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completed reality. A man of scholarly tastes and keen mental powers, Father O'Keefe has the spirit of a missionary, and, for upwards of thirty years, has cared for the distant missions of St. Mary's at Hampden and St. Monica's at Wales.
M ORE recent years have witnessed the coming of the Polish people to Palmer, especially to the farming districts. Out in the open country, at Three Rivers, rises the church steeple of Sts. Peter and Paul, founded by the late Father Lenz in 1903. Father Kielbasinski built the rec- tory and church, while the present pastor opened the school in 1916. Today this school houses over four hundred pupils. On the other side of the church is the roomy rectory. Over this flourishing parish presides Rev. A. S. Krzywda, whose parish brings the church to the people in a wide open country. He is an earnest, intense worker, who has been known to offer his first Mass on Sunday at Three Rivers, and his second at Clinton.
St. Ann's Church, Fairviewe. Rev. Leon T. Ruty, Pastor.
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Reverend Patrick Cuddihy "Missionary of the Berkshires"
where he ministered to twenty-two towns, from West- field to New York state line, and erected churches in many of them; co-worker with Daniel O'Connell for repeal, fearless champion of Catholic truth in Know- nothing days, sixty-two years a priest, forty years pastor of St. Mary's, in Milford, where he died in his ninetieth year, after serving under four popes and four American bishops.
BERKSHIRE County
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VIEW OF MOUNT GREYLOCK, BERKSHIRE COUNTY Located near Greylock Rest, popular vacation and rest resort conducted by the Sisters of Providence, at Adams.
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A VIEW OF THE BERKSHIRE HILLS Showing Stony Ledge, Hopper Trail and Prospect Point.
Chronicle of Pittsfield, North Adams and Berkshire County
ATURALLY, it never occurred to the scattered flocks of the Berk- shires or elsewhere that, in seventy-five or one hundred years, anyone would be interested in their efforts to hand down the faith of their fathers to their children. Consequently it is often difficult to deter- mine when the first Mass was said in what are now thriving parishes. Father Fitton, as early as 1832. records that he had said Mass as far west as Great Barrington. That restless spirit who was Rev. Jeremiah O'Callaghan. of Bennington. Vt .. said Mass in Pittsfield as early as 1835, and in North Adams as early as 1840. It is evident that. as soon as Catholics appeared in any numbers. zealous priests followed them to minister to their spiritual needs.
The early Masses were said in private homes. in public halls, where these were available, and at times in open fields. Oftentimes. when Catholics determined to have a permanent house of wor- ship. they had to disguise their purpose in order not to defeat it. They were not wanted, and were told so in plain words and plainer actions. Yet this proscriptive spirit was not unanimous. The Catho- lics of Berkshire will always hold in grateful re-
membrance the Lanes. the Plunketts, the Sedg- wicks, the Cranes, the Eatons, and others who gave sympathy, land and money to aid the struggling Church. and the tradition has lived in their de- scendants.
The missionary days of Berkshire, which ante- date the first permanent parish by twenty years and more, have left three glorious names which stand out as synonymous with priestly self-sacri- fice : Father John D. Brady, who, from his parish in Cabot- ville (Chicopee ) . penetrated the remotest Berkshires: Father Bernard NEAR THIS SPOT STOOD THE HOUSE O O'Cavanaugh. his THOMAS DALY WHERE. IN 1835 assistant, who FOR THE FIRST TIME IN became the first PITTSFIELD MASS WAS CELEBRATED pastor of St. Joseph's in Pitts- field. in 1849: and Father Patrick Cuddihy.
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THE REV JEREMIAH O'CALLAGHAN
A TRAVELING MISSION FATHER.
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who soon succeeded Father O'Cavanaugh at St. Joseph's. In the days when travel was diffi- cult and mountains trackless, these intrepid artisans of Catholicism were veritable path- finders of Christ, and said a first Mass in the forties and fifties in practically every Berk- shire parish which now has a resident pas- tor. They had so much ground to cover that once a month, or even once in two or three months, was the best they could do for the remoter dis-
tricts, but they did it. With Father Cuddihy be- gan the active building of churches, a movement which has dotted our western county with lovely parish homes of our Eucharistic King, and which gave him the title "Missionary of the Berkshires."
