THE APOSTLE OF YOUTH
carrying on the labors of the ministry in different parts of the United States who made their studies either in Troy or Hawthorne with the Sons of Don Bosco.
In 1909 the Salesians opened a new parish church, St. Anthony, in the city of Paterson, N. J.; here the Salesian Sisters are also established. In 1912 the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary at Port Chester, N. Y., was intrusted to the Fathers, their congregation consisting mainly of Italians and Poles. On their arrival they found that one hundred and seventy-eight Italian families were separated from the church by a half-hour's distance, and few adults or children remained practical Catholics. The Methodists, discerning their advantage, had rented a house and were carrying on a propaganda with success among the children. The Fathers, after much thought and counsel with zealous members of the congregation, proposed the erection of a chapel, to be built in the midst of the half-hour-away colony. The pious thought soon became a beautiful little stone reality at a cost of five thousand dollars; and now the little edifice is overcrowded every Sunday with a fervent congregation, while the Methodist rooms bear a familiar sign: "To Let."
At the desire of the zealous Archbishop Prendergast of Philadelphia, the Salesian Fathers opened a "Don Bosco Institute" in that city on August 15th, 1914. This house, composed of three brick buildings of three stories each, was former-
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