Diary and visitation record of the Rt. Rev. Francis Patrick Kenrick
Subtitle: administrator and bishop of Philadelphia, 1830-1851, later, archbishop of Baltimore
Publisher: Wickersham Print. Co.
Published: 1916
Place of publication: Lancaster, Pa.
Language: eng
Description: tr. and ed. by permission and under the direction of His Grace the Most Rev. Edmond F. Prendergast.
Table of contents: title: SUMMARY OF CONTENTS; title: 1830, July 7th, arrived in Philadelphia.; title: Wilmington, St. Peter's, Aug. 8th.; title: Sisters of Charity, Rev. Patrick Kenny. Rev. George A. Carrell. Church formerly begun at New Castle.; title: Pleasant Mills, N. J., Aug. 15th. The only places attended from Philadelphia, Pleasant Mills and Trenton.; title: Rev. William O'Donnell, O.S.A.; title: FIRST VISITATION. 1830; title: Reading. Rev. Boniface Corvin, S.J. Rev. Edward McCarthy, S.J. Pottsville. Rev. John Fitzpatrick. Rev. Edward McCarthy, S.J.  Littlestown. St. Aloysius.; title: Conewago. Rev. Matthew Lekeu, S.J.  Paul Kohlmann, S.J.  Michael Dougherty, S.J.; title: Pigeon Hill. Rev. William Beschter, S.J.; title: Ordinations at Conewago, September 23, 24, 25 and 26. McSherrystown. Foundation for support of a school.; title: The Mountain Church.; title: Chambersburg. Taken ill at Chambersburg.; title: Waynesburg and Path Valley attended from Chambersburg. Bedford. Title to church property at Bedford.; title: Harman's Bottom attended from Bedford. The Riddlemoser "Foundation." Newry also a mission attended from Bedford.; title: Youngstown. O'Neill's Victory. Rev. Theodore Browers' "Foundation" in the hands of trustees.; title: Greensburg. Pittsburg, St. Paul's. Purpose to appoint Father Rafferty rector here. The Poor Clares in Pittsburg.; title: Blairsville, church blessed.; title: Camerons Bottom. Land for the support of a priest. Ebensburg. Loretto. Father Gallitzin.; title: Newry. Old church here.; title: Huntingdon. Beliefonte. Sinking Valley. Williamsburg. Petersburg. Fort Littleton. Waynesburg. Lewistown. Clearfield. Harrisburg. St. Patrick's. Sisters of Charity have school here. Lebanon, attended from Harrisburg.; title: Lancaster. Congregation losing numbers.; title: Elisabethtown, Columbia attended from Lancaster.; title: Return to Philadelphia, Nov. 8, 1830.; title: Confirmation in St. Mary's and Holy Trinity.; title: Jubilee services in the four churches of the city.; title: Trustees at St. Mary's.; title: Explains position to the congregation at St. Mary's.; title: First Lenten Pastoral issued Jan. 10, 1831.; title: Ordination of Rev. Thomas Gegan, Mch. 6, 1831.; title: St. John's, Manyunk, blessed, April 4, 1831.; title: Jerome Keating.; title: Trustee election, April 5, 1831.; title: New Castle, Del. St. Peter's blessed, April 10, 1831.; title: Trustees' troubles persistent, at St. Mary's.; title: St. Mary's closed April 18, 1831.; title: Explains reasons for interdict, April 22, 1831.; title: St. John's (Evangelist), corner-stone laid, May 6, 1831.; title: Trustees yield. St. Mary's reopened, May 24, 1831.; title: St. Michael's cemetery blessed June 12, 1831.; title: Keating, John and Jerome. The French Asylum in Bradford, Co. Citizen of the U. S. June 29, 1831.; title: Wilmington. Coffee Run. Father Patrick Kenny.; title: Trustee annoyances.; title: "My wealth is trust in God's providence."; title: West Chester. "Foundation" here.; title: Trustees.; title: SECOND VISITATION. 1831; title: Newry by way of Lancaster, Harrisburg, Hollidaysburg, August 2d to August 6th.; title: Parish Limits fixed, and missions to be attended, from Newry and Bedford. Rev. John O'Reilly and Rev. Thomas Heyden. Sinking Valley. McMullen.; title: Derry Township Church estates. Father Browers' purchase. Sportsman's Hall. O'Neill's Victory. Pittsburg. Fr. Chas. B. Maguire — Waynesburg, Green Co., Church property there in name of Archbishop John Carroll — church unfinished — to be attended from Brownsville.; title: Confirmation in the Convent of the Poor Clares, Pittsburg.; title: Butler. St. Peter's. Land for church and cemetery.; title: Buffalo Creek. Land for the support of a priest.; title: Freeport. Church property in name of Father O'Neill.; title: Lawrenceburg. Slippery Rock.; title: Pittsburg. Arrangement for the proper control of church property. The nuns of St. Clare.; title: Brownsville by steamboat. Church here built by Father Rafferty.; title: Gettysburg. Church blessed. Ordinations in Gettysburg.; title: Visits Baltimore. Returns to Philadelphia.; title: Stephen Girard's funeral Dec. 30, 1831.; title: THIRD VISITATION. 1832; title: Lebanon. St. Mary's attended from Goshenhoppen and Harrisurg. Father Patrick Leavy assigned to the charge of Huntingdon and Bellefonte. Preaches in St. Patrick's, Harrisburg, Governor Wolf and many members of State Assembly in audience. Permit to build a church at Middletown. Elisabethtown to be attended from Harrisburg. Church here (St. Peter's) built in 1799.; title: Trenton, N. J. Title to church property here.; title: Rev. Wm. Whelan here from Bardstown.; title: St. John the Evangelist's blessed, April 8, 183a.; title: Father Geo. A. Carrell at Wilmington.; title: First Diocesan Synod, May 13-15, 1832.; title: THIRD VISITATION CONTINUED.; title: Pottsville, Church estate in Pottsville. From Pottsville to Susquehanna County. Mr. Edward White at Derwent Lake. Request for a priest sent to Bishop of Limerick. Church in Friendsville. Father Jeremiah Francis O'Flynn, pioneer priest of Susquehanna County. Church property at Silver Lake — Montrose — Wilkesbarre — Rev. Wm. J. Clancy in charge of Silver Lake and Carbondale. Berwick — Danville — -Milton — Rev. J. J. Curtin. Church property at Milton held by Jesuits. Land for support of a priest. Cemetery in Northumbria. Unfinished church at Selinsgrove Goshenhoppen. Missions attended from Goshenhoppen. Rodrigue property purchased. A church property at Mantua. Patrick Bradley, first seminary student — Wilmington, The orphans and school. Cholera — The services of Sisters of Charity, asked, given, acknowledged.; title: THIRD VISITATION, CONTINUED. 