Show COLON in boston though the catholic norseman norsemen Nor semen bad visited maine in the tenth cen tu and djono island and mount dg ert bad their christian altars and jesuits and franciscans had labored irth the indiana many centuries later yet at the be of this cent cathell c aywas all but NY lien the first catholic tion was organized there were but 43 catholics in probably not as many more in he rest of the state they were poor aswell as few and wore it not for such survivals f an evil time as kellaway Kell way dorchester etc in would be hard for us now to realize how their I 1 a mis known and bated it WAS 1 n blaine that the know nothing craze culminated in 1834 in the autra e spir father bapst catholic C ar c h wrecking wasa favorite diversion of the know nothing mob and in 1855 bishop bacon was obliged to abandon a proposed corner itono stono laying in bath yet to ay in the diocese of portland which includes tho whole state catholics number out of a tolaf population of about they have 62 and 8 chapela religious teachers 4 and I 1 pa hial schools with bear 4 0 1 u pils the missions have 1 en revived ie and the indians num or j bere iere are three schools t air children the in ilan inis are very dear to bisho ile dy as they were to fits venerate predecessor one marvel at this prodigious growth under conditions solon gad verse but for remembering the proverbial fruitfulness of martvig blood a na the scene of the old mission arc at norridgewock in 2724 where the jesuit father ralo and thirty call 10 AI lie indians of his flock gave their lives for the falth |