Are you a Jesuit or a Quaker? (punch!)
Terrance Flaherty
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 15 16:49:43 CST 2002
Although Philadelphia's founder and first proprietor, the Quaker William
Penn, had granted religious liberty to all in 1682, there was much
hostility against Catholics in the Quaker City when Father Greaton
arrived. Realizing this animosity and wanting to take no chances with
potential enemies, Greaton arranged for a barber named John Dixon to buy
the Willing's Alley property and the next day purchased it in his own
name from Dixon. Before setting off to sign the deed, the cautious
Greaton donned a broad-brimmed Quaker hat and "snuff-colored coat" in
order not to draw attention to himself or to his plans to establish
Philadelphia's first Catholic parish.
http://www.sju.edu/sesquicentennial/moments.htm
http://oufcnt5.open.ac.uk/~gill_stoker/religion.htm
PS thanks for the images of Trinity. I'm glad the old Greek O church
there still stand too. Is it St. Peter's? Anyway, glad it's still there.
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