1832; title: Elizabethtown attended from Harrisburg. Clearfield — Church; title: dedicated — Ground given by Mr. Boone — Alsatians in Clear held County — Grant to build a church at Grampion Hills. Bellefonte — Huntingdon — Williamsburg — Newry — Ebensburg — Hart's Sleeping Place — St. Joseph's church and cemetery. Loretto, St. Michael's — Title to church estate insecure — Father Gallitzin believes title good by " prescription " — Cameron's Bottom — Church land here held by Wilcox heirs at " Old Chester." Poor Clares' Convent, Pittsburg — Harman's Bottom — Ground given and church built by Riddlemoser. Waynesburg, Franklin County — Chambersburg — Path Valley — Church built thirty years. Ordinations, Minor Orders and Subdeaconship in St. Francis Xavier's, Gettysburg. Returns to Philadelphia.; title: 1833; title: St. Mary's School in charge of Sisters of Charity.; title: St. Michael's Corner Stone laid April 8, 1833.; title: Sisters of Charity give up charge of Poor House.; title: FOURTH VISITATION. 1833; title: En route to Newry with Fr. Michael Hurley, O.S.A. Father Thomas Gegan dead, buried at Ebensburg. Death of Fr. Charles B. Maguire, O.S.F. Church to be built thirteen miles from Pittsburg. Cemetery near Pittsburg blessed. Brownsville. Father Stillinger to visit St. Peter's, Brownsville, four times a year: Father Hoerner from Wheeling to attend to the sick. New church at Newry. Returns to Philadelphia.; title: CONTINUATION OF FOURTH VISITATION. 1833; title: Haycock, August 25 — Title to the church property — Rev. Henry Herzog in charge at Haycock. Easton, Mass in home of Michael Kavanaugh.; title: Trustees [at  St. Mary's].; title: FIFTH VISITATION. 1834; title: Conewago — Paradise — Pigeon Hill — Pittsburg, St. Paul's dedicated. Rev. John O'Reilly appointed Rector. Trustees. Freeport — Buffalo Creek — Butler. Rev. Thomas Heyden at Chambersburg — Rev. Terence McGirr at Hart's Sleeping Place and Cameron's Bottom. Murrinsvill. Meadville, no Catholics known here, no means of conveyance — Cussewago Creek. Christ's church built of round logs. Elk Creek — Erie. Preaches in the Court House. Back to Meadville by stage. No place fit to celebrate Mass in Meadville. French families six miles east from Meadville. Invited to preach by non-Catholics.; title: Franklin to Shippensville by stage, then a seven mile walk through the forest — Red Bank, Mass in private house — Permit to build church at Red Bank and Shippensville. Brookeville, two Catholic families here. Clearfield, new church here. New churches building at Grampion Hills and in the French Colony. French families, twenty-three. Philipsburg, Rodrigue and one or two women only Catholics here. Bellefonte, Rev. Patrick Leavy in charge. Jersey Shore, Lycoming county: one woman and infant just baptized only Catholics here. Milton. By way of Northumberland, Danville, Berwick, Wilkesbarre, to Carbondale. Eighteen infants baptized. Rev. Arthur Wainwright comes to the diocese. Through Montrose to home of Mr. Edward White near Derwent Lake. Friendsville church and cemetery blessed. Church at Silver Lake still unfinished. Unable to reach the remnant of the French Colony at Asylum, Bradford Co. Carbondale — Clarkstown or Canaan's Cornera — Irish Settlement, six miles from Mount Pleasant Mass in the humble homes of McAvoy and Murray. Forty communions, confirmations ten. Carbondale — Easton, Mass in a hired hall. St. Jerome's church, Tamaqua blessed, Father Wainwright rector.; title: Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick rector of St. Mary's. The Trustees at St. Mary's — September 28 St. Michael's blessed, Rev. Terence Donah oe rector. School at Laurel Hill by Rev. Jeremiah Keilly.; title: 1835; title: Trustees elected at St. Mary's, April 7. Cemetery of St. Mary's outside the city blessed, June 21.; title: SIXTH VISITATION. 