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zoria and Velasco, Brazoria County; Live Oak Point, Refugio County; San Patricio and Corpus Christi, San Patricio County; Cuero and McHenry settlements, Victoria County; Brushy Creek Settlement, Lavaca County; Gonzales and Seguin, Gonzales County; Richmond, Fort Bend County; Spring Creek and Morgan's Point, Harris County; Liberty City, Liberty County; Nacogdoches and San Augustine in East Texas; and San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada in San Antonio. Ten priests-six Vincentians and four seculars-were now serving these churches and their Mass-stations. The Vincentians were John Brands, Bartholomew Rollando, Richard Hennesy, John Lynch, Eudald Estany, and Michael Calvo. The four seculars were Edward Clarke, Anthony Lienhart, James Miller, and James Fitzgerald. At the head of the brave phalanx of the Faith was the Bishop-Vicar. Five recruits were almost ready to take up their duties: Claude Dubuis and James Giraudon, who were learning English at the Barrens, and Louis Chambodut, Matthew Chazelle, and Anthony Chanrion. Within a year or so the young seminarians brought from France would finish their studies: Emmanuel Domenech, Charles Padey, and Joseph Anstaett. Odin was able to state also that the plans for the Ursuline Academy in Galveston were completed and that the long desired institution would soon be blessed. Five professed Sisters and three novices were already in New Orleans to found the new house in Texas. Fathers Clarke and Miller had schools for boys in Brown's Settlement and Brazoria, re- spectively. That great progress had been made during the first six years of trials and tribulations there could be no doubt. Texas, now a state of the Union, was ready to be elevated to the status of a diocese. Odin and his clergy were ready for complete autonomy. A comparison of the status of the Church in Texas with the others listed in Tlie Catliolic Almanac for 1847 shows that Texas was more advanced than the dioceses of Hartford, Richmond, Nashville, Dubuque, Little Rock, Natchez, and the Archdiocese of Oregon City.~ 0
90 Tlte Catholic Almanac, 1847. See comparative chart, 19of.
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