Historical Researches
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Excerpt from Historical Researches: In Western Pennsylvania, Principally Catholic A movement in the proper direction, however, it appears, has lately been inaugurated, and numbers of Catholic papers are having the local history of their dioceses written up; and let us hope the day has come when our eyes are being opened to the importance of our past history. General history must be compiled from local annals, and the more detailed and accurate the latter, the more correct and satisfactory the former will also be. Who would not be interested in tracing the history of the Church in this country, where it has multiplied its numbers so rapidly in the last ninety years; who would not be still more interested in the earlier missionary annals? Or, take Western Pennsylvania from the days of Father Bonnechamps, the companion of Celorou, to the present; or only the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny. Eighty years ago there were in these two cities but half a dozen Catholic families, with no priest, no church, no religious, educational or charitable institution, and compare it with the present, when we have 28 churches, with 12 large chapels, 77 priests, and such an array of institutions as I need not pause to enumerate; and when the few souls have grown to about 66,000. Who, though an infidel, could be indifferent to the growth, the vicissitudes and the triumphs of such an organization? Years ago I came to the conclusion, which the lapse of time has but tended to confirm, that there should be a Catholic historical magazine in this country, in which the early records of religion could be put in a suitable form for permanent preservation. Let us but transport ourselves forward a hundred years, and reflect on the value that would then be attached to such a work, and the debt of gratitude posterity would feel it owed us. And, as I have said, no nation could have a better opportunity. But lest this idea should be attributed to the enthusiasm with which a man is naturally inspired in any matter that he espouses with earnestness, permit me to subjoin the following extracts from some of the letters I have received on the subject of our early history from those who should be capable of attaching a proper value to such a work. The Archbishop of Cincinnati, referring to the preparation of local histories, says: "It is much to be desired that every local pastor should to the best of his power collect all the written and oral reminiscences concerning the early history of his own congregation and the neighboring ones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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