1835; title: Lancaster by stage. Elizabethtown attended by Father Curran from Harrisburg. Confirmation at Harrisburg — Carlisle — Chambersburg, The Rev. Thomas Heyden in charge. Bedford — Father Heyden's aged parents living here. St. Patrick's, Newry. Ebensburg. Rev. Peter Lemke here — Hart's Sleeping Place. Johnstown. Centre and Clearfield counties also under care of Father Lemke — Loretto — Father Gallitzin. St. John Gualbert's, Johnstown blessed. Blairsville — St. Vincent's blessed. Rev. Theodore Browers' foundation — No trustee troubles here, due to Father Stillinger's prudence. The will of Father Browers, and Charter to control the property. Priests present, Fathers Stillinger, Lemke, Rafferty, Masquelet, Mohan — Rev. George A. Carrell on way West to enter the Society of Jesus — Ugly rumor, " newspaper talk," about Poor Clares at Pittsburg to be corrected.; title: Rev. Stephen L. Dubuisson, S.J. , going to Rome. A plan to give St. Joseph's in Philadelphia into the care of the Jesuits in 1837. St. Vincent's to Uniontown. Mass and confirmation in home of Christian Keffer. Preaches in the Court House.; title: Letter from Brownsville to Rome in reference to the division of the Diocese — Reasons for dividing — Names for new Sees.; title: Brownsville — Williamsport, now Monongahela City. Refused a place to preach — Pittsburg. Rev. Stephen Theodore Badin, first priest ordained in U. S. celebrates at Vespers — West Alexandria — church here built by Father Rafferty — attended from Wheeling occasionally. Washington — Mass in the house of a Lutheran lady. Rev. Joseph Stahlsmith sent to Philadelphia — St. Patrick's, Pittsburg.; title: Office of coadjutor resigned.; title: Mass in home of Martin Byrne twelve miles from Pittsburg — Ground given for church by Ambrose Schaeffer — BridgewaterEight infants baptized — Preaches in Beaver Court House. Butler — Preaches in the Court House — Purchase of ground for church authorized. Mercer — Catholics four miles from Mercer — French settlement near Meadville. Mass in home of Patrick McCloskey out from Mercer — Many children baptized — No place to be had to preach in Mercer. The sheriff finds a way to refuse the use of the Court House. By stage over night from Mercer to Meadville: Reaches French settlement eleven o'clock A. M., celebrates Mass, confirms — Forty French families here. Purpose to build church. Mass in home of Philip Maguire near Harxnonsville — Cussewago Creek church blessed — Title to property secured. Mass in home of Augustine Roesch near Elk Creek. Thirty German families here. Mass in home of Mr. Warren near Erie. Preaches in the Erie Court House. Carola Warren baptized. Mass in home of James Magee, near Centreville. Eight infants baptized. Church (St. Stephen's) blessed near Titusville. Twelve infants baptized. Church property to be secured — Mass in the home of Michael McGarrell, Pitt-Hole-Creek. Three infants baptized — Catholic families, Archibald, Fraley, Maguire in Warren County; also Germans — Mass in home of John Henry, Musk-Rat-Bottom, Corn Planter Township. Mass in the home of James Eiserman — Mass in the home of Mary Wolley. Purpose to build church here. Mass in the home of John Moore — Red Bank settlement. Church blessed (St. Nicholas of Tolentine). About twenty-five families, nearly all Germans — Brookville — Preaches in Court House — Clearfield. Church still unfinished. French colony, about twenty miles from Clearfield, 38 families — Mr. John Keating here with the Bishop. Clearfield second time — Lewistown — Lebanon. Return to Philadelphia, Sept. 30, 1835.; title: Goshenhoppen, Church of the Blessed Sacrament dedicated, Oct. 11, 1835. New Castle, Del., St. Peter's. Wilmington, Del., St. Peter's — Trip through state of Delaware; strange dearth of Catholics in this state.; title: 1836; title: St. John's, Manayunk. Rev. C. J. Carter rector — Bishop Brute' here from Europe with recruits for the service. Norristown — cornerstone of St. Patrick's, August 18, 1836.; title: SEVENTH VISITATION. 1836; title: To Bristol by steamboat: to Morrisville by "steam-car", then to Easton by stage — St. Bernard's blessed. Rev. Henry Herzog in charge of Easton and Haycock —; title: Case of Herzog in civil court in Bucks County.; title: Easton to Clark's Corners, 70 miles by stage — Catholic Colony near Mount Pleasant, Wayne Co. — Mass in home of William McAvoy — To Binghamton, N. Y. by stage — Mass, Communion, Confirmation in Binghamton — Church building begun in Binghamton by influence of Mr. Edward White. Silver Lake — church (St. Augustine's) blessed. Friendsville — Carbondale by way of Montrose — Church (St. Rose's) at Carbondale blessed. Nearly one hundred Catholic families here — Wilkcsbarre — Mass in the home of Widow Gorman — Pottsville, Rev. Arthur Wainwright rector in Pottsville. Milton — Rev. Henry Fitzimmons assigned to charge of Carbondale, and other missions in Susquehanna Co Rev. John Fitzpatrick in charge at Milton. Church property at Pottsville. To Loyalsock Creek (now Dushore) by way of Berwick Turnpike. Catholic families living here fifteen years, and never saw a priest in that time — Mass in the home of Darby Deegan — From Loyalsock to Belief onte under difficulties — From Belief onte to Brookville, then " through the woods " to Red Bank — Mass in  St. Nicholas's, Red Bank — Log church (St. Michael's) blessed in Pine Grove Township, seven miles from Shippensville — Church now building in Wolley*s Settlement — by hired carriage to Freeport; by canal to Pittsburg. To Bedford by stage. Rev. Benedict Bayer — Chambersburg — Carlisle — St. Patrick's, Harrisburg, Father Foley in charge — St. Mary's, Lancaster.; title: St. Mary's, Philadelphia; "rights" of the Trustees.; title: 1837; title: New clergy house at St. Mary's occupied Jan. 11. Seminarians move into new quarters — Rev. William Whelan at St. Mary's: is sent to Pittsburg.; title: EIGHTH VISITATION. 