Excerpt from Chronicle and Sketch of the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Baltimore, 1856-1906

On the occasion of a historic anniversary in 1883, Father William F. Clarke, in a sermon in St. Ignatius' Church, Baltimore, said: From 1829 to 1849 the Jesuit was unseen in Baltimore save as a pilgrim, and might well exclaim with holy Job, 'they that knew me have for gotten me, they that dwelt in my house have considered me as a He had already spoken Of the antecedents of the Society of Jesus in Maryland, from Father Andrew White and two other Jesuits who landed from the Dove and the Ark, down to the middle of the eighteenth century when Baltimore, a mere village, was visited by a Jesuit priest from White Marsh, Prince George's County. He had spoken Of Father Charles Sewal], who was stationed here in 1784, of the first two bishops of this See, John Carroll and Leonard Neale Of Father Enoch F enwick, Rector of Old St. Peter's, the then cathedral, from 1808 to 1820 - all of whom were Jesuits. Father Clarke himself had come here in 1849 as Pastor Of Old St. Joseph's Church, near Camden Station.

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