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CHAPTER V. 



FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SECOND YEAR OF HIS 

 EPISCOPACY UNTIL HIS DEATH. 1 845 — 1 848. 



During the first year of his mission that was 

 now passed, he had surmounted all the difficulties 

 that threatened his outset. His Cathedral was 

 finished and paid for ; his College and Seminary were 

 in progress; he had supplied with pastors many 

 missions hitherto deprived of the consolation of 

 religion; and although he came to a Diocese almost 

 stripped of clergymen, he had now a goodly array 

 with which to battle against the powers of darkness. 

 He had ordained seven young men, and occasionally 

 an American or an Irish or a German priest would 

 find his way to this far-out corner of the Church, 

 adding to his numbers and his strength. 



As the clergymen who could minister to the 

 spiritual wants of the people increased, so did the 

 numbers of the people increase. Catholics began 

 now to pour in from other and distant states and 

 countries; and St. Mary's Church was already too 

 small to contain all the worshippers that came up to 

 bow their hearts and bend their knees before her holy 

 altar. A new church was required to accommodate 

 them, and on the loth of March, 1846, the frame of 

 St. Patrick's Church, on the west side of the Chicago 

 River, was erected by the Very Rev. Walter Quarter, 

 who was the first pastor of it. 



