Saturday, September 5, 2015

First Communion at Our Lady of Perpetual Help (St. Mary's) - 1898


"FIRST COMMUNION

List of the Class Which Will be Enrolled at St. Marys.

The following children of the parochial schools of Our Lady of Perpetual Help church have passed their examinations in the catechism under their pastor,
 R. V. M. P. Kinkead, and last Sunday received their first Holy Communion. 

It is a solemn and beautiful spectacle when half a hundred young people in one body, thus take a stand for God and are numbered among his earthly children. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, so lately decorated and re-opened to the public, was filled last Sunday with her church members and Protestant friends of the large class, to witness these solemn, beautiful, first communion services in the new church.

 Boys:
Harry Adams, Ralph W. Baker, John H. Beatty, Alvin G. Blanchard, Wm. P. Bohannon, Lawrence A. Boon, Ralph W. Brady, Joseph A. Brown, Frank J. Cantlon, Stephen P. Deveaux, Charles Dupont, Joseph H. Eckert, Ambrose Gase, Thomas E. Gorman, Victor J. Haller, Joseph Imber, Alonzo Imber, Hector D. Maranda, Wm. T. Nolan, Jeremiah Quinlan, John Rowe, Fred Wagner, Chas. E. Weigerding, Peter J. Weikinger, Carl A. Westrick, Wm. J. Wilhelm.

Girls:
Mary M. Becker, Anna Buhrn, Mary M. Cantlon, Winnie B. Daoust, Marie Mabel Evans, Irene M. Gallagher, Regina Gaffney, Harrietta Grant, Regina Grossell, Ellen Hoschak, Mary Hutter, Gertrude R. Kesselmyer, Clara Krotz, Jenny Krummell, Jenny McCann, Nellie C. Meek, Angela O. Norman, Grace O'Conner, Mary E. Riley, Margaret Sheets, Anna Shindler, Loretta St. Amant, Sophia St. Amant, Annetta E. Steinberger, Agnes M. Wahl. 

Defiance Democrat - May 19, 1898 

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