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With an eloquent address, citizens presented to Father Malone a flag to replace it. This one, often afterwards, from the spire of Sts. Peter and Paul's, signaled victory to the people-never more welcomely than on the 1st day of Jan- uary, A. D. 1863. All the previous night had been passed in anxious waiting for news of the result of the three days' fight- ing at Murfreesboro. It came at last through the dark and stormy morning of that day, and the flag went up to its place with fervent gratitude to God, in symbol that the nation had won, what Father Malone believes the philosopher in history will find to have been, the most radically decisive battle of the war. It was in symbol also that African slavery in the United States went to its death on that day, and that four millions of freemen had been raised ont of that death.
At the close of the war, Father Malone, being in need of re- spite from his arduous duties, made a journey through the South with his friend, Rev. Thomas Farrell, of St. Joseph's Church, New York, since deceased. He fully studied the condition of affairs there, and expressed his views on it in able letters, then published. After his return from the South. he resumed his active work in the care of his parish, and continued it with all his old-time vigor and ability until, in 1881, he was compelled to take entire rest, and seek change of scene and climate. The necessity for his doing so had long been manifest-he was overworn-but he yieldled to it reluctantly, and only under the imperative orders of his physician. In taking leave of his people, in bis farewell ad- dress before quote ], he stated some of the results of his labors in his thirty-seven years' pastorate. Ten thousand discourses
(he might have added hundreds of addresses on civic orca- sions) ; eighteen thousand baptisms; three thousand five hun- dred marriages: half a million penitents prepared for com- munion; five thousand applicants prepared for confirmation and first communion; one thousand converts; all debt ou the church and parochial school paid, and the debt on the paro- chial house and St. Joseph's Academy reduced to a small sum,
Referring to Catholic growth and expansion in the interim, particularly alluding to four churches that had been built, lie continued:
" And twelve churches besides, where the English tongue is spoken by Priests and people. All these find good support on territory where I stood alone, the representative of Catho- lic interests in the early years of my ministry. Within the same area there has sprung up seven other churches, in which the language spoken by a thrifty and hard-working race is that of Fatherland."
Ile paid high tribute in his eloquent address to bis non- Catholic fellow citizens, and to his adopted country; tenderly advised his deeply-moved congregations, and concluded in these words:
" And finally, may you live in charity with all your fellow citizens; though you have necessarily to differ with many in religious belief, and may or may not agree in your judg. ments of men, and in those questions that are constantly (N . curring in civil life. There is one thing which will ever dis- tinguish you-charity-loving God above all things, and loving your neighbor for Christ's sake."
Ile had come to them thirty-seven years before in the sign of charity, and in that sign he departed. A few days later he sailed. His tour was an extended one, embracing Eng- land, Ireland, Scotland, Continental Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land. Letters from his Bishop, Cardinal McCloskey, the United States Secretary, and other leading men, brought him into intimate association with our ministers, diplomats, and the leading men abroad, and his reception was as cor- dial and enjoyable as it was deserving, in all his journey- ings.
Probably no incident or experience of, or in them all, so much affected him, or will be so enduring to his memory, as will be that of the celebration by him of mass on Mount Cal- vary. He returned to his people early in September, 142. and again took up his work. His welcome home by the whole community was earnest and grateful. His first ad- dress indicated that he had looked on in Europe and else- where with intelligent appreciation of men and events, ller it may be remarked, that he made voluminous notes of ob- servation and comment on both, and that he may hereafter arrange them for use and reference. They may well be es- teemed, by those who know him, as valuable.
This address was in part a criticism on the separation abroad of priests and people. He deplored it, and argued for a mon close identification of the clergy with the every-day life of the people everywhere.
The address provoked some adverse criticism, and gav him an opportunity to restate his position with greater em- phasis.