1837; title: Elizabethtown, Rev. Pierce Maher and Michael Francis Gallagher. Father Maher assigned to St. Patrick's, Harrisburg, is to attend Elizabethtown — Harrisburg — sending money to Ireland — Carlisle also attended from Harrisburg — Chambersburg, Rev. Patrick Rafferty in charge here. Bedford, has no resident priest now — "Foundation " for the support of a priest by Mr. Harman — Harman's Bottom — Riddlemoser "Foundation " arranged to accord with statute law. A jaunt through the woods; missed the stage; a walk of fifteen miles to Somerset — By stage to Washington — Williamsport (in Washington Co.) Brownsville, St. Peter's church — West Alexandria — Preaches in Lutheran church in Washington. Mass in the home of widow Guth, a Lutheran — Mass in the home of Lady Ihmsen — Use of Methodist church to preach. The Rev. Mr. Bayer at St. Patrick's, Pittsburg.; title: Letter to Prefect of Propaganda referring to proposed new Diocese of Pittsburg. Names proposed. John O'Reilly. Thomas Heyden — James A. Stillinger.; title: Pittsburg. At St. Paul's, Rev. Thomas Heyden, Rev. William Whelan. At St. Patrick's, Rev. Benedict Bayer — Germans. — Sisters of St. Clare — Germans wish to build church in Bayardstown — Church blessed (SS. Peter and Paul's) near Beaver — Ground given by non-Catholic — By boat to Freeport; walks nine miles, then horseback — Buffalo Creek, Rev. Joseph Cody in charge — Murrinsville — Mass in the home of Mr. Murrin — Butler — Missions of the Rev. Joseph Cody and Rev. Michael Francis Gallagher — Mercer — Meadville. Mass and confirmation in the home of John Jennings, near Mercer — French Colony out from Meadville — New church begun by the French — Cussewago Creek — German Settlement, near Elk Creek — Mass in home of Jacob Peffer, Communions, Confirmation. Germans preparing to build church. Girard preaches in Methodist meeting hall. Old Man Ward and his daughters. Erie — Mass on the Porch of Vonowski: sixty communions, forty confirmed. Preaches in the Court House, Erie. The way from Erie to Warren — Mass in the humble hut of Joseph Archbold, nine miles from Warren — Preaches in Court House, Warren, Father Herzog's care in Warren, Erie, Venango, Crawford counties — "Cornplanter " Indian Reserve. Titusville — Mass in the home of Michael McGarrell. Mass in the home of John Henry. St. Michael's church in Venango County — Mass in home of John Moore — Pius Old Man Greenwold — Chant of the Germans not liturgical — Red Bank — Brookville — By stage and private carriage to Clearfield — Rev. Otho Borgess in Clearfield county one year. French Colony, in need of vestments and missal. Church in Clearfield still remains unfinished. Father Borgess resident in Bellefonte — Lewistown. Few Catholics in Mifflin County. By stage forty-five miles to New Berlin, thence to Northumbria. By canal to Milton — A resident priest for Milton — Will of Mr. Spring — Pottsville — Rev. Arthur Wainwright here in charge. Reading — Visitation finished.; title: Rev. Edward Barron from Ireland, Oct. 21. Father Barron given charge of the Seminary — Trenton, cemetery blessed in Bloomsbury — Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick goes to Pittsburg as rector of St. Paul's and Vicar General for Western Penn. Rev. Edward Barron made rector of St. Mary's and Vicar General.; title: 1838; title: Rev. John Hughes consecrated Coadjutor of Bishop Dubois of New York, January 7, Jan. 8. Takes up residence at St. John's. Henry Balfe, student sent to Urban College, Rome, May 23.; title: NINTH VISITATION. 1838; title: June 13 at Haycock. Rev. James Moloney in charge — Easton — Rev. John Dunn here from Ireland. By stage to Canaan's Corners, 70 miles. Mount Pleasant church blessed. Carbondale — Rev. Henry Fitzsimmons. Montrose — Silver Lake — New Milford. Mass in home of Mr. Peter Byrne. Preaches in school house — Binghamton, N. Y. — Friendsville — 150 families in these two congregations, Friendsville and Silver Lake — Thirty infants baptized at Towanda. St. Basil's church in Cherry Township [Dushore] blessed — Twenty-eight families living here — " Foundation " for a church and support of a priest in Elkland Township; the land is sold for taxes — Milton, Rev. Edward McGennis here — By canal to Lewistown, then on to Huntingdon — By stage from Gaysport to Hollidaysburg and Newry — Father Loughran lives in sacristy at Bellefonte, and attends Lewistown, Clearfield, Carthaus Creek and other places. By railway and horse-back to Father Gallitzin's. Sketch of Gallitzin's life. Harts Sleeping Place, Rev. Peter Lemke here. St. Michael's, Loretto — Preaches in Court House at Ebensburg — Johnstown. Church at Johnstown sold by Sheriff's writ. To Blairsville by canal. Rev. James Ambrose Stillinger here nine years — Statistics for Blairsville and St. Vincent's — By canal to Freeport — Sugar Creek and Butler, Rev. Joseph Cody, number of families. St. Paul's, Pittsburg — Beaver — Butler. By stage through Mercer to Meadville — French Colony church blessed St. Hippolytus — Cussewago Creek — German Colony in Erie County. Mass in the home of Joseph Peffer — Erie — A combination priest's house and chapel — Germans building a church in Erie; ask for a priest — By stage from Erie to Mercer — Mass in home of Mr. Jennings. By stage to Pittsburg — Problems with the Germans in Pittsburg. The chapel in Bayardstown objectionable. By stage to West Alexandria — Preaches in the Court House in Washington — Waynesburg — Mass in a private house — Preaches in the Court House. Church in Waynesburg begun by