharfs.
la' ."g' s history of Belfast, Vol.
ia','' read In a single week of
"" e,ar vessels arrived from the
l'-g ,-,Sres; one of them bringing
r. y. .iggsssngers. Catholic irish
.Fiso psre then landing in large
gs s.. John, N. B., many of
bSsi Already following the trails
W., alr State, destined to settle
PROV ,Fers as The case may have
ao few to lose eventually
,i4tiou and laca of practice
ale' e.rb mad been theirs for many
' a. That most, if not all, of
easi' migrants arriving in Belfast
li'' .-,0T msntioned by Mr.. Will
-. Catholics would seem
a@' That many of them drifted
s -. A5Emg towns to clear their
J4ui, rear their humble
--a ally numerous family
Is -.r That we find today so
.-- No. the farming towns Of
p ,us l-alug names OF unmls-
~ . rlgin, families that can
,..,rauie position among the
.-s largely due 70 the al
T ... ....uN Of emigration that
- ....ua 10 St. John, thence
a,.. To have followed
.. .o+ as they drifted from
l.n-r would have been
sI....lm4n task, when We
'-,. ...t .ur roads of this ear y
/ as. Ia" w. ID -L'4 tsa ~, " forea t
Egr paths ''lons " VIC W. gu w o'
f gl9 oI- l SI'I a9i'y o 1919" for
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