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Churches, 1874

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Church Eviction

Evening News · Thursday 2 April 1874 · page 3

A REMARKABLE scene, reminding one if the incidents of domestic misery that have attended the eviction from their homes of the peasantry of Ireland mid the north of Scotland, occurred exactly…

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The Priest ! the Parish Priest !

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 April 1874 · page 4

"Parish priest" in Ireland always means a priest of the Roman Catholic Church; but the title is now not unfrequently given to the parochial clergy of the Church of England above the…

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Election of Churchwardens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 April 1874 · page 5

AT Vestry meetings in the following parishes, the undermentioned gentlemen were elected for the ensuing year. PADDINGTON.—At St. Matthias's Church, Mr. J. B. Durham, minister's church warden; and Mr. R. Westaway, people's…

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"The Flower Mission."

Sydney Punch · Friday 10 April 1874 · page 2

WE hear a voice from our Sister-land, Which seems like an echo from over the wave--So pure is the thought of that good bright band, Who are striving the poor and the maimed to save…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1874 · page 6

MARCH 24.—A public meeting was held in St. James's achoolroom, Bishop Barker presiding, at which it was resolved to institute a Church of England Temperance Society…

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Catholic Directory

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 April 1874 · page 8

Sunday, 12.—Low Sunday—1st after Easter dup. Tototemp Parsch A post et Ma't habent O prop in festis B. M. V. Conf Pont et non Pont, Virg et non Virg ac alior…

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Catholic School, Young

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 April 1874 · page 6

THE Easter examination of the pupils of the certified Roman Catholic Denominational School took place (reports the Burrangong Chronicle) in the schoolroom on Wednesday afternoon, in…

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Holy Week.—st. Matthew's Church, Windsor

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 April 1874 · page 10

As a suitable introduction to the ceremonies of Hely Week, the Very Rev. Dr. Shechy, on Palm Sunday, delivered a simple yet full aud instructive discource, explanatory of the mysteries and…

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St. Stephen's Church, Newtown

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 April 1874 · page 21

UPWARDS of twenty-five years have elapsed since the old church of St. Stephen's, Newtown, was erected in Bedford-street, on an allotment of ground…

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Perversion of St. Alban's Church, Holborn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1874 · page 8

LAST week we called our readers attention to Mr. Akroyd's difficulty at Copley, and incidentally mentioned that against the will of the founder and patron of St. Alban's, that church had been perverted to…

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Sympathy with the Catholics in Germany. Grand Metting at St. James's Hall in London. (From the Weekly Register and Catholic Standard, February 14.)

Empire · Wednesday 15 April 1874 · page 3

AN overwhclming and enthusiastic meeting, convened by the Catholic Union, was held on Friday, the 6th Feb., at St. James's Hall, Regent-street, London, to express sympatliy with the Catholics of Germany, under…

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The London Catholic Meeting

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 8

THE papers by the last Suez mail have brought some very important and very gratifying news. A great, a noble meeting has been held by the Catholics of England…

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The Catholic Cemetery—devonshire Street

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 9

MANY of our metropolitan readers will be glad to learn—as they will by reference to an advertisement in another column—that tenders have been invited for the erection of a mortuary…

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THE Great Catholic Meeting in St. James's Hall, London

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 2

THIS great and imposing assembly, summoned boy the Catholic Union of Great Britain to express sympathy with their persecuted brethren in Germany, took place on the 6th February, at…

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Sympathy with the Catholics of Germany. (From the Weekly Register and Catholic Standard, February 14.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 24

AN overwhelming and enthusiastic meeting, convene by the Catholic Union, was hold on Friday, the 6th Fob., at St. James's Hall, Regent-street, London, to express sympathy with the Catholics of Germany, under…

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The Churches

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 5

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.--Bishop Barker is to be requested to lay the foundation stone of the addition to the Cathedral at Bathurst, and the Hon. John Campbell and Hon. Charles…

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Signated Answer of Church of Ireland Protestant Defence Association. "Thou wicked servant." --Luke xix. 22

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 4

It is my glory that I am. " Protestant" in Latin, and "Martyr" in Greek are synonymous, and mean "witnesses" for truth, and against error…

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St. Mary's Catholic Church Young

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 April 1874 · page 7

The plans for the new church, St. Mary's the foundation-stone of whcih is to be laid by his Lordship the Catholic Bishop of Goulburn on the 21st May next, have been received by…

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Bengala; or Some Time Ago. an Australian Story. Chapter Xv. Lynch Sleep. Isabel Acts. They buried Nellie in the new churchyard

Evening News · Saturday 25 April 1874 · page 4

Two graves now caught the eye of travellers on the nigh road, and for some time after it was still only two, none other being added. On the very day they bore her this last home…

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Victoria. New Church at Oxford

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 April 1874 · page 6

The Roman Catholic Church at Oxford has just been completed, and, we believe, will shortly be opened by the Rev. Father O'Dowd. The want of a place of worship in this rising district of…

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