A History of the Catholic Church Within the Limits of the United States: From the First Attempted Colonization to the Present Time

A History Of The Catholic Church Within The Limits Of The United States From The First Attempted Colonization To The Present Time, Volume 1 1886 CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. v BOOK I. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE ENGLISH COLONIES. CHAPTER I. EARLY PROJECTS OF SETTLEMENT. Position of Catholics in England — Sir George Peckham and Sir Thomas Gerard plan a Catholic Settlement in Norumbega under Sir Humphrey Gilbert — Queen Elizabeth sanctions it — Winslade's Project — Lord Arundell of Wardour — Opposed by Father Persons — Sir George Calvert proposes a Settlement in Newfoundland — Visits Virginia — Repulsed — Obtains a Charter for Maryland 17 CHAPTER II. CATHOLICITY PLANTED IN MARYLAND, 1684-1646. The Ark and Dove — The Society of Jesus undertakes the Mission — Fathers Andrew White and Altham — First Mass on St. Clement's Isle — City of St. Mary's founded — A Chapel — Indian Missions begun — Lands taken up by Father Copley — Catholic Preponderance — Questions raised by Missionaries — Conversion of Indian Chief Chilomacon — Labors of Missionaries — Death of Father Brock — Lord Baltimore solicits Secular Priests from Rome — Is reconciled to the Jesuits — Puritans take possession — Missionaries arrested and sent to England — Father Andrew White — Fathers Rigbie and Cooper die in Virginia 37 CHAPTER III. THE MARYLAND MISSION RESTORED, 1648-1668. The Act of Toleration — The Puritans overthrow the Government — Missionaries escape to Virginia — Lord Baltimore's Authority restored — Father Fitzherbert's Case — Bretton's Chapel 68 CHAPTER IV. THE JESUITS AND FRANCISCANS IN MARYLAND, 1669-1690. Mgr. Agretti's Report to the Propaganda — A Franciscan Mission — Father Massieus Massey — Catholic Classical School — First Protestant Ministers — Sir Edmund Plowden and New Albion — Catholics in New Jersey — Dongan, Catholic Governor of New York — Jesuit Mission and School — Catholics in other Colonies — The Vicars-Apostolic in England — Fall of James II. — State of Catholicity in 1690 79 BOOK II. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE SPANISH COLONIES. CHAPTER I. THE CHURCH IN FLORIDA, 1618-1561. Ponce de Leon discovers Florida — Attempted Settlement in 1621 with Priests and Religious — Ayllon's discovery — Settlement at San Miguel de Guandape on James River, Virginia — The Dominican Father Anthony de Montesinos at San Miguel — Death of Ayllon — Expedition of Narvaez — The Franciscan Father John Xuarez and other Priests — Soto's Expedition accompanied by secular and regular Priests — The Franciscan Father Mark of Nice penetrates to New Mexico — Coronado's Expedition — In the Valley of the Mississippi — Death of the Franciscan Father Padilla — Heroic attempt of the Dominican Father Cancer — Tristan de Luna attempts a Settlement — Dominicans with him — Peter Menendez undertakes to settle Florida — St. Augustine founded — Place of the first Mass — The Parish founded — Jesuit Missions — Father Segura and his Companions put to Death in Virginia — Franciscan Missions — Indian Revolt — Fathers put to Death — Books in the Timuquan Language — Florida visited by Bishop Cabezas — Religious condition — Bishop Calderon — Synod held by Bishop Palacios — Extent of Missions — First attack from Carolina 100 CHAPTER II. THE CHURCH IN NEW MEXICO, 1580-1880. Brother Augustine Rodriguez — Mission at Puaray — Missionaries put to Death — Espejo's Expedition — Onate conquers New Mexico — Missions established — Their success — V. Mother Mary de Agreda — Father Benavides — Indian Revolt — Missionaries put to Death — Spaniards expelled 188 BOOK III. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN FRENCH TERRITORY. CHAPTER I. FIRST WORK OF THE CHURCH IN MAINE, MICHIGAN, AND NEW YORK, 1611-1652. First Church on De Monts or Neutral Island, Maine — Jesuit Mission at Mount Desert — Its destruction by the Virginians — Canada founded — Father Jogues plants the Cross at Sault St Marie — Taken Prisoner by the Mohawks — His escape — Father Bressani a Captive — Father Jogues undertakes a Mohawk Mission — His Death — His Canonization solicited — French Capuchins in Maine — The Jesuit Father Druillettes founds an Abnaki Mission on the Kennebec — Visits New England — Father Poncets captivity 216 CHAPTER II. THE ARCHBISHOPS OF ROUEN — ONONDAGA MISSION FOUNDED. Our Lady of Ganentaa — Its close — Mgr. Francis de Laval, Bishop of Petrsea and Vicar- Apostolic of New PVance — Father Mard founds a Mission on Lake Superior — His Death 246 CHAPTER III. THE OTTAWA MISSION, 1662-1675. Father Claude Allouez — Bishop Laval makes him Vicar-General — Pastoral against attending Idolatrous Rites — Sault St Marie — Green Bay 267 CHAPTER IV. THE CHURCH AMONG THE IROQUOIS, 1660-1680. Garaconthie effects Peace — Missions restored — Father Fremin on the Mohawk — Bruyas at Oneida — Carheil at Cayuga — Lamberville at Onondaga — The Great Mohawk and other Converts — Catharine Tekouita — Veneration for her — The Mission Village at La Prairie — Sault St. Louis 280 CHAPTER V. THE CHURCH FROM THE PENOBSCOT TO THE MISSISSIPPI, 1680-1690. Chapel at Pentagoet — Sulpitian Mission to the West — Father Marquette with Joliet descends the Mississippi — Mission at Sault St. Marie destroyed — Illinois Mission — Death of Marquette — La Salle establishes house at Niagara — Recollect Chapel — Chapel on the St. Joseph's — On the Illinois — Father Hennepin on the Upper Mississippi — Recollect Missions in the West cease — Death of Father de la Ribourde — Milet at Niagara — Father Lamberville at Onondaga — Father Milet a Prisoner at Oneida — Priests with La Salle in Texas — Resignation of Bishop Laval 610 BOOK IV. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE ENGLISH COLONIES. CHAPTER I. CATHOLICITY IN MARYLAND, 1690-1708. Calumnies against Catholics — A Royal Governor of Maryland — Catholics excluded from the Assembly — Anglican Church established by Law — Tax for Ministers — Catholics disfranchised — Zeal of Catholic Priests — Fathers Hunter and Brooke arraigned — Governor Seymour's outrageous conduct — Chapel at St. Mary's taken from Catholics — Penal Laws in New York and Massachusetts — In Maryland — Queen Anne saves the Catholics — Mass permitted in private Houses — How Religion was maintained 344 CHAPTER II. CATHOLICITY IN PENNSYLVANIA AND MARYLAND, 1706-1741. Catholicity in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania — Converts — Jesuits at Bohemia Manor, Md. — Apostasy of Lord Baltimore — Additional Penal Laws — Catholics appeal to the King of England — Chapel near Nicetown, Pa. — Sir John James — First Pennsylvania Priest — St. Joseph's, Philadelphia — Fathers Wapeler and Schneider — Mission Work in New Jersey — A Protestant Clergyman in New York hanged on suspicion of being a Priest — Public Service of Father Molyneux 365 CHAPTER III. THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES, 1745-1755. Rev. Hugh Jones' Protest against Popery — Gov. Bladen's Proclamation — Gov. Gooch's Proclamation — Virginia Penal Laws — Attempts in Maryland to pass still more cruel Laws — St. Joseph's Chapel, Deer Creek — Petition of Roman Catholics to the King — Fathers Greaton and Harding in Philadelphia 408 CHAPTER IV. THE ACADIAN CATHOLICS IN THE COLONIES, 1755-1768. The Acadian Catholics — Deprived of Priest and Sacrament — Seven thousand seized as Popish Recusants — A pretended Law — Treatment in Massachusetts — In New York — In Pennsylvania — In Maryland — First Chapel in Baltimore — In South Carolina and Georgia — Many reach Louisiana — A few in Madawaska, Maine 421 CHAPTER V. CATHOLICITY IN THE BRITISH COLONIES, 1755-1768. Constant attempts in Maryland against Catholics — Arrest of Father Beadnail — Of another Jesuit — The Missions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey 440 BOOK V. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE SPANISH COLONIES. CHAPTER I. THE CHURCH IN FLORIDA, 1690-1768. St. Augustine — The learned Florida Jesuit Father Florencia — Pensacola and Father Siguenza — New Missions under Father Lopez — Missions as portrayed by Dickenson — Catholic Missions ravaged from Carolina — St. Augustine burnt by Gov. Moore — Ayubale destroyed and Missionaries slain by Gov. Moore — Bishop Compostela — Auxiliary Bishops for Florida — Bishop Rezind — Shrine of Nuestra l fiora de la Leche profaned — St. Mark — Pensacola taken, retaken, and destroyed — Church on Santa Rosa Island — Bishop Tejada — His labors in Florida — Missions in Southern Florida — Siege of St. Augustine — Bishop Morell de Santa Cruz sent to Florida by the English 464 CHAPTER II. THE CHURCH IN TEXAS, 1690-1768. Missions founded by Father Damian Mazanet — Missions near the Rio Grande — The Ven. Father Anthony Margil and his Missions — Friar Joseph Pita killed — City of San Fernando (San Antonio) founded — Holidays of Obligation — Fathers Ganzabal and Terreros and others killed — Visitation by Bishop Tejada — Apache Missions — Father Garcia and his work 479 CHAPTER III. THE CHURCH IN NEW MEXICO, 1692-1768. Catholicity restored — Revolt at Santa Fe — Remains of Father John of Jesus — Vargas doubts the Indian plot — Missionaries massacred — Zuni — Albuquerque — Bishops Crespo and Eliza-coches. 610 CHAPTER IV. THE CHURCH IN ARIZONA, 1690-1768. Missions founded by Father John — San Xavier del Bac — Missions revived by Bishop Crespo — Fathers Keler and Sedelmayr — Jesuits carried off by order of the King of Spain 526 BOOK VI. THE CHURCH IN FRENCH TERRITORY. CHAPTER I. THE CHURCH IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, 1690-1768. Bishop St. Vailier — Synods — Founds Mission of the Seminary of Quebec in the Mississippi Valley — Jesuits at the Mouth of the River — Questions raised — Rev. M. Foucault killed — Mobile, a Parish — Rev. H. Roulleauz de la Vente — The Register — Rev. Mr. Gervaise's Project — Indian Missions — Death of Rev. Mr. de Saint Cosme — The Seminary Priests at Tamarois — Apalachee — Very Rev. Dominic M. Varlet, V.G. — Father Charlevoix's visit — Fort Chartres — Bishop St. Vallier's Pastoral — The Company of the West — The Capuchins in Louisiana — New Orleans founded — A Carmelite — The Jesuits — The Ursulines

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