BLACK CATHOLICS, WM. GROSS, SAVANNAH, CHURCH, MISSIONS,1874

Scope and Contents 7/8,1873, Gross preached in "time-honored old Capitol", Savannah, in senate chamber, introduced by mayor. In Americus, Free-masons loaned him use of large hall; Protestants well disposed; not 12 secular priests and no religious houses; splendid laborers waste their time "on miserable Yankees who are never converted." 7/24, everywhere Catholics are lost to the faith; wants ocd monastery of priests. 1/28/1874, trying to build Catholic College of Georgia; and new cathedral; fair by women; his...