Historical Sketches a Retrospect of Fifty Years of St. Louis Church

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Excerpt from Historical Sketches a Retrospect of Fifty Years of St. Louis Church: With Preliminary Chapters on the Early Days of Webster and Dudley The object of this work is to place in the hands of our people the record of the first fifty years of their Church's life. As a fitting and interesting introduction to the story of the work of St. Louis', we have devoted the first two chapters of the "Sketches" to the history of the locality which has been the scene of her activity. The first chapter deals with the aborigines, the ancient Nipmucks, and tells of their character, mode of life and the events which led practically to their extermination. It is worthy of note that the original parish of St. Louis', extending from Palmer eastward to Worcester, and from Barre and Spencer on the north and southerly into Connecticut - thus covering the southern central part of the state - embraced by far the greater part of the Nipmuck country. The second chapter tells of the passing of the land of the Nipmucks into the hands of the colonists, and the settlement of our section of the Nipmuck country. The work then takes up the appearance of Catholics on the scene, and their efforts to establish a parish - efforts which were at last crowned with success. The origin of the parish and its growth under the three pastors it has known during the fifty years of its existence are then given. This portion of the work contains life sketches and pictures of the priests who labored here before the establishment of the parish, of the three pastors of St. Louis', and of all the assistants who have ever been located here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.