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'ST 21, 1915.HOBOKENFirst Church 11 h GrownFather Cauvln Introduced the 81aters of the Poor of St. Francis, who on May fi, 1868, opened St.. Mary's Hospital. In which the lute Mayor Gaynor. of Now York, waa a patient at the time of the attempt on his , life. Father Cauvln made a passable ,nto school out of an cthe INisslonist Monastery of St. Michael.Voted New .Jersey Shrine Founded by Father Anthony Cauvln.One of the Three Priest Brothers Who Lung Served the Church.SECURED MANY HARE TREASURESBy James A. Rooney, LL. D.On the morning of August 18. 1874, the feast of St. Helena, mother of iOonstauttne. the titular of the pariah church In n Utile hamlet called Sclos, near Nice, France, then In the kingdom of Sardinia, three brothers, prleata, officiated at tho aolesun mass of celebration. The Rev, Sixtus Cauvln. aged elghty-two, was the celebrant; the Rev. Eugene Cauvln. aged ninety, waa the deacon, and the Rev. Anthony Cauvln, in bla sixty-fourth year, was the sub-deacon. It must have been an Inspiring spectacle for the pious people to see these three aged brothers, all natives of their own village, and known and beloved by everybody, officiating together at the same altar. It waa the first time they did so since the return of tho youngest brother from America, who only the year before had come back to hia old home and bis own people to spend the remaining years lof his life with them.He was one of the most modest of men and he may not even then have told them of the great things bo accomplished for God and the church during the imany years of toll [he had spent In the sacred ministry in a far-off country; but it was he who founded the parish and built the first church In West Hoboken, [which has since grown into the Paaalonists' great monastery of St. Michael, and he, (oo, who founded tho parish and built the Church of Our Lady of Grace. Hoboken, from which he retired to pass his declining years in bis native village, where he lived to bo over ninety years of •go.Father Cauvln waa the ninth of the ten children of Giacomo and Marghsrlte Cauvln, pious, educated. God-fearing people, who lived to see three of their sons ordained to the priesthood. He was born on August 23, 1810, and made his studies at Avignon. Turin, and In the college of his brother Slxtua at Monaco. He was ordained by Cardinal Brlgnoll-Sole, October 12. 1834. and after a short service aa chaplain for the notorious Count Cavour and years of parish work, he decided to come to New York to labor among hla countrymen. Ho was assistant at St. Vincent de Paul's, then in Canal street, then at Cold Spring and West Point, when Archbishop Hughes assigned him to establish a pariah comprising the territory lying between the Hudson and the Hackensack rivers and extending from the Jersey City line to the northern boundary of 'Hudson county. This Included the Hobokons, whose Catholics had to go to mass In St. Peter’s. Jersey Clt.v, or In old St. Peter's. New York.A plot of ground had been donated to the Archbishop by Andrew Carrlgan, near the present 8t. Michael's Monastery, and there Father Cauvln built a small church and rectory and enclosed tho plot by a fence. It was dedicated November 23, 1851, under the patronage of Our Ludy of Mercy in compliment to Cardinal Brlgnoll, who sent Trom Rome a present of an oil copy of the painting of Our Lady of Mercy of Rlmlnl, painted by Nicola Paci-fppolltl Here Father Cauvln labored for ten years besides visiting Fort Lee. Bull'a Ferry. Hackensack and Lodi, all of which now have their own churches and congregation*. Father Dominic, Provincial of the Pasalonlsta, with Father Vincent and Brother Lawrence, ur-rlved tn 1861 and on April 21 tho parish was turned ovor to the caro of that order.But years before when Father Cauvln had the parish In good running order he began to lay plans for another church In Hoboken and be secured the original ground of the present Church of Our Lady of Grace, which was enlarged by subsequent purchases so aa to Include the entire block. The original outlay was 82,600. Bishop James Roosevelt Bay ley. who waa oon-secrated October 30, 1853. and had assumed charge of the new dlocoaa of Newark, laid the cornerstone September 4, 1864, and preached to a large congregation and, June 24, the next year tho church was dedicated. Among Its treasures is a magnificent altar piece, a copy of Raphael's Madonna dl Foitgno. painted by Anasldl and presenrd by the Duke or Genoa; n painting of the crucifixion prcesnted by Henry '.L. Hoguot, of Now York; a diamond-studded crown from the Duchess of Genoa for the statue of Our Lady and a valuable monstrance from Napoleon TELDuring a visit to Rome tn 1868 Father Cauvln was presented by Plus IX. with tho relics of Rt. Quintus/ which had been discovered in the catacomb of St. Praetextatus In 1849. Those were solemnly enshrined June I, I860, iu an altar under the patronage of the saint by Baylay. The same year
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