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| | Bishop Thomas F. Hendricken and the French Canadians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Bishop Francis P. Keough, D.D., elevated to archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. |
 | | In January, 1873, Bishop Hendricken acceded to the request of French Canadians in Arctic, a mill village in Warwick, for a priest and a parish of their own by sending Father Henry Spruyt, a Belgian priest of Flemish descent, to organize a parish dedicated to St. John the Baptist. |
 | | Bishop Hendricken would have preferred to send them a French-Canadian pastor rather than the Irish priests but he did not have one who had the ability to deal with the complicated financial situation Father Bedard had left behind, and who could be trusted not to continue the dubious administrative practices Father Bedard had instituted. |
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