Identifier: catholicencyclop02herbuoft (find matches)
Title: The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Herbermann, Charles George, 1840-1916
Subjects: Catholic Church Theology Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York, The Encyclopedia Press
Contributing Library: Mississauga - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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selected. .A.t a meeting held 31 March. 1799, he anJohn Magner, Patrick Campbell, Michael Burn:Owen Callahan, John Duggan, and Edmund Conncwere named the committee to take charge of the ncproject. From the congregation they collecteS16.000. Members of the leading Protestant familicheaded by President John Adams added SI 1,000 tthis, and from Catholics in other places and othcsources .?5,500 more was received. The famovarchitect Charles Bulfinch. also a Protestant, whdesigned the capitol at Washington and the StatHouse in Boston, supplied the plans without charsfor a brick building 80 feet long and 60 wide of lonistyle, severely simple but impressive. Ground w£broken for it on St. Patricks Day ISOO and it \vsready for dedication 29 September, 1803, havincost S20,000. Prominent among this first congrcgation, besides those already mentioned, were Jam(Kavanagh, John Ward. David Fitzgerald, StepheRoberts, John DriscoU, William Daly, Daniel EnglislThomas Miu-phy, Jolm Hanly, Abraham Fittoi
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BOSTON 705 BOSTON Mary Lob, and representatives of the Duport, Dus-seaucoir, Dumesnil, Lepouse, and Julien families.Bisliop Carroll went on from Baltimore to performthe ceremony of dedication. This visit of the bishopoccasioned the greatest local satisfaction, and thetwo priests continued their zealous ministrationswnth such success that in 1805 their flock had increasedto about 500. Soon Bishop Carroll saw the necessityof having a bishop in Boston and desired to nominateFather Matignon for the see, but the latter refusedto allow his name to be considered. The goodaccomplished here, he \\Tote, is almost exclusivelythe work of Mr. Cheverus; he it is who fills the pulpit,who is most frequent in the confessional. BishopCarroll therefore sent the name of the Rev. JolinLouis Cheverus to Rome declaring him to be inthe prime of life, with health to undergo any necessarj^exertion, uni\ersally esteemed for his miwearied zealand his remarkable facility and eloquence in an-nouncing the word of G

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