St. Mary's Church.
Sept. 4, 1870, the church was dedicated by Bishop Mac- Farland ; the Rev. Mr. McCallion, the pastor, the Rev. Charles J. Rogers, then a deacon, and ten other clergymen taking part in the services. In his address to the congregation* at that time, the bishop made use of these words : " I congratulate you, my dear children, on the accomplishment of the, for you, great work which we now see before us — the improvement of your church. At first I thought that your good pastor and yourselves had made a mistake in building your church too large ; but I doubt not, after all, that it will be here as in the other missions of the diocese, ere long too small to accommodate yourselves and the influx of Catholics. The growth of our church has been exceedingly great, particularly in this diocese. Fifty years since. Catholicity was almost un-
known in Rhode Island and Connecticut, the present diocese.
The Bristol church remained an out-mission of Warren until 1874. In that year it became an independent parish, of
which the Rev. Charles J. Rogers was appointed resident pastor on the sixth day of March. That same year a resi-
dence for the priest was built on the lot next south of the church. The present value of church property is about
130,000. St. Mary's Total Abstinence Society, founded in 1873, has attained great strength and been productive of
much good in the parish.
The Rev. Father Rogers was born in Philadelphia in 1842, and is a nephew of Father McCallion. He was educated at Holy Cross College, Worcester, and at St. John's College, Fordham, graduating from the latter institution in 1867. He studied theology at St. Joseph's Theological Seminary, Troy ; was ordained sub-deacon by Cardinal McCloskey, deacon by Bishop Williams, of Portland, and priest by Bishop Conroy, of Albany. Dec. 17, 1870, he became his uncle's assistant in the parish of Warren and Bristol, serving as such until his appointment to the pastorship of St. Mary's Church, Bristol.
Sept. 4, 1870, the church was dedicated by Bishop Mac- Farland ; the Rev. Mr. McCallion, the pastor, the Rev. Charles J. Rogers, then a deacon, and ten other clergymen taking part in the services. In his address to the congregation* at that time, the bishop made use of these words : " I congratulate you, my dear children, on the accomplishment of the, for you, great work which we now see before us — the improvement of your church. At first I thought that your good pastor and yourselves had made a mistake in building your church too large ; but I doubt not, after all, that it will be here as in the other missions of the diocese, ere long too small to accommodate yourselves and the influx of Catholics. The growth of our church has been exceedingly great, particularly in this diocese. Fifty years since. Catholicity was almost un-
known in Rhode Island and Connecticut, the present diocese.
The Bristol church remained an out-mission of Warren until 1874. In that year it became an independent parish, of
which the Rev. Charles J. Rogers was appointed resident pastor on the sixth day of March. That same year a resi-
dence for the priest was built on the lot next south of the church. The present value of church property is about
130,000. St. Mary's Total Abstinence Society, founded in 1873, has attained great strength and been productive of
much good in the parish.
The Rev. Father Rogers was born in Philadelphia in 1842, and is a nephew of Father McCallion. He was educated at Holy Cross College, Worcester, and at St. John's College, Fordham, graduating from the latter institution in 1867. He studied theology at St. Joseph's Theological Seminary, Troy ; was ordained sub-deacon by Cardinal McCloskey, deacon by Bishop Williams, of Portland, and priest by Bishop Conroy, of Albany. Dec. 17, 1870, he became his uncle's assistant in the parish of Warren and Bristol, serving as such until his appointment to the pastorship of St. Mary's Church, Bristol.
St. Mary's Church.
Sept. 4, 1870, the church was dedicated by Bishop Mac- Farland ; the Rev. Mr. McCallion, the pastor, the Rev. Charles J. Rogers, then a deacon, and ten other clergymen taking part in the services. In his address to the congregation* at that time, the bishop made use of these words : " I congratulate you, my dear children, on the accomplishment of the, for you, great work which we now see before us — the improvement of your church. At first I thought that your good pastor and yourselves had made a mistake in building your church too large ; but I doubt not, after all, that it will be here as in the other missions of the diocese, ere long too small to accommodate yourselves and the influx of Catholics. The growth of our church has been exceedingly great, particularly in this diocese. Fifty years since. Catholicity was almost un-
known in Rhode Island and Connecticut, the present diocese.
The Bristol church remained an out-mission of Warren until 1874. In that year it became an independent parish, of
which the Rev. Charles J. Rogers was appointed resident pastor on the sixth day of March. That same year a resi-
dence for the priest was built on the lot next south of the church. The present value of church property is about
130,000. St. Mary's Total Abstinence Society, founded in 1873, has attained great strength and been productive of
much good in the parish.
The Rev. Father Rogers was born in Philadelphia in 1842, and is a nephew of Father McCallion. He was educated at Holy Cross College, Worcester, and at St. John's College, Fordham, graduating from the latter institution in 1867. He studied theology at St. Joseph's Theological Seminary, Troy ; was ordained sub-deacon by Cardinal McCloskey, deacon by Bishop Williams, of Portland, and priest by Bishop Conroy, of Albany. Dec. 17, 1870, he became his uncle's assistant in the parish of Warren and Bristol, serving as such until his appointment to the pastorship of St. Mary's Church, Bristol.
Sept. 4, 1870, the church was dedicated by Bishop Mac- Farland ; the Rev. Mr. McCallion, the pastor, the Rev. Charles J. Rogers, then a deacon, and ten other clergymen taking part in the services. In his address to the congregation* at that time, the bishop made use of these words : " I congratulate you, my dear children, on the accomplishment of the, for you, great work which we now see before us — the improvement of your church. At first I thought that your good pastor and yourselves had made a mistake in building your church too large ; but I doubt not, after all, that it will be here as in the other missions of the diocese, ere long too small to accommodate yourselves and the influx of Catholics. The growth of our church has been exceedingly great, particularly in this diocese. Fifty years since. Catholicity was almost un-
known in Rhode Island and Connecticut, the present diocese.
The Bristol church remained an out-mission of Warren until 1874. In that year it became an independent parish, of
which the Rev. Charles J. Rogers was appointed resident pastor on the sixth day of March. That same year a resi-
dence for the priest was built on the lot next south of the church. The present value of church property is about
130,000. St. Mary's Total Abstinence Society, founded in 1873, has attained great strength and been productive of
much good in the parish.
The Rev. Father Rogers was born in Philadelphia in 1842, and is a nephew of Father McCallion. He was educated at Holy Cross College, Worcester, and at St. John's College, Fordham, graduating from the latter institution in 1867. He studied theology at St. Joseph's Theological Seminary, Troy ; was ordained sub-deacon by Cardinal McCloskey, deacon by Bishop Williams, of Portland, and priest by Bishop Conroy, of Albany. Dec. 17, 1870, he became his uncle's assistant in the parish of Warren and Bristol, serving as such until his appointment to the pastorship of St. Mary's Church, Bristol.
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