Sincerely believing in the people, he argues that their ad vancement will lift the clergy to a higher place. Banquet were tendered to him. The leading newspapers contamci warm expressions of affectionate regard. Extracts from one of these will suffice to express the tone of all:
"Upon all occasions in the pulpit he has enforced strongly the brotherhood of man as man, and the sacred duty of ole dience to law and public-spirited citizenship. He is sincerely attached to his adopted country, and no voice during the re bellion was more patriotie than his. No word over utter by him has ever given offence to Protestants, many of when are to be found occasionally among his Sunday congregalion drawn thither by esteem for the man. . . . In days hk
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our own, when there has been so much ecclesiastical disturb- ance in many of the countries of Europe, it is refreshing to find an irreproachable priest, who has consistently exhibited in his own career the true modus vivendi between Church and State. His has been the loyal and spiritual Catholicism, which has characterized so many illustrious American Catholics. Like the late Archbishop Bayley, he has always been recognised by Americans as thoroughly in accord with the fundamental principles of the Republic. 'Handsome is that handsome does,' is his estimate of human con- duct; and he would neither detract from virtue, because he found it in those of a different belief, nor white- wash crime because it was done by those of his own reli- gion."
Never a self-seeker, Father Malone has not sought prefer- ment to higher office in the church, but has serenely abided iu his sphere as a parish priest with the people he has guided from infancy to mature age, and they are very dear to him. In May, 1852, at the age of thirty-one, he attended the First Plenary Council of the Church in the United States, at Baltimore. On the suggestion of Archbishop Hughes, he was appointed Theologian in that council to Bishop Reynolds, then Bishop of Charleston, S. C. Later, he prepared and de- livered the address to Bishop Loughlin of Brooklyn, on be- half of the priests of his diocese, accompanying the pre- sentation to him of a purse to defray his expenses, on the oc- casion of his first visit to Rome. In 1866, he attended the Second Plenary Council, held at Baltimore, as Theologian to the same Bishop.
On the 30th of October, 1878, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the consecration of Bishop Loughlin, he prepared and pre- sented the address of congratulation to him of the priests of Brooklyn on the event. Though brief, it contained an inter- esting and permanently valuable view of the growth of the church in its spiritual and material interests in the diocese, and was an eloquent testimony to the Bishop's administra- tion. He has been for many years a member of his Bishop's council.
In politics. Father Malone has been a member of the Re- publican party since its organization, and has given to it hearty support. He never acted with the Democratic party. His love for his kind, his eagerness for human progress, would not permit acceptance by him of its policy or methods. These were uncongenial to him, and in his view obnoxious to just principles of government, and therefore dangerous to the well-being of the nation.
His affection for his native land has caused him to take ac- tive interest in the movement by the Land League to amelio- rate her condition.
The following extract from one of his addresses from the pulpit, in reference to it, will serve alike to define his position on this point, and his clear, strong style:
" A people have the right to inhabit their own land, and to inherit all the benefits and happiness of living which may come to them in it. When this is denied to a people, every one should give his aid to them in putting off the misgovern- ment which allows and continues such a condition of affairs. On that account I am with the present Land League move- ment. I believe iu it and look upon it as the most promising movement that has yet stirred the thoughts of men every- where for justice to that land. But I go no further than the agitation of the Land League question on its merits. Those who counsel aud call for an uprising with arms are not those who seek the proper and most effective way to arouse the people to the justice of the questions embodied in the Land League movement. Be wary of those people. Agitate the question on its merits, and the great press of the country will make known the justice of the cause, and move a speedy rectification of the wrongs. Whatever is done, be careful that you do nothing to interfere with your line of duty as citizens of America. Exaggerated statements and exagger- ated threats only prove detrimental to your positions as citi- zens and detrimental to the cause you would see advanced.
" I have no word of approbation for any movement that contemplates an appeal to armed force. Agitate the ques- tion, create a moral sympathy for the oppressed of Ireland, and your movement will accomplish what an appeal to force would not-success.
" We here in America must not do anything which will bring this country into complications with a friendly govern- ment: and we must ignore those who hope by fire-crackers to make a stand against cannon, rifles, and all the improved implements of destruction in the hands of a strong govern- ment. When we become citizens of this great country- Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards and Irishmen-we swear allegiance to it, and for it we must ever be ready, even against the country we have left, to fight, and fight to con- quer."
