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New Zealand Tablet, 28 December 1916, Page 53

In the first week of October the Franciscan Fathers, New York, celebrated the golden jubilee of the establishment of their Order in New York. The Franciscans went to that city in 1866 in response to the late Cardinal McCloskey’s call for priests to work’among the Italian immigrants, then beginning to arrive in large numbers. ■' They founded St, Anthony’s, the oldest Italian church in New York, and their monastery in Thompson street is now the mother-house of branches in other parts of the city and in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Utah, and Massachusetts. Father Ferdinand 1 arri, head of the Order in New York, received a letter from Rome conveying a blessing from Pope Benedict.