St. Joseph's, Pittsfield, became a parish in 1849. At first, its priests cared for the entire county. In 1863, however, St. Francis', North Adams, was assigned to Father Charles Lynch, who thenceforth looked after northern Berkshire. The rapid growth of the Catholic population is indicated by the multiplication of parishes. Their advance in material prosperity is reflected in the fact that the first church the late Bishop O'Reilly consecrated was St. Francis', North Adams, in 1887, and St. Joseph's, Pittsfield, followed, two years later.
THE Canadian Catholics arrived in large numbers in the sixties, and their spiritual wants were looked after by that great missionary soul, only recently called to his reward-the late Father Charles Crevier. He established Notre Dame Parish, North Adams, in 1871, and from that as a center labored among the scattered Canadians of Adams and Williamstown and the hilly country nearby. Meanwhile, four years ear- lier, Father N. LaMarque had been intrusted with
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the care of the Canadian Catholics of Pittsfield. in a parish whose title was Our Lady of Good Counsel.
D IVISIONS of St. Joseph's followed as soon as priests were available. Father Peter Eagan founded St. Mary's at Lee, in 1856; Father Peter Minietti. St. Peter's at Great Barrington, in 1864 ; Father A. Romano. St. Patrick's at Hinsdale, in 1868; Father John J. O'Laughran, St. Patrick's at West Stockbridge, in 1871. More recent years have witnessed the missions of these parishes becoming independent parishes: in 1891, St. Ann's of Lenox was severed from the mother parish at Lee and Father William Dower became the first pastor. In 1897, the late Rev. Charles Boylan became first pastor of St. Charles' Church. Pittsfield. In 1899, the present Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F. Fagan received St. Bridget's of Housa- tonic, as his first pastorate.
Meantime, divisions and new parishes were following each other rapidly in northern Berk- shire. In 1875, Father E. P. McCort became the first resident pastor of St. Thomas', Adams. In 1887, Rev. Edmund Casey, who has celebrated his golden jubilee in the priesthood, was assigned to found St. Patrick's Parish in Williamstown. 1882 saw Father J. B. Charbonneau establishing an
independent Canadian congregation at Adams, and 1891 witnessed the birth of St. Raphael's, in Williamstown, with Father A. E. Langevin in charge.
TT WOULD be an interesting task, were it not so forbidding an undertaking, to compute how. many hundred per cent the Catholics of Berk- shire have increased since those early Masses in private homes. It is more gratifying to compute the wonderful strides they have made, in the respect and admiration and affection of their non- Catholic neighbors, who at first looked askance at their every sign of growth in numbers or influ- ence.
The humble houses of worship erected by the struggling pioneers served their purpose and went the way of all things human. Nobler homes for divine worship have replaced them, but it is no reflection on the fervor of present day Catho- lics to say that they owe an undying debt of grati- tude to those who traveled from Williamstown to Albany, to receive the Sacraments, and con- sidered a twenty-five or even a fifty mile walk well recompensed by the privilege of assisting at Holy Mass. They believed that "the Mass is what counts," and trudged endless miles of rugged mountain roads to prove their belief sincere.
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ST. CHARLES' RECTORY AND CHURCH, PITTSFIELD Rev. James P. Moore, Pastor.
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OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CHURCH, PITTSFIELD Rev. Charles Zanotti, C.S.F., Pastor.
Down to our own day, new parishes have sprung up in the Berkshires, especially in Pitts- field, where St. Joseph's, in an effort to bring the Church to the people, has given her maternal blessing to St. Mark's, St. Mary the Morning Star, Sacred Heart, and St. Teresa's, as well as Mount Carmel, for the Italians, and Holy Family. for the Polish people, as they began independent parochial life. The old mother parish seems to suffer no diminution, as she thus adds to her daughter parishes. St. Agnes, of Dalton, flourish- ing mission of St. Patrick's, Hinsdale, began parish existence early in our century, in 1907. The foundation of a new parish at Lenoxdale, with South Lee for a mission, furthered the cause of souls in southern Berkshire, as did also the new parish of St. Joseph in Stockbridge.
In our day, northern Berkshire has added one English speaking and one French speaking con- gregation to our growing family of parishes in the setting off of St. Mary's, of Cheshire, from St. Thomas', of Adams, and Holy Family, of Greylock, from St. Raphael's, of Williamstown.
