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Title: The Catholic churches of New York City, with sketches of their history and lives of the present pastors : with an introduction on the early history of Catholicity on the island, and lives of the most reverend archbishops and bishops
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
Subjects: Catholic Church Catholic Church Church buildings
Publisher: New York : L.G. Goulding
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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y it-the Riverside Hospital for Small PoxPatients, situated on Blackwells Island. This institutionwas placed under the care of seven Sisters of Charity,on the 3d of February, 1875. The number of patientshas been about three thousand every year, and whih^ allreceive alike the kindest and most devoted care, theCathoUc patients have also spiritual aid from the self-sacrificing Sisters who brave disease to serve them. Another institution of the Sisters of Charity is theSt. Josephs Home for Aged and Destitute Women, atNos. 203 to 209 West Fifteenth Street. It was openedon the nth of May, 1868, and had always about twohimdred and fifty inmates. LADIES OF THE SACRED HEART. CONVENT AND ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART,MANHATTANVILLE. This religious order, devoted entirely to the causeof female education, and especially to the highest andmost accomphshed Clmstian training of young ladies, wasfounded in France by Madame Magdalen Josephine Barat,in 1800, under the gtndance of the Jesuit Father Varin.
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w rJ-1 > iz;oo CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS OF NEW YORK. 739 Their rule was approved, in 1826, by Pope LeoXII., who invited them to Rome, where they estabhshedthree convents. Their first estabHshment in tlie United States was atFlorissant, Missouri, in 1817. Archbishop Hughes, in1841, obtained from the venerable Superior, Madame Ba-rat, a colony of her religioiis, and the convent in NewYork Avas founded by Madame Elizabeth Galitzin, a Rus-sian princess. Their fii-st house was in Houston Street,then in Bleecker Street, but as the city was unsuitedto a large boarding-school, they removed to Astoria, in1844. Two years afterwards they piu-chased the Loril-lard estate, at Manhattanville, and established the bestCatholic academy for young ladies in the diocese.Pupils of the highest social standing, Catholic and Prot-estant, have been trained here in all the culture andaccomplishments which can adorn the sex, and the reli-gious instiiiction is solid. There are now thi-ee

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