In physique, Father Malone is of full average height and corpulent. He has a large, symmetrical head, and a strong face that in repose is very grave, but lights up on occasion with rare brightness. Dignified in manner, without being austere, he has in large measure the faculty of putting one at ease.
He is a close student and keeps in line with the leading thought and thinkers of the day. A thinker in the best sense, superficial men have no use for him. He has a very complete working library. There is not a book in it for show, and he knows his books as old friends.
Being a man of refined and cultivated tastes, he is, as may well be expected, a patron of the arts, and he is at once a generous and discriminating one. He has always caused a high standard of excellence to be maintained in the musical services of Sts. Peter and Paul's; and is a warm admirer of fine painting and sculpture which he studies with critical acumen and appreciation.
In private life he is genial, unostentatious, simple and tem- perate. To one who should know him there, it would not be difficult to believe of him, as he has stated, that retirement would be more congenial to his natural and acquired habits.
The worn and weary priest has always found in his house a place of rest and bountiful hospitality. To young men he has freely given with a parent's generosity and tenderness. His beneficence has helped forward many such in their chosen pursuits, more especially to the priesthood. To the unfortunate, the dependent, the shiftless and the weak, he is as a loving brother, a strong staff, a wise helper and a merci- ful chider; and he can be, to the wilfully corrupt, the sternly reproving judge. There is no weakness in his gentleness -- no hardness in his resoluteness-no more obstinacy. All true himself, he has a wide-reaching detestation of shams. His pulpit addresses are wholly extemporaneous. In them all mere display of rhetoric is studiously avoided. Uttered with definite aim and objects, they are practical, rich in pregnant suggestion, argumentative and logical; but they are always attractive, persuasive, and hold closely the attention of his hearers, so rife are they with the genius of his person- ality, fine manhood and true priestly character.
Often eloquent, he is always felicitously so in his funeral discourses. These latter would serve as excellent models in statement of matter and in style.
But it is in his altar talks with his people, that his fine mind and hearty and cultivated powers are best revealed to them, and by which they are most closely drawn to him. He exercises in these talks a never-weakening charm.
With greater significance and force than even he used then in his address to his Bishop, on the latter's twenty-fifth anni- versary, might his people deliver to him the testimony held in these words:
" They cannot but look up to their Priest as one most ex- emplary in his devotion to his sacred office: ever at his post; always accessible to every member of his flock, young or old, high or lowly, who claimed his fatherly ear or sympathy;
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always most willing to give to everyone the benefit of his couusels, and the light of his own experience.
When we say devotion to your high and sacred office, we meau fidelity to its duties in the strictest sense. Thus has the light of your example been a guide to all, priests and people. Thus has the influenceof your character served to form others to priestly fervor and apostolic zeak. We now look back over these pregnant forty years, and finding in your life and labors so much to be grateful for to the Eternal Shepherd of souls, we come in this presence to pay to you, who have been so long our good Shepherd, the homage of our congratulations and our gratitude. May God brighten the remaining years of your most useful life."
German Church of the Holy Trinity .- This church, Mon- trose avenue, near Ewen street (E. D.), was established in July, 1841, for the German Catholics. It was rebuilt in 1853, the corner-stone having been laid by Archbishop Hughes, June 29, in that year. The site and edifice were obtained at the sole expense of first Pastor, Rev. John Raffeiner, who directed it till his death, July 17, 1861.
The church proving inadequate to the wants of the con- gregation, in 1882. the foundation was laid for an elegant stone editice in the Gothic style of the 13th century, which has a front of 75 feet ou Montrose avenue, by a depth of 180 feet. This new church, which is not yet completed, will be finished in the finest style, and will cost $250,000. The fami- lies in the parish number about 900. The schools in connec- tion with the church contain 1,700 scholars. The boys are taught by lay-teachers, and the girls by the Sisters of St. Dominic.
