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remained rector of St. Mary's in Hamilton, now the Cathedra1 Church,
though he was in *mi-retirement because of ill-health after 1862. Late
in life, the doughty old missionary cseayed ciucw~sfully n last major
voyage. In lulfillment of a long-eherishrd desire, he left Hamilton on
Ma y 29 1864, enroute to Rome to visit the Holy Father, Pius IX.Gn) He
died six years later in Hamilton, on October 20, 1870, at the age of 77.
The assistant prieat at St. Mary'fi Hamiltori, in 1856 wae the Rev.
Augugtine Carayon. A Freneh ecelesjastieal student recruited by Bishop
de Charbonne1 from the Seminary of Rodez, he had eome io Cauada
with the Bishop in 1850 as a suh-deaeon. While completing his theolo-
gical s~udies, presumably privately, he acted as de Charbonds secre-
tiiry. Upon ordination in 1851, Fr. Careyon was assigmed as Fr.
Gordon'e assistant in Hamilton. Here he remained ior soine ten years,
and he is credited wi~h being chiefly instrumental in ~he erection of
the two Catholic Separste Schaols in that city in 1855.56, Subeequently,
Fr. Carsyon was resident priest in Brantford, irom 1861 until 186% ln
the latter year ill-health warranted a leave of absence and a return to
his native Land. The lcave of abeence, however, becarne permanent.
Reeords indjcate that, alter a brief sojourn in Orient, his birthplace, Fr.
Carayon wrrs named pastor of the church of Notre Dame, in Millau,
Arières, and that he laboured there for more than twenty-five years.(2Bi
The other two major centres 01 Catholic activity in the new dioceae,
as exempljfied by the loeation of the clergy in 1856, were Guelph and
the Germsn Catholic aettkmenta of Waterloa CounLy, principally Wilmot
(St. aga th^) ~nrl St. Clernent'~.l~~) Thc wmmunity of Guelph was

(23) The True Wirnrm (Montwnl), lune 3, 1W.
(28) See Ceusse, op, tit., p. 72.
(57) Conienipormy uindiiions rnight leed one to think of threa nth~r rnmmuniti~e
io ihis mea as more imporiani than eiiher Wilmo~ or St. Clernent's: vu.
Preston, Galt and Kitrheuer. ln the aecond quarier of the 1Pih centuq,
howevet, thie wae 401 zhe case, at least not fmm the point of view of the
condiiion of Catholicisni in the district. Preston iike other conires in the
drPU hsd ben vieited by Fm. Wiriath, Shneider and Sander1 (cf. inJru, pp.
10-131, and a Fione churrh was erected in 1&10 iinder Fr. Schneider, althougb
it was otill unhished in 1842. The Jesuits served thie community and organ.
ized a Seperete Schml in 1848 or 1849, which however, did not Rourish long.
The town did mt teceive e resident priet untii the arrivai there 01 the Rer.
Jonas Lenhurt on March 25, 1905 (Spets op. cd., pp. 19, 1%).
GaIt is inenrioned as u missinn attended Irom Wilmot by Fr. HoIzer, SJ., in
1851; and if waa lik~ly vieilcd before thot ~imc by othcr Jcauit nii~~iunnriee
in the area. Fr. Holzer îried io encourage the Cathoüc msidents io build e
churcb nnd,,iri 1852, Fr. McNul~y, an Iriah pries[ attbched to the Diocese of
Toronto, visited Galt, and saw to the purehase 01 property for a ehurch site
(cf. supra, p. 2). Bishup FarreU dedicated a churrh there on Mey 4 1860,
hat Gdi ohiained a resident priest only with the ewing ol ~he Rev. Jere-
miah Ryan in July, 1876 (Speiz. OP. cit.. pp. lm 1155). This W& ~bb iame
Fr. Ryan who waci resident in Brantlord in 1856.
Berlin (Ki~chener) ody began to assume any promioence in Waterloo County
alter ir was cbasen as county weat in 1852. A Catholic chluch pmiecied iu
1854 wbs under constmction in 1855, and WU dedicated by Bishop FmeU in
1856, possilly the firat dedication conducted by Bishop Farrell in his new
dbceee (Spet~ op. cd., p. 98-91. The Rev. George LauIhuber, SJ., resi&d
in Berlin ironi 1857 to 1859, and hegmn a Separa~e !%hm1 in the village.
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