Catholicity and Its Growth in Worcester (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Catholicity and Its Growth in WorcesterCatholic lawyers and doctors are numerous, exercising a commanding in¿uence in the community. Catholics are equally numerous as instructors of youth, and are numbered in every branch of business, while many places of honor and large responsibility are creditably filled by them. They have their own savings bank, they direct one of the best hospitals in the city, whose worth is so well recognized that Protestants in. Large numbers seek treatment there, and the Catholic Col lege of Holy Cross gives added fame to Worcester. In a word, the Catholic pioneer of sixty or fifty or even less years ago could not have dreamed that his efforts and those of the other Irish emigrants in nvorcester were to bear such ample fruit. Catholic citizens of to-day owe their present acknowl edged standing to three conditions: the sacrifices made by their fathers, not as a rule educated men, but possessed of that honest pride which is an inherent instinct of the race, the opportunities for advanced education afforded by a Catholic college situated at their door, and finally and of greater weight in making the Irish Catholics good citi zens and good men, a devoted priest hood, composed with few exceptions of men whose lives have been ideal, who have carefully watched over and guided their ¿ocks and who as a rule have held the confidence and respect of Protestants and Catholics alike.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.