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CATHOLIC LOCAL JISTORY. | 95
Sundays at the former and latter places, and ‘on week days
and certain festivals and odd Sundays at Oxford. Now Par-
adise and Oxford are attended by Father Richards, with
early Mass and High Mass alternating. ‘The Paradise church
is a fine stone building, with large yards and graveyard. The
church was built about 1843 or 4, by Mr. Kemp, contractor.
Messrs. Frederick Dellone, Peter Noel, J. J. Kuhn, and others
solicited subscriptions and aided in the work. Father Manns
attended about that time, or shortly after the church was
built. Mary Dellone (of Peter) had willed money for a bell,
which was procured, leaving considerable money over. Fath-
er Manns insisted that the money was left for a particular
purpose for which it should be used, so another bell was add-
ed and two-bells were placed on’ the church. Father
Besehter was pastor of Paradise several years and died there.
Fathers Dougherty and Cotting attended occasionally while
having charge of the Gettysburg church. | Father Stembacher
was a true friend to Paradise, and took great interest in the
congregation, and so did lather Deneckere after him, who
served from about 1860 to his death, when lather Archam-
bault sueceeded him. Fathers Sacchi and Villiger were
there for some time about 1850, and other priests from Con-
ewago, as-best suited the arrangements of the Superiors.
Father Deneckere. started a summer svhool there, taught by
Misses Shane, Fink and others, but the congregation is too
widely scattered to keep up a parochial school. Conewago
was the burying place of the Paradise church for many years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hair is said to have been the first person
buried at Paradise. As far as we know, no priests have
been born at Paradise, though Fabian and Michael Noel and
I. X. Brady, of Father Deneckere’s school, are now: novices
in the Society, and Jos. Strubinger died a Seminarian at
Frederick some years ago. A number of young girls have
become: Sisters. Catharine Dellone (Sister Ann), daughter
of Fred. Dellone, went to be a Sister Dec. 5th, 1849, at Em-
inettsburg, and died July 16th, 1851, at Cincinnati, where