Earlier, St. Peter's, of Great Barrington, too, lost its mission when Our Lady of the Valley, in Shef- field, became an independent parish in 1901.
D ID space permit. we would gladly pay merited tribute to the Purcells, the Smiths, the Lynchs. the Cronins, the Morans, the Crevi-
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Pittsfield. Rev. Charles Zanotti, C.S.F., Pastor.
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ers, the Lamarques, the Charbonneaus and others, all good priests and true, who were the spiritual hewers of wood and drawers of water in the try- ing days when Catholicism in Berkshire was struggling for its present place in the sun. These pioneer priests builded, perhaps, better than they knew, but not better than we know. They feared God alone, were men of vision and dared to follow it, covered the Berkshires with church and school as monuments more durable than brass, and laid broad and deep the foundations of a Faith that
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conquers the modern, as it conquered the ancient world.
Berkshire might justify the title of the county of long pastorates. The kindly Rev. Edward Purcell presided over St. Joseph's at Pittsfield for nearly thirty-five years. The two pastorates of Fathers Charles Lynch and Charles Burke at St. Francis, North Adams, covered a span of nearly half a century. The sturdy, rugged Rev. Denis Moran, builder of St. Thomas' Church at Adams, approached a quarter of a century in that parochial charge. That quiet, scholarly soul, Rev. Daniel Cronin, passed nearly forty years in Hinsdale and Dalton, while Rev. James Maher had passed a score of years in the Stockbridges when the last call ended his loving service to a grateful people.
Their present successors are building on their foundations. and are proving themselves worthy of a noble heritage. The dean of the Berkshire clergy is the venerable, saintly and beloved vicar general of our diocese, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Bernard S. Conaty, pastor of St. Joseph's, Pittsfield. Un- der his inspiring leadership St. Joseph's has flour- ished in spite of founding numerous new
Proposed new St. Mark's Church, Pittsfield. Rev. M. J. Leonard, Pastor.
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ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, NORTH ADAMS Rev. E. P. Dunphy, D.D., P.R., Pastor.
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NOTRE DAME CHURCH, NORTH ADAMS Rev. C. H. Jeannotte. Pastor.
parishes. Her schools have become a synonym for excellence and success, and are demanding far more spacious quarters. Plans for a large central high school are well under way. Her sodalities, her societies, her annual communions, mounting be- yond the hundred and twenty-five thousand mark, all show that the pioneers of other days are living again in their illustrious successors.
ST. FRANCIS, of North Adams, mother of churches in northern Berkshire, is now in charge of Rev. Edward L. Dunphy, D.D., her
third pastor in an existence of over sixty years. He is a quiet, energetic, able and far-sighted shep- herd, who, after years of careful planning. has just dedicated a magnificent new parish school building to replace the veteran edifice opened by Rev. Charles Burke, a structure that had served Catholic education since 1886. Dr. Dunphy was a pioneer in the establishment of boys' camps. His camp at Hawley is the mecca of North Adams boys and girls each vacation, while he has reno- vated and beautified St. Francis itself into a prac- tically new church property.
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ST. PETER'S CHURCH, GREAT BARRINGTON Rev. Martin Murphy, Pastor.
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CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, HOUSATONIC Rev. Joseph T. Mckeon, Pastor.
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ST. ANN'S CHURCH, LENOX Rev. F. J. Carroll, Administrator.
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R EV. LEVI ACHIM, the present pastor of beautiful Notre Dame, in Pittsfield, has proven himself an able guide and a kindly leader of his people. Under him, they have won a posi- tion of prominence in the community, and are highly respected by all classes of Pittsfield citi- zens. This veteran French-speaking congregation has known the zealous service of a long line of pastors, but it was especially due to the efforts of our Monsignor Triganne that money was raised for the new church which Father A. L'Heureux built. Father Achim added a beautiful rectory, in harmony with the architecture of his church.
N TOTRE DAME, North Adams, founded by Rev. Charles Crevier in 1871, has enjoyed, for nigh forty years, the able and scholarly direction of Rev. C. H. Jeannotte. He began his schools in the basement of his church in 1890 and opened the present imposing brick building in 1896. A teacher of experience himself, he has
shown special interest in his parish schools, which have flourished during his regime. Every branch of parish work has profited by the guidance of a pious heart and a keen, alert mind.