Clergy : 1. Very Rev. John Raffeiner, V. G. Pastor, 1841 -'61: assistants, John Raffeiner, Jr., 1848-49; Rev. John Rauferisen, 1849-'5); Rev. Maurus Ramsauer, 1850-'51; Rev. Frederic Jung, 1851-52: Rev. Casper Metzler, 1853; Rev. Joseph Huber, 1853-'56 ; Rev. Alois Enders, 1856-'57; Rev. P. Albrecht, 1857-'59; Rev. Michael May, 1859-61; Rev. John Ilauptman, 1859-61. 2. Rev. M. May, Pastor, 1861-'83; as- sistants, Rev. John Hauptman, 1861-'63; Rev. Anthony Arnold, 1862-'66; Rev. Joseph Ulrech, 1865-'66; Rev. Gustav Kamerer, 1866-'69; Rev. Peter Deaffenbach, 1869-'75; Rev. P. J. Schwarg, 1869-'75; Rev. C. Muller, 1870-'74; Rev. J. F. Hauselman, 1877-'80; Rev. F. X. Pauletigi, 1877-'79; Rev. J. B. Willman, 1877; Rev. Geo. Feser, 1880-83; Rev. Geo. Kaupert, 1881-'84.
Rev. MICHAEL MAY, boru in Bavaria, 1826: came to Brook- lyn May 30, 1859, as assistant to Father Raffeiner at Holy Triuity; appointed Pastor, July, 1862; founded Ch. of An- nunciation, 1862; built parish schools later, St. Nicholas' C'h., and All Saints Ch .; built an Orphan Asylum, St. Catharine's Hospital, and new church, 1881-'83, of stone, 88 feet by 170, and 70 feet in height, with two towers, 200 feet high; cost $200,000.
St. Patrick's Church -This church, cor. of Kent and Willoughby avenues, was the first R. C. Church in East Brooklyn. It was commenced in 1818 by the Res. Hugh McGuire, and was for some years known as the Wallabout Church. It was dedenited in honor of St. Patrick, August 30, 1556.
Clergy : Revs. Hugh McGuire, 1848-'60; Patrick O'Neill, 1553-51; John Dowling, 1851-55; Henry O'Neil, 1857-58; Peter C. Fagan, 1863-61; Edward Fitzpatrick, 1870-'72; J. Conlon, 1570; Francis Lennon, 1870 71; John Purcell, 1871 79; John MeCollum, 1872-75; Thomas Taufe, Pastor, from 1473 to present time: Andrew O'Connell, 1873-77; M. S. Boylan, 1877; Henry .1. Zimmer, 1877 79; Juo. MeCloskey. 1-74 3; Wmn. Giles, 158; M. Goodwin, 1879; las. Bobier. 1450-43. James Taife. 1980 43; E J. MeGoldrick, 1852 83; Thomas A. Ma Caffrey, 1583.
Rev. JAMES TAAFE, born at Dromard, Ireland; grad. Clou- gowes Wood College, 1872: studied at Coll. de Ste. Marie, Toulouse, and Sem. St. Sulpice, Paris: ordained 1878: app. curate in Brooklyn, 1879.
Church of St. Charles Borromeo .- The Episcopal Church on Sydney place was purchased by the Roman Catholics in 1851; and the Rev. Charles Constantine Pise, then Pastor of St. Peter's Church, in Barclay street, New York, was sent over by Archbishop Hughes to take cliarge of the new church and parish. Dr. Pise was a gentleman of the most refined tast-s and scholarly attainments, and he soon gathered to his church a congregation of the élile of the Catholic population of the city. Dr. Pise died in 1-66, and his successor, Dr. Freel, purchased, at a cost of $25,000, ground adjoining the church and pastoral residence for a church site. In 1868. the okl church, with its valuable organ, its superb frescoes and fine collection of music, was burned. Measures were at once in- stituted to build a new church which is 130 feet in length by 75 in width, and cost about $70,000. The walls of the old church were turned into St. Philomena's School on Sidney place. It is a somewhat remarkable fact that on one occasion the Rt. Rev. Levi Silliman Ives, as Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, ordained in this church the Rev. Donald Macleod, as a minister of the Episcopal Church; and that, not many years after, they met again, both Roman Catholics, in this church, which had also like them become Roman Catholic.
