The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-21

Mary's CITY," he writes. I'VE had
had the opportunity OF visiting and
studying the old home of the Puritan
colonists; and although there were
but few relics remaining-thee Rock,
the Cemetery, two old houses, and the
collections in the Museum, neverthe-
less the old Massachusetts town still
held a fascination for the wayfarer.
The boys who cried out eagerly as
the visitors came near, offering them
/ selves as guides, knew the local his
tory we'll and told it with evident
pride 1t was with the impression
of Plymouth still fresh upon us that
we set out fer st. Mary's City-the
| first town in Catholic Maryland.
| Leaving Washington, by way of Penn
| sylvania Avenue, we passed out on
! the State road which leads Directly
to the coast of Maryland to st. Mary's
City, some seventy miles away. Pass
| ing through BryantoWn, an old Catho-
| lie center, the road swept on to
Leonardtown, and thence to the
| shore of the Potomac, where, scarcely
one hundred yards from the cliff, a
sign tolds us we were at st. Mary's
City. City-there was none. A
Female Academy, built about 1843, a
| single house-the home of the Epis-
copal minister, the Episcopal GENE
terry, and Trinity Church, small
brick building in the midst of the
graves, made up the present settle
| In hn
wooden sign marked the spot of the
| first State House, and another the
| place of the Copley vault. That was
| all. Not a trace remained of this first
| English Catholic city of the New
| World. A little room at the east end
of the Seminary had been set apart
as a Postoffice, and the Postmistress,
| to whom we applied for information,
| advised us to call on the Episcopal
minister or at the Bromes. The min
lister being away, we walked to the
| Bronze residence about a mile away,
and through the courtesy of Miss
| Bronze we had pointed out to us the
location of the different places which
once made up ST. Mary's City. Miss
Bronze is the niece of James Walter
| Thomas, whose volume, Chronicles
of Colonial Maryland has helped
greatly to locate the old landmarks.
| With Thomas's volume in our hand
we traced out the old Fortress, the
spot where Leonard Calvert's home
once stood, the grist-mill, the JAIL
and the plot where the Catholic
Church and cemetery were once
established Not a trace of anything
remains. The Chapel wars situated in
the center of one of the Bronze farms,
but no relics have been found there
AS is we'll known, it was closed out
of bigotry, by order of the Provincial
Government, September 10, 1904, and
the bricks we're removed to build the
Chapel at st. Inigoes. Treacy in his
old Catholic Maryland speaks Of this
lonely Gods Acre, of which not a
stone remains; and Mcmahon, His
torical View of the Government OF
Maryland strikingly says: Should
the memory of such a people pass
away from their descendants as an
idle dream?' Eighteen years from
now Catholic Maryland will be cele
brating the three-hundredth anniver
sary of the Founding of ST. Marys
and surely something might be done
to commemorate this sacred event
The Calvert Monument, erected by
the State of Maryland, in 1890, on
what is presumably the Calvert grave
| Tsly
distinguish the Catholic associations
of the place. At Plymouth they told
us of the plans already being put into
shape for the great celebration OF
1920. Will silence greet the Feast OF
the Annunciation, in 1884, at old St
Mary's?"
American CapitoIine Hill.
Among the other valuable contribu-
lions to this number of the Review
are Margaret Downing's study on
1.-THE American Capitoline Hill and
IT'S Early Catholic Proprietors," in
which the writer traces the history
of the Catholic owners of the land on
which now stands the Capitol OF
| Washington. The editors have
printed the full authentic text OF
Cardinal O'Connells address before
the Federation of Catholic Societies
entitled "Our Country"
The Catholic Historical Review is
young in the field of Catholic publica-
lions, but it has made already for it.
self a place in the scientific work
of our schools which can hardly be
surpassed. BY its scholarly appear
ance and true intellectual worth, the
Review gives evidence of what the
Church in this country is capable OF,
when properly encouraged and sup
ported.