Cloak of Pride (verse)
Sampson, Harriet
526 THE COMMONWEAL October 6, 1926 session of fertile lands and favorable location actuated the boys who attended...
...But Saint Xavier's is to itself severely felt in Maryland...
...and therefore politically dangerous...
...Hence the unob- have a resurrection...
...It is to be opened as a place of pilgrimAt all the Jesuit foundations in Maryland, the age at least once in the year with solemn Mass offered fathers lived in the character of private planters and again from its high altar...
...The reaction of all this made the state line in Delaware...
...This "very considerable popish seminary," gave his name simply as Thomas Mansell, a precau- as another clergyman styled it, was therefore early tion doubly necessary since Jesuits were universally suppressed, but not before its good work had prosupposed to be adherents of the exiled House of Stuart foundly influenced the province...
...It was not until write: "I shall have at Bohemia a fair plantation after the Revolution, when "Jackie" Carroll, (as he to manage, the best that we have, and nigh to Phila- was called when a student at Bohemia) was first Archdelphia, which is of vast advantage...
...But the greatest work of the Jesuit fathers in Maryland, indeed the work that is the crowning glory of Oh, give me back my cloak untom, Catholics in pre-Revolutionary America and which was My opalescent sin of pride, in the minds of the missionaries from the beginning, Before my heart is quite forlorn, was the opening of an academy at Bohemia Manor...
...the latter, was a great boon to Catholics...
...Thus when Father Mosley est university instruction, they thought now only of was made superior of Bohemia in 1764, he could providing for immediate necessities...
...In this way, its missionary Maryland had no echo in the province founded by the activity will continue down the ages with ever-increasQuakers, for though ample proof exists that William ing volume and power...
...This school was classical and commercial...
...The wind of truth became so stinging My feet are now too numb for play, Joseph in the Quaker City...
...When he came there in 1704 it was as a legal measures might be taken to bring their activities private individual and in all his legal transactions he to an end...
...Not, indeed, as a parish church, trusiveness with which the work of the missions pro- but as a monument of past heroic effort and splendid ceeded...
...It fitted HARRIET SAMPSON...
...Nevertheless, England, the Catholic government of Maryland was it did not escape the attention of certain Protestant overturned and Lord Baltimore forced to accept a divines whose zeal led them to make a close scrutiny of Protestant governor appointed by the king...
...Catho- all that went on at the missions...
...One even went so lics, therefore, became a proscribed and persecuted far as to write a lengthy epistle to the king, complainpeople in their own province...
...From the first, the hearts of the mis- life in the colony, and on the other, where the parents sionaries were turned toward the provinces to the could afford the cost, prepared them to enter the Jesuit northward, where a scattered Catholic population was University of Saint Omer's in Flanders...
...ing bitterly of Jesuit successes which he attributed to Father Mansell was the founder of the mission at their cunning and genius for intrigue, praying that Bohemia...
...infinite calm, its dignity, its supreme historic imporFortunate it was for the Catholics in the new world tance cannot fail to touch the heart of everyone who that the persecution which raged against them in comes beneath its spell...
...Its deep and quiet culture, its Annapolis...
...achievement...
...Penn had no special good will toward Catholics, still he did not at any time permit discrimination against them...
...indeed, the long-drawn out boundary dispute &loa& of Pride between the descendants of the founders of Mary- I had a darling little sin, land and Pennsylvania, ending as it did in victory for A woolen cloak of rainbow dye...
...inces and Philadelphia definitely recognized as belonging to Pennsylvania than Father Greeton set out from After you tore my sin away Bohemia Manor to start the Jesuit chapel of old St...
...This was in 1733...
...No sooner I was content and warm within, was the line officially drawn separating the two prov- And sang as I went by...
...The spiritual needs of those who remain again in England the burning question of a possible are being cared for in Middletown, which is just across Catholic succession...
...When visited, as it must had each a chapel attached to his house much as in be, in a spirit of profound recollection, Bohemia can the case of the Catholic family of the Carrolls at never be forgotten...
...in the defeat of the loyal forces of James II and the The school did its work quietly, and the records establishing of William and Mary on the throne of regarding it are meagre in the extreme...
...Or melody has died...
...My lips too cold for singing...
...From Bohemia Manor the way all the missionaries were competent to give the highwas comparatively easy...
...Although already established...
...526 THE COMMONWEAL October 6, 1926 session of fertile lands and favorable location actuated the boys who attended it, on one hand for successful the fathers...
...Moreover at Today Saint Francis Xavier's is closed, the majority this period, the untimely death of all Queen Anne's of the Catholic population having moved to a differseventeen children and her own approaching end raised ent centre...
...bishop of Baltimore, that Georgetown University was After the political revolution of 1687 which ended established...
Vol. 4 • October 1926 • No. 22