Clergy : Rev. C. C. Pise, D. D., 1851-66; Rev. Joseph Fran- sioli, 1857-'59; Rev. David O'Mullanc, 1863-64; Rev. F. J. Frecl, D. D., 1866-'84; Rev. Thomas F. MeGivern, 1866-71: Rev. Jas. Doherty, 1870: Rev. Chas. Hubert, 1872; Rev. Jas S. Duffy, 1873-'78; Rev. Iguatins O'Brien, 1874; Rev. Denis A. Tivenan, 1875; Rev. Thomas Ward, 1875-'84; Rev. Jere- miah Brosnan, 1878-83. Dr. Freel died in March, 1884.
St. Joseph's, Pacific strect, near Vanderbilt avenue, is a brick edifice, with a scating capacity of fifteen hundred. It was erected in 1853, and afterwards enlarged. There are large schools connected with it; the boys' school of 600 pupils under the care of the Franciscan Brothers, and the girls' school with 450 children in attendance conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph.
Clergy : Rev. P. O'Neill, 1853-67; Rev. Edward Corcoran, 1867-83. Assistant Pastors : Rev. Peter Kearney, 1867 72: Rev. William O'Donnell, 1870-71; Rev. P. J. McGlinchey 1876: Rev. Patrick McNamara, 1871-'74; Rev. James O'Rourke. 1873-75: Rev. Bernard McHugh, 1874-'75: Rev. John Ilogan, 1875; Rev. Thos. S. Reilly, 1875-78; Rev. John Loughran, 1879-81; Rev. C. J. Curtin, 1881-'83; Rev. P. J. MeGlinchey, 1882-84.
St. John's Church, 21st st., was org, abont the year 1546, and a wooden cdifice erected. For several years there was no settled Pastor. Rev. Peter McLoughlin was Pastor iu 1555-'6; Rev. Francis Mckeon, 1856-'57; Rev. J. MeGovern, 1857-'60, Rev. Hugh MeGuire, 1860-'73; and the present Pastor, Rev. James O'Beirne, since 1873. The Assistant Pastors have been: Rev. Peter Daly, Rov. John McGuire, Rev. Michael Hickey. Rev. Patrick Mulligan, and Rev. Bernard A. Plunkett. The church buikling was enlarged in 1872, and now has a seating capacity of 1,280. Near the church is a convent of the sisters of St. Joseph, erected by Father O'Beirne in 1876. Two schools are maintained: one for boys, under the charge of the Franciscan Brothers, and one for girls, under the Sisters of St. Joseph. The average attendance at theso schools is 900. The church property is valued at $60,000.
Rev. JAMES O'BEIRNE, born in Ireland, 1922: grad. St. Pat rick's Coll .. Maynooth, 1852; located Flushing, L. 1, 1553 'S3; B'klyn, 1873 'S1; Rev. Bernard A. Plunkett, died Nov. 1553; sneereded by Rev. Michael A. Naughton.
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Church of the Immaculate Conception .- This church, sit- lated on the corner of Maujer and Leonard streets, was com- nenced in 1853, the corner-stone having been laid Angnst 1st. t was a substantial brick structure, on a solid stone fonndation, 1 feet by 102. The interior is neatly and tastefully deco- ated, and the altar and organ are botlı fine. Including the t, the church cost $30,000. Clergy: Rev. Peter Mclaughlin, 853-'54; Rev. Anthony Farrelly, 1854-'55; Rev. A. Bohan, 853-64; Rev. John R. McDonald, 1864-'78; Rev. William Mc- losky, 1866-'67; Rev. Thomas Shanley, 1867-'69; Rev. Flor- uce Mccarthy, 1870; Rev. T. Reynolds, 1871; Rev. M. Nevin, 872-'75; Rev. M. Brennan, 1872-'75; Rev. James Woods, 877-'78; Rev. John Crimmins, 1879-'83; Rev. M. F. Murray, 879-83; Rev. A. J. O'Rourke, 1883-'84.
