Excerpt from A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Its People, Vol. 2The Roman Catholic church had its first mission in what is now Delaware county, about 1730, in Concord township, at the home of the Wilcox family, the congregation later building St. Thomas' Church. The followers of this religion have become more numerous in past years, and one Of the county's large educational institutions, Villanova College, was founded by the Catholic church.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.