FROM THE ARCHIVES: [November 5, 2014] GETTING TO KNOW: William Murrin, Our First Benefactor – Once or twice a year there might be an opportunity to make a long journey by wagon to a distant place where a missionary priest from Pittsburgh was due to come to someone’s home. The priest would stay a day or two at each place providing spiritual care for all who had gathered. In addition to offering Mass, he would give religious instructions, hear confessions, baptize and preside over marriages. Very likely William Murrin received his First Communion as he entered his adolescent years in a setting such as this.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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