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The Roman Catholic Church in Medford. by Louise F. Hunt.
[Read before the Medford Historical Society, November 18, 1912.]
I was asked by the Medford Historical Society to write this sketch, as our church in Medford is not recorded in their archives.
I found the task of giving a correct statement hedged about with many difficulties, owing to the fact that in the earlier times but few records were kept, and the men and women who began the movement sixty-three years ago have passed away, but I have tried my best.
It will not be unprofitable to compare the numerical strength of the Catholics in the diocese at the time of the establishment of this parish with that at the present time.
In 1856 the number of priests laboring in the diocese of Boston was sixty-five, forty-eight in the territory now included in said diocese, and seventeen in what are now the dioceses of Springfield and Fall River.
There are now over six hundred priests laboring in this diocese, and four hundred a