ST. PETER'S, Great Barrington, is in charge of one of our veterans, thanks to whose finan- cial ability and self-sacrificing labors she pos- sesses a beautiful marble church, which easily ranks among the most sightly in our diocese. A hard, conscientious worker, blessed with length of years to see the fruits of his labors, Father Martin Murphy commands the respect of Catho- lic and non-Catholic alike, as a result of thirty- five years of unremitting labor for the souls of one parish. Today, he cares for only one parish, but in his earlier years he knew the long missionary drives to Sheffield and Housatonic.
TN 1899, Housatonic, which had been a mission of Great Barrington, began its existence as a parish, under Rev. John F. Fagan, now Mon- signor Fagan, of Holyoke. He pays unstinted tribute to the zeal of Fathers John and Martin Murphy, brothers, and successive pastors of Great Barrington, who had already established Sunday Mass, Vespers and Sunday School in their mission church. Father Fagan organized flourishing societies, did much to promote the
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spread of Catholic literature, and made St. Brid- get's a splendid rural parish. He erected a beauti- ful brick church to replace the pretty mission chapel built by Rev. John Murphy. The original church was purchased by the Polish congregation. The present pastor is Rev. Joseph T. Mckeon. under whom the material and spiritual interests of the people are scrupulously safeguarded.
D URING Father Fagan's pastorate. the Polish speaking people multiplied so rapidly that permission was given in 1913 to form an inde- pendent parish of All Saints. Housatonic.
Father Theodore Suk was fortunate in obtain- ing the original church of the mother parish. which he enlarged and renovated to meet the needs of his people. and it still remains the parish church. under the new title, All Saints. A suitable rectory was purchased and Father Kempinski, by extensive repairs. which included a stucco finish. trans- formed it into an attractive home for the parish clergy. During his stay of five years. Father Kempinski. now of Adams. did excellent work
Interior View, Holy Family Church, Pittsfield. Rev. Valen- tine Teclaw, Pastor.
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for the material and spiritual upbuilding of his parish. The present pastor, Rev. Joseph Lekston, has already beautified the interior of the church as an auspicious opening of his pastorate.
ST. MARY'S, of Lee, is not merely one of the first parishes founded in Berkshire, as it dates its origin back to 1856, but also the first in southern Berkshire to establish parish schools, which it did during the pastorate of Rev. Terence Smith. It is at present in charge of Rev. James P. Kirby, a graduate of St. Sulpice, in Paris, and a fluent French speaker. He succeeded good Father Edward Murphy, who finished his earthly labors last year. Father Kirby's splendid ability and kindly nature, which have hitherto mani- fested themselves in promoting harmony in parishes of many racial groups, will find a more congenial field of labor in his new pastorate, which has a Catholic tradition nigh unto three quarters of a century old. The present Lee church was built in 1856, by Rev. Father Cuddihy, and a long line of zealous pastors, including Fathers John Murphy, J. M. Prendergast, William B. Fallon, P. J. Griffin and Edmund Murphy, have made this a center of Catholic faith and education in southern Berkshires.
S IT. PATRICK'S, of Hinsdale, was erected in 1852 by the industrious Father Cuddihy, of Pittsfield, and began parochial life in 1868. Rev.
MURAL DECORATION BY TACK Sanctuary, St. Agnes' Church, Dalton, Rev. P. H. Gallen, LL.D., Pastor.
Daniel F. Cronin spent upwards of a quarter of a century in Hinsdale, and was a power in both religious and civil circles. Though business condi- tions have been far from promising, Fathers James O'Malley, Stephen Hallissey, William Nugent, and Francis Swift all kept the parish property in good repair, and parish devotions flourishing. It is at present in charge of Rev. Patrick Dowd, D.D., and, though industrial conditions are still far from flourishing, spiritual conditions and the work of saving souls are certain to thrive under a pastor at once scholarly, eloquent and zealous. He also has charge of the pretty mission church of St. Matthew's, at Becket, built during the pastorate of Rev. James O'Malley.
