t,'eanc.o VOL. 44, NO.17 • Friday, April 28, 2000
FALL RIVER, MASS.
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EASTER SUNDAY - Pastor Father Stephen B. Salvador greets Victor and Jennifer Raposo and their two daughters Mandy, age four and Taylor, age . three, following Easter Mass at Holy Ghost Parish, Attleboro. (AnchodG'ordon photo)
May Jubilee Mass at St. Anthony's Editor's Note: This is the third in migrants from Portugal and the Azores a to-part series on the pilgrimage . began to settle in Taunton and the surchurches in the Fall River diocese. rounding area, lured by the prospects They appear once a month in The of work and living near friends and Anchor to assist diocesan Catholics dose relatives who had previously ari~ making th~ir pilgri~g-:sto these rived in the region. . s~tes. Accordmg .to guidelInes pUb-, Initially, these new immigrimts worhshed by the diocese, th~se who shipped at the existing English-speaktravel to any of the. d~slgnated ing churches, but then, by 1900, more c~~rches and ~lfill the slmpl~ con- than 3,000 Portuguese had established dltlons of the mdulgences, will re- their home in Taunton and the need ceive for themselves, ~r for a soul in for a parish to addr~ss the needs of Purgatory, the same mdulgence as Portuguese-speaking Catholics was if they had traveled to ~ome or the recognized. ' With this in mind, John deRose Of Holy Land for the Jubilee Year. Dighton purchased the Perkins Estate By JAMES N. DUNBAR on Weir Street in Taunton in 1902. The TAUNTON - If any parish were following year he transferred title to to reflect the industriousness and faith the property to Bishop Matthew of its founding parish'ioners, St. Harkins of the Providence, R.I., dioAnthony's in Taunton would serve as cese, of which Bristol County in Mas. a model. sachusetts was a part. Father Alexander F. Louro was Just after the mid-19th century, im-
named pastor of all Portuguese Catholics in the Taunton Area, including Dighton, Raynham, Rehoboth and Seekonk. .The first pastor set about establishing the mansion on the Perkins Estate as his church, using the upper floor as living quarters and converting the first floor into a temporary chapel. But it was not long until the chapel became too small to accommodate the overflowing crowds that attended Mass ~. there each Sunday. Father ~ Louro then rented the Temperance Hall on Trescott Street and Father John Goulart Cardozo was appointed to assist the pastor. In 1904, the Diocese of Fall River was established and Bishop William Stang appointed Father Augusto 1.