History of the Catholic church in California (1872) (14760123206)

Identifier: historyofcatholi00glee (find matches)
Title: History of the Catholic church in California
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Gleeson, W. (William), 1822-1903
Subjects: Catholic Church Jesuits Franciscans Missions
Publisher: San Francisco, Printed for the author by A. L. Bancroft, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ey at-tempt to advance any further and to destroy thiscreation of God. Their shafts of ridicule, calumnyand false reasoning fell powerless against the im-penetrable buckler of Catholic truth. More in-vulnerable than the Trojan Achilles, the CatholicChurch stood forth unscathed in the midst of hernumerous foes, and opening their eyes to this nota-ble fact, the philosophers and infidels of the timemust have acknowledged to themselves, if aughtof sincerity remained in their hearts, that a Churchwhich could afford to dispense, at a critical mo-ment, with twenty-two thousand of its ablest de-fenders, and yet suffer no loss, must, indeed, bemore than the creation of man—must be divine.At the end of the volume will be found an ac- 446 HISTORY OF THE count of the sufferings of the Fathers during thelong years of their imprisonment from 1762 to1777 by the authority of the Portuguese crown.They have no parallel but in the sufferings of theprimitive Christians under the Pagaii Emperors ofRome.
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HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CALIFORNIA. BY W.- GLEESOir, M.A., PKOFESSOE, ST. MARXS COLLEGE, SAN FEANCISOO, OAL. IN TWO VOLUMES. ILLUSTEATED.VOL. II. SAN FKANCISCO:A. L. BANCKOFT AND COMPANY,1871. CHAPTEE I. Abei-val, of the Feanciscans—Sketch of Fathee Junipeeo—His fiestMission—Peoject of Chaeles III. foe foeming IndependentKingdoms out of the Ameeican Viceeoyalties—CommencementOF THE Missions in Uppee Califoenia—Establishment of theMissions of San Diego—Lettee of Fathee Junipeeo—Explana-tion OF the teems Peesidio, Pueblo and Mission. We have seen, in the previous vohime, how theJesuit Fathers were expelled from Lower Californiaby orders of Charles III. The property they hadacquired, and which consisted of extensive landsand herds, passed into the hands of the govern-ment, to be used for the advantage of their suc-cessors. For themselves they were permitted toretain only the most necessary articles. The samedevoted, apostolic spirit that animated these, thefirst m