S ST. PATRICK'S, West Stockbridge, formerly a mission of Lee, first saw the light of day as a parish way back in 1871, under Rev. John J. O'Laughran, and has always been characterized by fervent faith. Its subsequent development was under the able leadership of Monsignor Madden, our late Vicar General, Father James Maher and Father James Hanrahan. Its children are now scat- tered far and wide, but the parish and the neat parish property are being kept in good material condition while the care of souls is thriving under Rev. Jeremiah Sullivan. Father Sullivan has com-
St. Thomas' Church, Adams. Rev. John J. Brodrick, Pastor.
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pleted a quarter of a century of fruitful work in the priesthood.
ST. JOSEPH'S, of Stockbridge, formerly a mission of St. Patrick's, was made an inde- pendent parish in 1922 by Bishop O'Leary, who appointed Rev. Patrick T. O'Connor as its first pastor. Its lovely stone church was constructed largely through the aid of the noted convert, Jane Sedgwick. Father O'Connor has developed a splen- did parish spirit, which responds generously to every appeal, be it material or spiritual. A man who combines eloquence and zeal, he has molded his people into an enthusiastic parish group. The last pastor of both the Stockbridges was Rev. James Hanrahan, who cleared them of debt before his promotion to Worcester.
N OTRE DAME Parish, of Adams, severed its relations with the mother parish of North Adams, in 1882, and Rev. John B. Charbonneau became its first resident pastor. He obtained the beautiful site of the present parish plant, perhaps the most striking location in Adams, erected the present lovely Romanesque church, and added a well-appointed rectory. His successor, Father Triganne, made a remarkable record in liquidat- ing the debt, and, in 1899, remodelled Father Crevier's mission chapel into a school. When Father H. Hamelin retired, the present pastor, Rev. Joseph T. Smith, became head of Notre Dame's flock, and has just completed a new addi- tion to the parish school building. which has been used for educational purposes since 1899. The addition includes a large auditorium, as well as additional class rooms.
S T. THOMAS', of Adams, which boasts over half a century of unbroken parish life, is at present in charge of Rev. John J. Brodrick, a silver jubilarian in the priesthood. He falls heir to a parish which knew the skilled financial guidance, experi- ence and spiritual direction of Fathers McCort. Moran, McLaughlin and O'Connor. The striking Gothic church was the crowning labor of Father Denis Moran's long pastorate. In his first incum- bency, Father Brodrick has handled a difficult financial problem masterfully, has beautified the parish property, especially the rectory, and has, by his eloquence and zeal, won anew the hearts of the people, whom he previously served as assistant to the late Father Thomas O'Connor.
BISHOP O'LEARY established a new parish in 1926, that of St. Mary's, at Cheshire, for- merly a mission of Adams. The church at Cheshire was dedicated as far back as 1879, but only recently did the increase in Catholic population justify the establishment of a new parochial unit. The first pastor is Rev. Patrick J. Madden, who has already purchased and furnished a parish rectory, reno- vated the church and established flourishing devo- tions. Father Madden has completed a quarter of a century in the priesthood. A tireless worker and a forceful orator, he cares for a mission at Berk- shire in addition to his home parish.
"THE youngest parish in Adams is St. Stanis- laus, founded in 1902. It boasts a spacious and sightly church edifice, and a school which accom- modates upwards of seven hundred children. Father Edmund Kempinski, its present pastor, is a pious, indefatigable worker, who teaches alike by word and example. He inherits a thriv- ing parish from the late Father Kolodziej, head of this energetic parish for nearly two decades. Suc- ceeding the founder of the parish, Rev. M. Kopytkiewicz. the late Father Kolodziej built a combination school and convent, and added a new rectory to the St. Stanislaus buildings.
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S PATRICK'S, of Williamstown, with its mission at Blackinton, has en- joyed over forty years of parish life in Berkshire's college town since its creation as a parish, in 1887. Its present fine church was built by the late Rev. John Fallon, while the admirable condition of this parish. materially and spiritually, is the fruit of excellent results achieved by Father J. C. Ivers, Msgr. W. E Foley. and Fr. Teahan.
Rev. J. F. X. Teahan, its late pastor, was at the helm for two decades. Clear and con- vincing as an instructor, Father Teahan had an established reputation for zeal and per- sonal piety, which he had a special faculty of imparting to his people. Death claimed him in November, 1930, and St. Patrick's is now administered by Father John F. Scanlon.
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