Father Rafferty, still unfinished. Brownsville — Rev. Michael Gallagher resident here. By stage from Brownsville to Hagerstown, Md. Chambersburg — "The Mountain Church" — Gettysburg — Conewago — York, Father Rafferty here since April — Columbia — Lancaster — Goshenhoppon — Father Bally here — Reading — Returns to Philadelphia, Sept. 17.; title: Pastoral Appeal for the Seminary, Sept. 23.; title: 1839; title: January 22 new seminary building occupied. Consecration of St. Joseph's February 11 — Permit to build St. Francis Xavier's — Location for St. Francis' on Fairmount Road chosen by Rev. Michael O'Connor of the seminary — Rev. Arthur Wainwright dies at Pottsville, May 2. St. Patrick's, Norristown blessed, June 2.; title: St. Francis Xavier's in district of Spring Garden, cornerstone laid, June 10.; title: TENTH VISITATION. 1839; title: June 12, to Lancaster, Rev. Wm. Loughran and Bernard Keenan, companions — Elisabethtown — Harrisburg — Carlisle — Chambersburg. Trustee troubles here — Note on Railway, and other means of travel through the state — By stage from Chambersburg to Youngstown — St. Vincent's — Rev. James A. Stillinger — Pittsburg — Rev. Joseph Prost — Redemptorists have care of the Germans in Pittsburg. The Poor Clares — Trustees and the control of temporalities in Pittsburg — Sisters of Charity in charge of Orphan Asylum — Meadville — French Colony — Meadville to Erie by stage — Preaches in Erie Court House — Germans have erected a building for church use — Title to the property — Germans sincere, but erratic. — Elk Creek German Colony — Mass in the home of Jacob Pfeffer; church is not finished; gives them money to encourage — By way of Waterford to Warren — Preaches in Warren Court House — No place to celebrate Mass in Warren — Pathetic condition of Catholics. Mass in the home of Joseph Archbold — Mass and confirmation in home of Hugo McGarrell — St. Stephen's, near Oil Creek — Franklin: Preaches in the Court House — Mass and confirmation Mr. White — Few Catholic families here — By stage to Butler — Hears confessions, 200 communions, 30 confirmed. Through the woods on horse-back to Sugar Creek — Need of a new church here — Freeport — From Freeport to Pittsburg on canal freight barge. St. Philip the Apostle's near Chartier's Creek dedicated — By way of Washington to Waynesburg. Church in Waynesburg dedicated, St. Ann's — Rev. Michael Gallagher in charge; attends from Brownsville. Mass and Confirmation in home of Egan family in Washington — Mass and confirmation at the home of John Henry Ihmsen — Two days and two nights by stage to Littlestown — James McSherry — Larger church needed here. Conewago — Returns to Philadelphia.; title: Sept. 12 Bishop Flaget of Bardstown returns from Europe.; title: Sept. 15 — Ordinations in St. John's by Bishop Flaget — sketch of Flaget's life.; title: Pottsville: St. Patrick's blessed, Sept. 29 — Sisters of Charity have a school in Pottsville — James A. Miller in charge — Eighty-five miles in twelve hours, with two hour's stop in Reading — Confirmation in St. Denis', Haverford Township.; title: St. Francis Xavier's opened for services, Dec. 1, 1839; built under care of Rev. Michael O'Connor: Rev. Wm. Whelan appointed first rector — Rev. P. E. Moriarty, O.S.A. preaches — Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick returns from Europe, Dec. 7: away eighteen months. December 22, 1839, beginning of St. Patrick's.; title: Fourth Provincial Council of Baltimore — St. Peter's, Wilmington, Del., Rev. P. O'Reilly in charge.; title: ELEVENTH VISITATION. 1840; title: Lancaster, St. Mary's, June 28 — Elizabethtown — Harrisburg — Lewistown — Beliefonte — French Colony in Clearfield County, church blessed, St. Mary's — Clearfield: Provision for finishing church here, St. Francis' — Church blessed (St. Bonaventure's) at Grampion Hills — Red Bank — St. Michael's, Loretto — Father O'Connor preaches in Court House, Franklin — Mass in home of Mr. Clancy — St. Hippolytus' in French Colony out from Meadville — Erie, confirmation in the chapel, and in church of the Germans — Preaches in Girard — By wagon to Meadville — St. Raphael's in Mercer blessed. West Alexandria — Preaches in Lutheran church, in Washington — Mass and confirmation in home of Mr. Rusk — St. Peter's, Brownsville. Total Abstinence campaign — Pastoral on the same subject — Confirmation in Waynesburg (Green County): Father Gallagher's converts. Preaches in Presbyterian church in Jefferson — Confirmation of converts — Mass in home Mr. Hunnel, a convert — St. Philomena's, Pittsburg, also St. Paul's — Blairsville — Johnstown — Jefferson, church blessed, St. Bartholamew's — Loretto — Father Peter Lemk6 in charge here since death of Father Gallitzin, May 6, 1840 — Preaches in Court House, Ebensburg, on Total Abstinence. Newry — Speaks on Total Abstinence in Presbyterian church in Hollidaysburg — Huntingdon — Reading: Rev. F. X. Marshall in charge here. Massillum, a German congregation — Returns to Philadelphia.; title: Norristown, St. Patricks, Oct. 4.; title: Pottsville, Oct. 9 — To Shamokin, Oct. 10, by carriage — St. Edward's, Shamokin, blessed, Oct. 11. Danville: few Catholics here — Berwick: old cemetery here: formerly a chapel; one or two Catholics — Stage over Berwick and Tioga turnpike to St. Basil's: More than sixty families here — Towanda — Friendsville — St. Francis Xavier's, Friendsville still unfinished — Father John Vincent O'Reilly in charge here — "An Israelite truly, in whom there is no guile " — Mass in Binghamton, N. Y. — Church built here by the influence of Mr. Edward White — New Milford — Mass in home of John Boyle — Mount Pleasant Township, lodged in home of Wm. McAvoy — Rev. Henry Fitzsimmons attends this mission from Carbondale — New church (St. Rose of Lima) blessed at Carbondale — Preaches on Total Abstinence — Ground for church given by " The Coal Company " — Property to be conveyed to the ordinary — About 200 families here; fifty at Mount Pleasant — From Canaan's Corners to Easton, 67 miles — From Easton to Bucksville — St. John Baptist's, Haycock — Mass in private Oratory in the Durney home, Montgomery County — Return to Philadelphia, Oct. 30, 1840.; title: Confirmation in St. John's, Manayunk.; title: Confirmation in St. John's in town of Bloomsbury, near Trenton, N. J.; title: Confirmation in Christ's church, West Chester.; title: 1841; title: The Bishop of Nancy and Toul in France here and at Baltimore.; title: Richard Whelan Bishop of Richmond consecrated — Bishop John Joseph Chanche of Natchez here — Bishop John Hughes Coadjutor of New York here.; title: St. Philip Neri's blessed "in Southwark." Plan of Father Dunn for no pew rents.; title: May 25, 1841, news received that Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick is chosen Coadjutor to Bishop of St. Louis — Rev. Daniel F. McDevitt authorized to buy ground for future St. Patrick's.; title: June 6, 1841, St. Francis Xavier's, "near Fairmount" blessed: Father Rafferty in charge.; title: July 10, 1841, Fathers of Congregation of the Mission come here to take charge of the Seminary, Mailer, Burke, later, Penco.; title: Phoenixville, St. Mary's blessed, Oct. 10, 1841. Peter Paul Lefevre consecrated in St. John's Bishop of Zelanum, I.P.I., Administrator of Detroit — Peter Richard Kenrick consecrated in St. Mary's, by Bishop Rosati of St. Louis — Bishop England preached.; title: St. Patrick's blessed by Rev. Michael O'Connor, Dec. 5, 1841 — Rev. Edward Barron leaves for the African missions, Dec. 9, 1841. Bishop Rosati leaves on mission to Hayti.; title: 1842; title: Confirmation, St. Mary's, April 3 — St. Philip's. April 10.; title: Bishop John England of Charleston dies April 11.; title: Bishop Henry Conwell dies April 22.; title: Bishop Benedict Fenwick of Boston, confirms in St. Joseph's church, April 17.; title: Doctor William E. Horner, convert, confirmed by Bishop Hughes, in St. John's, April 18, 1842. Confirmation in the home of Mr. James Wilcox. Ivy Township, Delaware County — Church to be built here — Father Patrick Sheridan in charge.; title: Ladies of the Sacred Heart take charge of School at MeSherrystown — Clergy Retreat in the Seminary — Second Diocesan Synod — "Jubilee" "ad res Hispanicas in melius vertendas" — Rt. Rev. Edward Barron returns from African mission, after four months at Cape Palmas.; title: TWELFTH VISITATION. 1842; title: By Railway to Parksburg — Doe Run — Cemetery here nearly 70 years — Title to property — Father Sheridan desident in West Chester — Lancaster — Columbia — York — Father Philip Sacchi at Paradise, St. Mary's chapel, on Brandt estate — Conewago — St. Aloysius', Littlestown, blessed — Title to this property — Visit to Emmitsburg — Gettysburg — The Mountain Church — Chambersburg. Church blessed, St. Mary's of the Visitation, at Shippensburg. Sermon on Temperance in the open air — By Roxbury to Path Valley: Twenty-three families in this vicinity — Shade Valley visited four times a year by James A. Miller — Communion in O'Connor home — St. Thomas' Bedford — Harman's Bottom: 100 Catholic families here — St. Vincent's — Father Stillinger's account of temporalities.; title: A plan to use St. Vincent's [Father Browers' "Foundation"] for Diocesan Seminary.; title: Cameron's Bottom: Rev. Terence McGirr — Blairsville — St. Mary's, Freeport — St. Mary's, Pine Creek, 7 miles from Pittsburg — St. Philomena's, St. Patrick's, St. Paul's, Pittsburg — St. Philip's, near Chartier's Creek — Parish limits in Pittsburg — First Clergy Conference in Pittsburg: eight priests — Butler, St. Peter's — Speaks on Temperance in Court House — A gift in aid of German church in Clearfield Township. Sugar Creek Township, church blessed — 115 take Total Abstinence " pledge " — New church blessed in Murrinsville: was built by John Murrins; to be transferred to the Bishop. New church near Mercer blessed — Greenville. Mass in home of Mr. Schonmacker. Five baptized — Preaches in school building — By way of Meadville to Erie — St. Patrick's chapel and St. Mary's church Erie — Preaches in the Court House — Elk Creek — Crossingsville — St. Hippolytus* out from Meadville — Confirmation in the home of Francis Magee, near Centreville — Oil Creek — Rev. Patrick Prendergast — Mass in home of Michael McGarrel in Pitt Hole Township — Franklin — Mass in home of Jeremi Clancy — St. Michael's, near Shippensville — Rev. Peter Steinbacher and Patrick Prendergast here present — Clarion: Preaches in the County Prison — Preaches in the Court House — Red Bank — Preaches in Court House at Brookville — Mass in the home of Patrick Dougherty — Through Curwensville to Clearfield — The French Colony — Bellefontc. Rev. Patrick Nugent goes