Church of St. Boniface .- In 1853, the Episcopal Chnrclı of t. Thomas, cor. of Willoughby and Bridge streets, was pur- hased by a German Catholic congregation, and was dedi- ated to Roman Catholic worship, nnder the above title, Jan. 9, 1834. Its Pastors have been: Rev. M. Ramsauer, 1855-'6; lev. B. Keller, 1857-'58; Rev. Joseph Brunemann, 1858-'59. lev. John G. Hnmmell, 1859-'64; Rev. Michael J. Decker, 864-68; Rev. W. Oberschneider, 1868-69; Rev. F. Bariffi, 870; Rev. P. DeBerge, 1871-'75; Rev. P. Schwarz, 1877; Rev. . B. Wittman, 1878-'84.
There are two flourishing schocls connected with the hurch.
St. Benedict's Church (German), Fulton ave., near Ralph, 3 a handsome brick edificc, 137 by 65 feet, built in 1874, at a ost of $60,000. The church was organized in 1853, and wor- hiped first in a building on Herkimer st., which, since the lew church was completed, has been used as a school-honse, inder the charge of the Sisters of Christian Charity. Its Pastors have been: Revs. M. Ramsauer, 1855-'6; B. Keller, 856-'8; A. Enders, 1857-'8; Joseph Tuboly, 1858-63; T. Al- recht, 1861-2; F. Klosterbauer, 1863-'73 ; M. Koehren, 874-'5; Henry Zimmer, 1875-6; Ignatins Zeller, 1877-'83; Michael N. Wagner, S. T. L., 1881-'4.
St. Mary's Star of the Sea .- This church, Court st., cor. of Luqucer, was erected chiefly through the exertions of Rev. Mr. Bacon, afterwards Bishop of Portland. It is one of he largest church edifices in the city, having a seating capa- ity of nearly 2,000. It was dedicated April 29, 1853. The nterior was frescoed, and the spire finished in 1872. Father Bacon was succeeded as Pastor by Revs. James McGinnis, rom 1855 to 1857; Eugene Cassidy, from 1857 to 1876; Law- ence Toner, Curate in charge, 1876-"7; and the present Pas- or, Henry O'Loughlin, 1877-'83. The Assistant Clergy have een: Revs. J. McKenna; Stephen Cassidy; J. M. Reilly; Tohn Heffernan, 1871; Florence McCarthy, 1872-'3; Felix )'Callaghan, 1872-'4; Daniel Shcehy, 1874; Lawrence Toner, 875-'3; Peter O'Neill, 1875; Peter McGnire, 1877-'81; Michael Dennison, 1878; Ed. Wm. Dulles, 1879-'80; Joseph Kilpatrick, 880-1; P. Kenny, 1881.
St. Mary's Parochial School was established in 1855, and vas kept in the chapel, and in the basement, till 1868, when he present brick structure was erected, throngli the exer- ions of Father Cassidy. The average attendance is 1,000.
St. Francis' Church, Putnam ave., near Bedford, was started in 1857 as a German church, Rev. Bonaventure Keller being its Pastor for two years. The building is of brick, 75 y 25 feet. So many of its German parishioners removed hat it was closed for five years. In 1866, services were ugain commenced, with Rev. N. Balleis, O. S. B., as Pastor, who still continues in charge.
The property was devised by its owner, Father Keller, to he Orphan Asylumu of Holy Trinity Church, and is still held n trust for that institution.
Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary .- This church, on Ewen and Van Brunt sts., was begun in 1854, and dedicated Oct. 29, 1855. A handsome building, about 75 by 90 feet, of blue-stone, was commenced in 1880, and finished the following year, except the towers. Clergy : Revs. Timothy O'Farrell, 1834-'69; Jolin Cummings, 1865-'6; Isaac Miguely Diaz, 1868-'9; T. O'Farrell, 1870-7; T. Rey- nolds, 1870; E. McCarty, 1871-'4; Florence McCarthy, 1874: Huglı Hand, 1875-83; M. Riordan, 1877-'81; Jolm M. Kiely, 1878-'81; Wm. J. Lane, 1881-'4.
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