Fifty years in Yorkville, or, Annals of the parish of St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Lawrence O'Toole (1917) (14779326181)

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Title: Fifty years in Yorkville, or, Annals of the parish of St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Lawrence O'Toole
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Dooley, Patrick Joseph
Subjects: New York (City) St. Ignatius Loyola church
Publisher: New York, (Frank Meany co., printers, inc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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in thedays of his need. His ministrations brought him into contact frequent-ly with a neighboring institution, St. Josephs GermanOrphan Asylum, on Eighty-Ninth Street and AvenueA. All the Germans at that time in Yorkville attendedthe little Chapel of the Orphan Asylum, where a priestspeaking their own language could hear their confes-sion, preach to them and administer to them the LastSacraments when no one else could serve them. Withthe advent of the great brewing companies to thevicinity, the number of German Catholics grew beyondthe capacity of the Asylum Chapel, and many were be-ginning to neglect the Sacraments to the imminentdanger of their faith. Feeling pity for them, andmoved by zeal for their souls, Father Durthaller triedto gather them at St. Lawrences for Mass and for con-fessions as far as they could be persuaded to come.The language, as always in the first generation, was astumbling block. Few cared to go to church wherethe sermons were unintelligible, and though Father
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DIVISION 91 Durthaller strove harder and harder, and confined hislabors mainly to the Germans during his second yearhere, he was forced to conclude that in order to pre-serve the adults, and bring up the young in the faith,he would have to construct a German Church. TheArchbishop and his Superiors agreed with his views,and authorized him to establish a German parish. Fortwo years he labored hard to collect funds for his pro-ject, never desisting on account of indifference or re-buffs. His zeal, his kindness and his winning author-ity were so far successful that before long he had achurch, school and residence. Meantime he was sup-ported and supplied with meals at the House of theGood Shepherd, retiring each night to Eighty-FourthStreet after a day of many disappointments and someconsolations. But the consolations grew more andmore frequent as the people began to know and lovetheir pastor, and to perceive that all his efforts sprangfrom the purest unselfishness, and from love of theiri