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Churches, 1872

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Sixth Scene. the Church

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1872 · page 89

THE time is morning; the date is early in the month of November. The place is a church, in a poor and populous parish in the undiscovered regions of London, eastward of the Tower, and hard by the…

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Portion of Sydney and Sydney Cove, Looking East From Church Hill, 1792

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 20 January 1872 · page 3

As the anniversary of the Colony of New South Wales is rapidly approaching, and will have passed away before we again appear in print, we issue with this number a…

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St. Peter and Paul's Church, Emerald Hill

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 20 January 1872 · page 5

The church of St. Peter and Paul, Emerald- hill, of which we present…

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The Catholic Association

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 January 1872 · page 10

The adjourned meeting of the Association was held in the Committee rooms. St. Mary's, on Monday evening. The Very Rev. S. J. A. Sheehy, V.G., presided. There were also…

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The New Catholic Cathedeal, Aemidale

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 January 1872 · page 10

The Catholic Cathedral, Armidale, will be opened and solemnly consecrated on Friday next. His Grace the Archbishop, and their lordships the Right Rev. Drs. Murphy, Quinn…

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Scene in a Dundee Church

Evening News · Saturday 27 January 1872 · page 3

THERE was a scene in one of the churches in this town on November 7th. The minister had just ascended to the pulpit, and was preparing to give out the first psalm, when a man in the centre of the…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1872 · page 8

DECEMBER 22.—An address, a plece of plate, and 200 sovereigns, were presented to the Rev. D. E. Jones, of Albury, on the occasion of his departure from that town to Tumut, in success on to the Rev. W. H. Pownall, who…

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Scene in a Dundee Church

Empire · Tuesday 30 January 1872 · page 4

THERE was a scene in one of the churches in this town on November 7th. The minister had just ascended to the pulpit, and was preparing to give out the first psalm, when a man in the centre of the…

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Growth of the Catholic Church in United States

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 February 1872 · page 3

We have been favoured, by the author with the following interesting extract from the Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, by Richard…

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The Memorial Church at Loigny

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 February 1872 · page 5

Loigny is a small village between Orleans and Chartres, and was the scene of one of the most brilliant feats of arms in the recent war. It was here, and not at Patay, the…

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Scene in a Dundee Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 February 1872 · page 23

There was a scene in one of the churches in this town on November 7th. The minister had just ascended to the pulpit, and was preparing to give out the first psalm, when a man in the centre of the…

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The British Premier and the Church of Rome

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1872 · page 3

THE following correspondence appears in the Huningdonshire News:— "To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. "Plas Madoc, Ruabon, September 25, 1871…

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Great Britain. Departure of a Catholic Mission to Negroes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 February 1872 · page 3

Saturday evening, the 18th November, the Foreign Mission College of St. Joseph's, at Aill-hill, near Middlesex, was the scene of a highly curious and interesting ecclesiastical…

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Catholic Association

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 February 1872 · page 7

The monthly meeting of this Association was held in St. Mary's Committee Rooms on Thursday evening. There were present the Very; Rev. S. J. A. Sheeny, V.G., (in the chair) the…

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Catholic Cathedral, Armidale

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 February 1872 · page 9

Your numerous readers must have been prepared for the solemn opening and blessing of this beautiful edifice. The advertisement which appeared in the columns of the Freeman, and…

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Diocese of Maitland. Visit of the Right Rev. Dr. Quinn, Bishop of Bathurst. Opening of the New Roman Catholic Church, Jerry's Plains

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 February 1872 · page 9

Sunday, the 28th ultimo, was an eventful day in our little township for on that occasion a ceremony took place such as may never again be witnessed by the present generation. For the…

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The "Old Catholic" Movement

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 17 February 1872 · page 3

If we turn from Bavaria to Prussia, there too the hostile forces are set in array against each, other. A manifesto by several Prussian Bishops, in favour of the Jesuits rather reminds one of…

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The New Catholic Cathedral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 February 1872 · page 9

On Sunday" last, says the Sauthern Argus, immediately after 11 o'clock Mass, a meeting of the congregation of Saints Peter and Paul's Cathedral, Goulburn, was held…

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Victoria. St. Patrice's Catholic Young Men's Society

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 February 1872 · page 4

The class in connection with the above society for the study of the French language and general literature held a social meeting on Tuesday last. The language of the earlier…

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The Missionees for the Negeoes. Their Arrival in Baltimore — Installation at St. Francis Xavier's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 February 1872 · page 1

The impressive ceremony of formally receiving the missionary priests lately arrived in this city from St. Joseph's College of Foreign Missions, Middlesex, England…

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