to Chambersburg — By stage from Bellefonte to Jersey Shore. Rev. Nicholas Steinbacher — Nippenose Valley — German Colony — Milton — Rev. Daniel Magorien — Pottsville — Fathers Magennis and Cantwell here — Reading — Goshenhoppen — Phoenixville, attended from Norristown — visitation ended.; title: Chester, St. Michael's corner-stone, Sept. 29, 1842 — Copies of text books Moral and Dogmatic Theology sent to the Pope and to South America.; title: 1843; title: Fifth Provincial Council of Baltimore — New Sees recommended — Bishops, guests here after the Council — Bishop Rosati dies at Rome.; title: 1844; title: THE RIOTS; title: May sixth, the beginnings of strife — Sisters' house at St. Michael's — May seventh, more rioting: no control of the mob — May eighth St. Michael's and St. Augustine's burned. The mob moves on to St. John's; but is frightened off by a rumor of military intervention — Dark days for Catholics — Sunday, May 12 no services in the city churches [note on St. Francis Xavier's and Father Rafferty] — Chapel at St. Michael's, and Mass there June 2 — July fourth, parade of offensive, anti-Catholic emblems arouses feelings of unfriendliness. July fifth: St. Philip's, a new riot centre — War in the streets of Southwark — Wednesday July tenth St. Philip's in the hands of the Bishop — Sunday, the twelfth, Father Cantwell says Mass in St. Philip's — Father P. J. Dunn leaves the city.; title: THIRTEENTH VISITATION. 1844; title: August 25 Port Elizabeth, N. J., Rev. Wm. O'Hara here — Sept. 1 preaches at Villanova — St. Mary's, Lancaster — St. Patrick's, Columbia — St. Patrick's, York. Father Mackin and Father Basil Shorb — Paradise Township, a new church here — Gettysburg — Littlestown — Convent chapel in McSherrystown — School — Conewago Creek — Returns to the city [for ordinations] — Elizabethtown — Carlisle — Harrisburg — Milton — Wilkesbarre — Beaver Meadow — Nesquehoning — Easton — Returns home Oct. 3 — St. John's, Manayunk, Oct. 27.; title: 1845; title: Visit to Europe, Ireland, England, France, Rome. From New York to Cork harbor in twenty days — Cork, April 22 — Dublin, April 24 — Leaves Dublin for Liverpool and London, April 28. From London to Folkstone, May 2 — Boulogne sur mer to Paris, May 4 — Paris to Marseille, May 7 Marseille to Leghorn, by Civita Vecchia to Rome May 14 — Remains at the Irish College two weeks — May 26: "The Pope received me with paternal affection " — May 28 leaves Rome for Lyons — Visits sister of Mr. M. A. Frenaye in Riom — Paris — Dieppe — Brighton — London — Liverpool — Dublin, June 14 — Visits Cullen Brothers in Liverpool — June 19 sails from Liverpool for Halifax, arrives July 1. By way of Boston to New York — At home 11 o'clock, P. M., July 4 — Bishop Edward Barron.; title: FOURTEENTH VISITATION. 1845; title: Reading, St. Peter's, August 22, a new church. Lebanon — Harrisburg — Lewistown, attended from Bellefonte — Father Patrick Prendergast asks to be assigned to Honesdale — Milton — Danville — St. Basil's near Loyalsock — Towanda: church has been built here by Rev. John Vincent O'Reilly, is dedicated SS. Peter and Paul — Evidences of kindly feeling in Towanda — Friendsville — Father O'Reilly acquires land out from Friendsville, probably St. Joseph's College of the future, 1852 — Carbondale — Rev. Heury Fitzsimmons in charge — Honesdale — Rev. Patrick Prendergast assigned here, with care of Mount Pleasant — Seventy-six miles to Easton — Haycock — Lambertville, N. J. — Returns to the city — Pottsville, St. Patrick's and St. John's. St. Peter's, Wilmington, Del — Tam aqua, St. Jerome's — St. John's. Trenton, N. J. — St. Mary's Phoenixville — St. Michael's, Chester — St. Francis Xavier's, Fairmount. Close of the fourteenth visitation.; title: 1846; title: House and grounds near the seminary, present Cathedral property, acquired during month of February — March 20 Sisterhood, Ladies of the Sacred Heart, occupy this House (the Cathedral Residence).; title: FIFTEENTH VISITATION. 1846; title: Wilmington, Del. — Brandywine — St. Mary's, Lancaster — St. Mary's, Elisabethtown — St. Patrick's, Harrisburg — St. Patrick's, Carlisle — St. Mary's, Shippensburg — Christ's church, Chambersburg — The Mountain Church, St. Ignatius — St. Francis Xavier's, Gettysburg — Paradise, The Most Pure Heart of Mary — St. Patrick's, York — St. Peter's, Columbia. Returns to the city.; title: Services for the late Gregory XVI. Goshenhoppen, church of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Reading, St. Peter's new church — Massillum, St. Henry's.; title: September sixth, 1846:; title: Corner-stone of the New Cathedral laid — Sept. 8 on the way to St. Louis — Preaches in Cincinnati — Visits Bishop Flaget — Preaches in Louisville — Preaches in Vincennes — Preaches in St. Louis, Oct. 4 — Returns to Philadelphia, Oct. 17.; title: SIXTEENTH VISITATION. 