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said the Mass was Juan Perez, friend

and counsellor of Columbus. As

uardian, or superior, of the monas

tery of La Rabida, Spain, Father

Perez had encouraged the discoverer,

and by interceding for him at court

made possible the first journey of

discovery. On the second journey the

priest accompanied his now famous

and powerful friend. They landed on

the Island of Hispaniola, or Haiti.

At Point Conception, we are told

by the Franciscan, Father Zephyrin

Engelhardt, in the introductory pages

of his great history of the "Missions

and Missionaries of California," the

fourth volume of which has just been

published by the .Tames H. Barry

Company, San Francisco, that Father

Perez built of boughs and thatched

with straw the first chapel in the

New World, and "there on the feast

of the Immaculate Conception, Decern

ber 8, offered up the first Holy Sacri

flee of the Mass, and in the r.ame of

Jesus Christ blessed the land in whose

discovery he had taken to conspicuous

a part."

Haiti is today a Negro republic, and

is nominally Catholic. The Indians

have long since disappeared. The lat

ter were destroyed by the Spanish

settlers who, despite the protests of

the missionaries, exploited the abori

gines for the labor which the Indians

were physically unfit and the white

men themselves too lazy and too

proud to perform. In 1516 Negro

slaves were introduced, the first in

America, in order to solve the labor

problem here. The solution was the

ready acclimatization and increase of

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the blacks, their gradually more suc

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Catholic bulletin. (1916). St. Paul, Minn., 1916-02-12. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90060976/1916-02-12/ed-1/?sp=5

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Catholic bulletin, 1916-02-12.