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IMPORTANT: Please read READ ME and INTRODUCTION for overview of TIMELINE, INDEX, and SOURCES CITED. Entries are direct quotes from SOURCES CITED including ERRORS found in the originals. Please review all *NOTES following each entry for ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS, CORROBORATIONS and/or CONFLICTING DATA. Individuals and Events that Form the History of All Souls Roman Catholic Parish, Sanford, Florida Sources cited: See bound Color Coding: BLUE – Bishop MEDIUM PURPLE – Pastor LIGHT PURPLE – Other Priests ORANGE – Church PINK – School GREEN - Cemetery # YEAR KEYWORD TOPIC / EVENT SOURCE 1 1882 Priests Priest timeline listing all priests found to date mentioned in Florida Catholic, The Bulletin of the Catholic Source 1.1 to Timeline Laymen’s Association of Georgia, Diocesan information from Savannah, St. Augustine, and Orlando, who Present have served at All Souls, including a photo, when available. 2 1877 Bishop John 1. Bishop Moore, a native of Ireland, came to the United States as a youth and 1. “Diocese of Saint Augustine is to Moore located in Charleston, S. C. and he entered the seminary there. He was sent to rich in historic tradition: Six Bishops 1901 France and Italy to complete his studies for the Priesthood. He was ordained in served See of St. Augustine since Rome in 1860, served in Charleston, and was consecrated second Bishop of St. 1870 erection,” Florida Catholic, Augustine May 13, 1877, in Charleston. He died on July 30, 1901. May 2, 1947, p. 6. Source 47.1 2. When [John Moore] became Bishop of St. Augustine in 1877, there were only 13 SEE ALSO Source 49.12.2 priests in the diocese. He introduced Jesuits and Benedictines to Florida parishes and brought in Irish priests to staff the missions. His work opened up the Church in 2. “Seven prelates served diocese central Florida with purchases of land for parishes in Sanford and Orlando. During from St. Augustine,” Florida his administration, he lost three priests to yellow fever in Tampa, including Catholic, May 25, 1990, Jane Quinn, Orlando’s first appointed pastor, Father Swemburgh [sic] who had come in 1885. When the cathedral in p. 15A. Source 47.4.1 St. Augustine was gutted by fire, he not only was successful in getting aid from businessmen, but also went on a begging tour in the North for financial aid to rebuild. 3 1880 Mission in Local Enterprise historian, Post Master Riley Nutt responded: “there was a building in Enterprise built Email from Amber Patterson, circa Enterprise around 1880 used by a Catholic group - more like a Chapel - [that] served the Catholic visitors to the DeBary Hall, March 3, 2014, in Brock House Hotel…. They shared a Pastor with another small church of similar size in Sanford…. The response to question about church disbanded around 1910…. The building itself was converted to a house and remains standing possible mission in Enterprise. today at the south west corner of Clark and Pine Street in Enterprise.” Source 49.16 4 1881 Right Rev. 1. The year 1881 was a spiritual and historical watermark for Central 1. St. James Community Celebrates July 5 John Moore Florida as Bishop Moore, between May and November, acquired land Its First One Hundred Years, 1885- Bishop of St. as future sites for the region’s first three Catholic churches. The third 1985, 1985, p. 10. Source 28.1.1 Augustine acquisition was consummated in *Sanford…. 2. Account book of General Henry 1881 *NOTE: The property purchased in 1881 is not where the church was Shelton Sanford of Florida Land & Nov 3 Henry built. (SEE description and map for property purchased in 1881.) The Colonization Company, p. 207, Shelton church property was purchased April 26, 1887 for $2600 dollars. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/ Sanford (SEE Source 6.1, Source 6.2, Source 6.3) accessed 1/21/14 Source 3.1.1 2-3. The contract for property purchased for $700 in 1881 is found in Henry 3. Image of parcel described in Sanford’s account book: Contract dated July 5, 1881. Florida Land and Col. Account book of General Henry Co. Ltd. to Right Rev. John Moore, Catholic Bishop of St. Augustine. Beginning Shelton Sanford and maps.google at the South west point of intersection of 5th St and Elm Avenue and running .com, online, accessed 12/10/13. thence South 264 feet to the corner of 6th Street and Elm Avenue, thence Source 3.1.2 west 248 feet to the corner of 6th St and Laurel Avenue, thence North along 4. Indenture between Florida Land Laurel Avenue 155 feet to the right of way of the South Florida Railroad 1 IMPORTANT: Please read READ ME and INTRODUCTION for overview of TIMELINE, INDEX, and SOURCES CITED. Entries are direct quotes from SOURCES CITED