1847; title: By stage to Bucksville [Haycock] St. John Baptist's — Easton, St. Bernard's — No priest at Bucksville and Easton. Reading, Rev. Basil Shorb in charge — Lebanon, St. Mary's — Harrisburg, St. Patrick's — Milton, St. Joseph's. Nippenose Valley, The Immaculate Conception. Father Nicholas Steinbacher: eighty families here. Belief onte, Rev. Jeremiah Ahern in charge. Lewistown, All Saints — Bishop O'Connor of Pittsburg comes here — St. Mary's, Lancaster — St. Peter's, Columbia — Conewago, The Sacred Heart. St. Aloysius' Littlestown — St. Patrick's, York.; title: June 23 — Returns to the city, occupies new Cathedral Residence.; title: June 27 — Corner-stone laid of new church in Trenton, N. J. — St. Mary's College, Wilmington, Del. — Girls' School of the Sisters of Charity — St. Peter's, Wilmington — St. Paul's in district of Moyamensing blessed — St. Elizabeth's in Port Elizabeth, N. J. — Confirmation in home of John McCrevin, near Dennisville, N. J. — Cape Island — St. Vincent's, Minersville — St. John's, German, and St. Patrick's, Pottsville — Tamaqua, St. Jerome's — Summit, St. Joseph's — Hazelton, St. Mary's — St. Nicholas of Tolentine, Wilkesbarre — Carbondale — Honesdale — Mount Pleasant — Lanesborough — New Milford, Mass in the home of John Boyle — St. Bonaventure's, Auburn Township. John Vincent O'Reilly — Friendsville, St. Francis Xavier's — Towanda SS. Peter and Paul. St. Basil's, in Cherry Township — New church in Albany Township. Danville — Returns to the city; title: Spiritual Retreat: forty priests in attendance. Third Diocesan Synod: Parish Limits — John Timon, first Bishop of Buffalo — St. Mary's, PhoenixviUe — St. Malachy's, Doe Run — Thirteen families here.; title: 1848; title: Guests here, Bishops O'Connor — Henni — Timon — Death of Bishop Wm. Quarter of Chicago — Stephen Badin of Vincennes — Coadjutor of Vicar Apostolic of Glasgow collects here for Scotch missions. Rt. Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick here to see work on Anglican Orders through the press: Receives pallium in St. John's Sept. 3 — Consecration of M. J. Spalding, Coadjutor for Louisville, Ky.; title: Returning from Kentucky visits Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y.; title: Confirmation in Trenton, N. J. — Pottsville — Pleasant Mills, N. J.: congregation here widely scattered.; title: 1849; title: Sisters of the Good Shepherd take charge of St. Ann's Home for Widows, May 24.; title: SEVENTEENTH VISITATION. 1849; title: June 2 goes to Lancaster, St. Mary's — St. Peter's, Columbia — St. Patrick's, York — St. John's, near Shrewsbury — Immaculate Heart of Mary — Paradise — The Sacred Heart, McSherrystown — The Sacred Heart, Conewago — St. Aloysius, Littlestown — St. Francis Xavier's, Gettysburg — St. Ignatius', The Mountain Church. Christ's church, Chambersburg — St. Ferdinand's, Path Valley — St. Patrick's, Carlisle — St. Patrick's, Harrisburg — All Saints', Lewistown — St. John's, Belief onte — Immaculate Conception, Nippenose Valley. St. Joseph's, Milton, St. Joseph's, Danville — SS. Peter and Paul, Towanda, Rev. Basil Shorb, first resident priest here. St. Basil's, Cherry Township — St. Patrick's, Albany Township on the McGovern farm. St. Francis Xavier's, Friendsville — St. Augustine's, near Silver Lake — Visits Mr. Edward White in Binghamton, N. Y. — Honesdale — Beech Wood — Carbondale, St. Rose of Lima — St. Bonaventure's, Harrison — Wilkesbarre, St. Nicholas' chapel — Preaches in the Court House — St. Mary's, Beaver Meadow — St. Patrick's, Nesquehoning — St. Joseph's, Summit Hill — St. Jerome's, Tamaqua — St. Stephen's, Port Carbon, Rev. Daniel Magorien first priest resident here — Pottsville, St. John's Chapel and St. Patrick's — Sisters of St. Joseph in Pottsville — Returns to the city.; title: St. Peter's, Elizabethtown — St. Mary's, Lebanon — St. Peter's, Reading — St. Henry's, Masailluum — The Most Blessed Sacrament, Goshenhoppen — St. Paul's, Burlington, N. J. — St. Peter's, Wilmington, Del.; title: Nov. 20 Father Theobald Mathew here. Remains two weeks — Lectures to great crowds. Dec. 11 Father Mathew goes to Baltimore — Confirmation in St. Joseph's, Brandywine Creek.; title: 1850; title: Death of Bishop Flaget, Feb. 11. Sisters of the Good Shepherd acquire property for their work. Spiritual Retreat, 45 priests — John Possidius O'Dwyer, O.S.A. insane, dies.; title: EIGHTEENTH VISITATION. 1850; title: May 4 St. Mary's, Lancaster — St. Mary's, Shippensburg — Christ's church, Chambersburg — Waynesburg, confirmation in a private house — Old church here has gone to ruin — Preaches in Methodist church — Visits Emmitsburg — York, St. Patrick's — St. Peter's, Columbia — Lancaster, corner-stone of St. Joseph's, a German church, laid — Returns to the city.; title: Trustees at Holy Trinity.; title: Visitation continued, September 8. St. Bernard's, Easton, Rev. Thomas Reardon in charge here — St. John's, Haycock — Bishop Edward Barron leaves for the South — Lambertville, N. J. — F. X. Gartland consecrated Bishop of Savannah — An agreement between Trustees at Holy Trinity and the Jesuits: the plan fails.; title: 1851; title: Orestes A. Brownson lectures here. Ordinations by Bishop of Toronto in St. John's. Visits Bishop Wm. Walsh of Halifax, Nova Scotia.; title: NINETEENTH VISITATION. 1851; title: August 9 — Lancaster — York — Paradise — McSherrystown — Conewago, Church of the Most Sacred Heart consecrated, Aug. 13, 1851 — Gettysburg — Chambersburg — Carlisle — Harrisburg — Lewistown — Bellefonte — Collumsville — Cascade — Blossburg — Towanda — Dushore — Danville — Pottsville — October 9, 1851, receives Papal Bttlls which raise him to the Metropolitan See of Baltimore — Leaves for Baltimore by stage same evening — November 16 receives pallium at hands of Bishop Timon — Visits Cumberland — Redemptorists here.