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Souvenir of the Golden Jubilee of the Immaculate Conception Church Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection Rochester Public Library Reference Book Not For Circulation NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection SpUVENIR OF THE GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE Immaculate Conception Church ROCHESTER, NEW YORK December 10th 1899 7/ Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection me JOHH R sniTit PRINTING flOVSE MCMESTER.H.Y. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection 705050 TITULAR PATRONESS OF THE CHURCH. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE CHURCH. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection INTERIOR VIEW OF THE CHURCH. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection BH (mm 4 1 i IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PAROCHIAL SCHOOL HOUSE. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL HOUSE AND SCHOOL HALL. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection • 1 iJm Ml. 1 |i •1 8 1• \ •ft i n ^_ • • " '.' . - •• IMMACULATE CONCEPTION RECTORY. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection RT. REV. B. J. MCQUAID, D. D., BISHOP OF ROCHESTER. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. AUGUSTINE M. O'NEILL, RECTOR. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. HENRY P. HYLAND, ASSISTANT PRIEST Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection DECEASED RECTORS Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. JOHN FITZPATRIOK. DIED AUGUST 20TH, 1868. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. PETER BEDE, DIED AUGUST 13TH, 1870. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. PATRICIO BYRNES. DIED MARCH 26TH. 1875. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. MICHAEL M. MEAGHER. DIED JANUARY 22D, 1886. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection F O'HARE. D. D., V. C. DIED AUGUST 5TH, 1898. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection Priests who were formerly Boys of the Parish Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. A. J. BRENNAN. DIED SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1874. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. J. J. S. MCCARTHY, DI-D JULY 15TH. 1890. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. J. P HEANEY, RECTOR OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH, MENDOTA III. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. A. A. HUGHES. ASSISTANT PRIEST AT ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDKAL. ROCHESTER. N. Y. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. B. W. GOMMENGINGER. ASSISTANT PRIEST AT ST. BRIDGET'S CHURCH. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. W. C. REILLY. ASSISTANT PRIEST AT ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH.^BROOKLYN, N. Y. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. S. V. MCPADDEN. ASS.STANT PRIEST AT ST. FRANCS DE SALES' CHURCH GENEVA, N Y. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection REV. THOMAS F. CONNORS, ASSISTANT PRIEST AT ST. MARY'S CHURCH, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection PAROCHIAL SCHOOL GRADUATED CLASS OF 1899. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection Remember the days of old; think upon every generation , ask thy father, and he will declare to thee thv elders, and they will tell thee. Deut. XXXII, 7. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection FIVE JOYFUL DECADES fT\UR Saviour has most appropriately compared his kingdom, the Church, to a grain of JVJ mustard seed. We are amazed when we consider the fact that that tiny seed develops into a large tree amidst whose thick foliaged branches the birds delight to dwell. The history of the Catholic church tells us of a growth even more phenomenal. What could be more humble than her origin ? Her Founder was crucified as a malefactor; her Apostles were illiterate and timid men ; her adherents were an insignificant number; her doctrines were distasteful to the pagan world. Jew and gentile were arrayed against her. The philosophers ridiculed her teachings, and kings and emperors decreed her destruction. The finger of God, however, is as perceptible in her growth, as it was discernible in the miracles of Moses. The infusion of the Holy Spirit into the Apostles, changed them from illiterate and timid men into learned and brave expounders of the gospel. They stood before the tribunals and told the ones in authority that forbade them to preach : " We prefer to obey the voice of God to that of men," and they successfully defended before philosophers the doctrines of the unknown God. They were called upon to seal their teachings with their blood, but they were rewarded with martyrs' crowns, and faithful successors continued their noble work. Persecution followed persecution for three hundred years and when, considered from a human standpoint, it seemed as though the Church would be destroyed, the Divine Master stretched forth his hand to her 57 Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection assistance, as before he preserved the ship in which he was with his disciples by miraculously calming the winds and the waves. The subsequent history of the Church is the chronicling of constant refutation of heresies under various forms, the enduring of painful persecutions, and the constant upholding, despite the opposition of the world, of the lofty principles inculcated by Christ. But why, the reader may ask, is reference made to the general history of the Church, when this booklet is meant only as a souvenir of the Golden Jubilee of a local parish? Simply because the spiritual work performed in this parish of the Immaculate Conception, is identical with that inculcated by Christ and the Apostles. Fifty years appear to. us a long period of time. Fifty years in sunshine and shadow the cross of Christ has been upheld in this congregation of the Immaculate Conception of Rochester. We take a just pride in what has been accomplished during that time, but our real reason for rejoicing is that our cause is identical with that which Christ himself defended nineteen hundred years ago; that we are members of the Catholic church which traces her origin back not only fifty or one hundred or three hundred years, but to Peter, the first Pope, to whom Christ said: "Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against her.1' The remembrance of this fact will enable us more easily to understand why the pioneers of Catholicity in this parish, undertook the herculean task of erecting and supporting a church for the south-western portion of Rochester. Obstacles confronted them on eveiy side. The Catholics living here were few in numbers, and they were blessed with only a little of this world's goods ; their incomes were small, scarcely enough for the support of their families, yet, their faith prompted them to make 58 Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection generous contributions for God's cause. They were surrounded by neighbors who were imbued with the spirit of know-nothingism, who hated every person and thing Catholic, and whose chief study was to oppose the advancement of God's church. Though numerically few, the Catholics were strong in their faith and they defied opposition. Both priests and people were emigrants from Ireland, and theirs and their ancestors' faith had been tested by centuries of persecution, as gold is tried in the crucible. The greater the opposition they encountered, the more valiant defenders did they become of God's church. The examples of their ancestors in the faith, incited them to heroic deeds. They knew the opposition which the Apostles and the other early Christians had to endure ; they knew what their co-religionists had to suffer in the green Isle, and they knew that long before their advent here, the Catholic missionaries under greater difficulties, had preached the gospel of Christ to the red men on the banks of the Genesee. The God that had helped the ones whose heroic examples they recalled, they had reason to believe, would come to their assistance, as the cause which they defended was the same. Trusting then in Divine assistance the Rev. John Kitzpatrick, with the co-operation of the few Catholics living in the south-western portion of Rochester, organized the Immaculate Conception congregation in April, 1849. Father Kitzpatrick was born in Queens County, Ireland, in 1824, and his philosophical and theological studies were made at Carlow College in that country. The young levite possessed true missionary zeal, and when Bishop Timon appealed to the students of the green Isle for co-laborers here in the Lord's vineyard, the young Fitzpatrick, yielding to his own wish and the advice of his relative, Bishop Canfeld of Kildare, proffered his services to the bishop of Buffalo. 59 Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Timon in Buffalo, on October 15, 1848. In the same year in which the congregation was organized, a site was purchased and a small brick church was erected, the ground and the building costing about $4,500. Father Fitzpatrick's heart was centered in his work, and he labored indefatigably for the spiritual and temporal welfare of his flock.
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