including ERRORS found in the originals. Please review all *NOTES following each entry for ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS, CORROBORATIONS and/or CONFLICTING DATA. Individuals and Events that Form the History of All Souls Roman Catholic Parish, Sanford, Florida Sources cited: See bound Color Coding: BLUE – Bishop MEDIUM PURPLE – Pastor LIGHT PURPLE – Other Priests ORANGE – Church PINK – School GREEN - Cemetery # YEAR KEYWORD TOPIC / EVENT SOURCE Company thence N 44 degrees lat 55 degrees long E, 153 7/10 feet along said right of way to 5th St thence 139 6/10 and Colonization Co. and Rt. Rev. feet along 5th St to place of beginning. John Moore Bishop of St. Augustine, 4. Excerpts from indenture dated November 3, 1881, recorded March 17, 1882, Book W, p. 587, Orange Orange County Comptroller online, County Circuit Court.… [I]n consideration of the sum of Seven Hundred Dollars lawful money … [Florida accessed 1/21/14, http://or.occo mpt.com Source 3.2 Land and Colonization Co.] have granted bargained, sold … unto the said party of the second part … all that certain lot or tract of land … described as follows … NOTE: Source 28.1.10 indicates this Bishop Beginning at the *South West Point of intersection of Fifth Street and Elm Avenue and running thence parcel purchased for first church, William South 264 feet to the corner of Sixth Street and Elm Avenue thence west along 6th St to the corner of 6th however, parcel for church at 8th Kenney St and Laurel Avenue, 248 feet thence North along Laurel Avenue 155 feet to the right of way of the and Oak purchased April 1887. South Florida Rail Road Company thence north 44˚ 55’ East 153 7/10 feet along said right of way to Fifth 5. Indenture between Bishop Mrs. Frances Street thence 139 6/10 feet East along Fifth Street to place of beginning being Block 7 Tier 7 of E. R. J. Mahoney Kenney and Mrs. Frances J. Trafford’s plat of Sanford Florida... Mahoney, p. 219, Orange County *NOTE: Reading property description, begin at corner indicated by red arrow. Comptroller online database, 5. Indenture dated June 13, 1908, between Rt. Rev. William J. Kenney, Bishop of St. Augustine and Mrs. accessed 11/19/2014, http://or.oc Frances J. Mahoney of Sanford, Florida for the property purchased by Bishop Moore in 1881: “Saving compt.com Source 3.3 and excepting the right of way formerly deeded by Rt. Rev. John Moore to the South Fla. Railroad NOTE: This is the family of Ellen Company through said property. This block seven having been deeded to the Rt. Rev. John Moore by Mahoney whose descendent Alice deed dated the 3rd day of November 1881 by The Florida Land and Colonization Company of London Fitts Teslo donated items to the England.” Diocese of Orlando Archive. 5 1882 Father 1. The early history of all Souls Parish began when Father Michael McFaul of St. Louis, Missouri, came to 1. “All Souls Church, Sanford,” to Michael Maitland in 1882. He was pastor there of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary until Catholic Parishes of Florida 1885 McFaul 1886, and Sanford was one of his many missions. It is presumed that he offered Mass in *Doyle’s Hall, Histories, Michael V. Gannon, 1965, or although it is not certain. *NOTE: SEE Sources 2.6, 2.7, and 2.9 for documentation. pp. 101-102. Source 114.1.2 1886 Church of the 2. Father McFaul became pastor of the immense parish which included most of central Florida … Father 2. “Early History of Pioneer Parishes Nativity of McFaul began a baptismal registry on January 11, 1882; he made regular visits to Catholic families in in the Diocese of Orlando. Holy the Blessed Enterprise, Daytona Beach, New Smyrna, Oak Hill, Oakland, Sanford, and Orlando. His pastorate marks Nativity, Maitland,” Florida Virgin Mary the formal establishment of the Catholic Church in central Florida. Catholic, June 21, 1968, pp. 7B, 11B. Source 49.7.1, 3. 3. James M. Wilcox … built the church in Maitland … as well as the two-story rectory for Father Michael McFaul.… Father McFaul performed his first baptism Jan. 11, 1882, in the new church and looked after 3. “Church history dates back to Doyle’s Hall the Catholic families in such scattered settlements and towns as Daytona, New Smyrna, Enterprise, 1881,” Florida Catholic, Bret Gray, Osceola and Orlando. Orange County, renamed from Mosquito County in 1845 when the county seat Oct. 31, 1969, p. 3. moved from Enterprise to Orlando … included what is now Lake, Osceola, Seminole counties. Source 49.8 4. The marriage register provides the earliest record of Catholic life in the Jan. 11, 1882 marriage of 4. “St. James preserves history George MacKenzie and Lucy Brennan by Father Michael McFaul, who was residing then in Maitland… records,” Florida Catholic, Nov.