Bayley's final examinations lasted twenty hours, distributed as follows as recorded by Bayley in a notebook: four hours devoted to the classics—Livy, Cicero, Homer, Tacitus, Juvenal; seven to mathematics and natural science, including navigation, surveying, conic sections, mechanics, chemistry, astronomy, and optics; three to moral and intellectual philosophy and political economy; four to belles-lettres and rhetoric; and one each to jurisprudence (James Kent's Commentaries on American Law) and to Christian evidences (William Paley's).

"[13] He spent several happy, profitable years there studying under an eminent clergyman who was an authority on ecclesiastical history and antiquities, and allowed his students free access to his personal library of 10,000 volumes.

In 1842, Bayley wrote to his Washington College classmate and friend John Williams concerning Jarvis' influence upon him, "when he saw the bias of my mind he used all his endeavors to turn it, from what he believed to be dangerous error, and I am convinced, that it was with a sincere and lively sorrow that he found his arguments, and I may say entreaties were likely to prove useless...

But if I be asked whether the principles which I learned under his roof, and I may say general instruction, inclined me to join the Church in communion with Rome, I ... positively answer, Yes—I ... assert, that high-Churchmanship led me to Rome, as it has led and is likely to lead many others—It was the respect for Antiquity, and the testimony of the Fathers, which I learned in the course of instruction recommended by him that first inclined me to seek and at last enabled me to find a refuge from doubt and uncertainty, in the fixed, unalterable Catholic, or if you will, Roman or Papal faith".

However, he must have temporarily allayed such doubts as proceeding from an immature mind, which, as compared with the ripe and seasoned scholarship of such as Dr. Jarvis, could not be depended upon to pass judgment on such an important matter.

After Mr. Hart's continued illness forced him to resign the following September as rector of St. Andrew's, Harlem, an entry in the parish register recorded that on October 19, 1840, "the Rev.

It was on one of these visits that he met Father Michael Curran, the pastor of St. Paul's, Harlem, who later stated that "he had helped into the Church his neighbor, the Protestant rector of St. Andrew's, the Rev.

"[18][19] Another Catholic priest whom he met was the pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Father John McCloskey (later Archbishop of New York and the first American cardinal), who was four years Bayley's senior.

During his two weeks in Paris, Roosevelt Bayley visited all the usual places of interest, including the tomb of Abelard and Héloïse at Père Lachaise Cemetery, the Hôtel de Sully, "the truly noble galleries of the Louvre," and "the Chh.

From Marseilles he sailed to Genoa, and finding two Americans from New York State among the passengers, a Mr. Gale and Mr. Robinson, he visited palaces in their company, as well as many of the churches, in which Bayley noticed that "the number of people at their devotions was very great and apparently fervent and serious."

On his way back to the hotel, he stopped at the English cemetery and located the grave of her father, William Magee Seton, noting that the tomb was "in a good state of preservation and the sides whh.

The Sunday before, he and the young English curate had spent the time between morning and evening services "in wandering thro' the shady part of the Terra Reale engaged in converse on Theology, Catholic claims, etc."

The Sunday following he went in the afternoon to hear Dr. Baggs preach at "St. Maria," and the next day he took his letter of introduction to Dr. Paul Cullen, who received him kindly and helped him to find private lodgings in the city.

[28] Bayley missed few, if any of the places of interest in Rome, visiting St. Peter's Basilica, Sant'Agnese fuori le mura, the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, and other Roman churches, as well as the Etruscan and Egyptian galleries in the Vatican Museums and "the noble and magnificent Bibliotheca," and recording his reactions in his journal.

On March 10, he visited the English College and met Dr. Baggs, who gave him a letter of introduction to a converted Episcopal clergyman from Boston, Massachusetts, George L. Haskins, who became a lifelong friend.

William Henry Elder of Baltimore, on his way to study at the Propaganda in Rome, visited and had a conversation with Bayley in which he told him "many things of the Convent of St. Joseph's" founded by Mother Seton at Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Bayley spent the greater part of two weeks seeing the sights of London such as Westminster Abbey and Windsor Castle, during which he paid several visits to the offices of The Tablet and to its editor, Frederick Lucas.

Together they visited Nicholas Wiseman at Oscott College, and Bayley met several of those who had converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism under the influence of the Oxford movement, whose names he did not record.

While Hughes left for America, Bayley remained to make a tour of Scotland and Ireland, where he heard Daniel O'Connell speak several times in Dublin.

In a third codicil dated March 8, 1844, six days after Bayley's ordination, Roosevelt stated that "as I deem it neither just nor right that any part of the property should be instrumental in building up a faith which I think erroneous and unholy," he disinherited his grandson, bequeathing his one-tenth share of the estate to the Union Theological Seminary instead.

In July 1846, Bishop Hughes transferred St. John's to the Society of Jesus, and Bayley was appointed to the parish in New Brighton, Staten Island, which included responsibility for a station once a month at Richmond and attendance at the large Quarantine Hospital given over then to victims of typhus.

[30] Shortly after Bayley assumed his duties as episcopal secretary, he was charged with an added responsibility, that of being "a sort of overseeing editor of the Freeman's Journal," which Bishop Hughes had taken over in 1842.

Bayley and his fellow suffragans John Loughlin and Louis de Goesbriand were consecrated October 30, 1853, in old St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, by Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, the Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil, who was then en route to Rome.

The solemn high Mass was celebrated by J. W. Cummings, Bayley's friend since the spring of 1842 in Rome, after which Father McQuaid provided a banquet for the bishop and more than fifty clergy who had attended the ceremonies.

It did not take him long to realize that the ever-increasing, poor, immigrant population was in no position at the time to bear the full burden of supporting those few churches which had been provided and of financing the much-needed additional ones and the other requisite institutions to care for their wants.

Bayley was instrumental in the founding of the North American College in Rome at the request of Pope Pius IX, where he sent a young seminarian by the name of Michael Corrigan.

In a letter Bayley wrote on April 10, 1865, reviewing the condition of the diocese after his first ten years there he says: I find that while the Catholic population has increased a third, the churches and priests have doubled in number.

Convening the Eighth Provincial Synod of the clergy in August 1875, Bayley enacted many salutary regulations, particularly with regard to clerical dress, mixed marriages, and church music.

[1] As he explained in the preface, written but a week before he left for Newark, "Though believed to be accurate as far as it goes, it does not pretend to be a full and complete history of the rise and progress of Catholicity on the island, but rather an attempt to call attention to the subject."

In 1870, the Catholic Publication Society of New York published a "revised and enlarged" second edition which carried fuller notes and an extended appendix; but the body of the text remained substantially the same.