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anniversary mass m, % p.m. Sunday June 21, with his Eminence Lawrence Cardinal Sbehan, Archbishop of the Baltimore Diocese as celebrant. Chief con-celebrants were the Rev. EdwardT. Sargus, former pastor of St. Peter's and now at St. Stephen's Church, Bradshaw, and the Rev. Richard C, Mitchell, former assistant pastor of St. John's in Frederick, now at Ressurection of Our Lord parish, Maryland City in Anne Arundel County. 'The Rev. Herbert R. Jordan, former pastor of St. John's in Frederick, and now pastor of St. Edward's In Baltimore, delivered the jubilee sermon.Following the celebration at the church, dinner was served to the many dignitaries and parishioners and friends at the Liber-tytown Fire Hall.The origins of St. Peter’s par-icti mnct Hlrolv crn hflpkmasses id people s nomes.There is evidence that mass was said in the Coale Mansion in Libertytown, which is still standing. There was a priest’s room reserved for visiting priests who rode down the road from Frederick.Libertytown itself, first known as “Duke’s Woods,” had been selected as the Frederick County seat in 1739; a later plan set up the boundaries of the town in 1782 and a year later the town was named Libertytown to honor the “Sons of Liberty,” men of the area who had organized them-selves prior to the Revolution in opposition to the British Stamp Act.The first church in the Libertytown parish, near where the? present church stands, was a stone church that served for over fiftv vpars ta the Catholics inuauies viwiauis, a uauvc uj.Baltimore serving as Bishop of Richmond, Va., and was named in honor of St. Peter the Apostle. Bishop Gibbons had just returned from the first Vatican Council in Rome where he was one erf the youngest bishops present.St. Peter's was served by the Jesuits of Frederick until 1882 when the first resident pastor was assigned to serve the people of Libertytown, the Rev.J. Henry Conway, who served for three years*There are no available records of those priests of the Society erf Jesus who had served the pastoral needs, of the prishon-ers from the opening of the original stone church in 1821 until Father Conway's appointment. Their work must have been deeply appreciated since itinfluenced so greatly the religious baek-WAtmd nf manv ancestors of to.«UtU Uiuugli IKS VIUJ acivcu uu ccyears, left perhaps the deepest impression of being a most remarkable person. Stories are told of Father Reany competing in the annual jousting tournaments and it was said he was such an expert rider, he could lean from the horses back while the horse was at a full gallop, and pick a handkerchief from the ground. It was during his pastorate that the school, Notre Dame Academy, was begun, here again through the generosity of Miss Sallie Sappington, hi the cemetery, Father Beany built a small grotto to the “tombless dead,” Shortly before he left to assume a chaplaincy in the Navy in 1892, he had begun several projects for the welfare erf the Negroes in the area.The next four pastors served short periods of time but in1902 the Rev. Samuel J. Kav-IVUlWVTIOt *JV ufrom the original church to build the foundation of the parish hall. He had erected at the gates to the cemetery a Calvary statuary group in memory of the passengers of the ill-fated Titanic. In 1914 he built onahill overlooking the cemetery, a replica of the Lourdes grotto. Another memorial he had dedicated was to the only parishioner killed during WW I.The pastors since Father Kav-anaugh were the Revs. Martin McNulty, Philip Farrell, John L. Collins, Thomas Haggerty, Michael W. Hyle, Stephen Chy-linski, John Mountain, Edward T. Sargus, Martin W. Flahaven, and and the present pastor, the Rev* Francis Morrison.The past century has brought about many changes to the world but the strong faith of the Libertytown parish of St. Peter's church
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Sat, Jun 27, 1970
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