The first annual report of the Catholic Poor School Committee, established in the Year of Grace, 1847

Abstract

In presenting to their supporters and the Catholic public the first Annual Report of their proceedings, the Catholic Poor-School Committee are able to refer with satisfaction to the results of the past year's exertions in favour of the education of the poor. The warm support so undeviatingly accorded by the Right Rev. the Vicars Apostolic, and the generous manner in which the Bishops' call has been responded to throughout the whole of England and Wales, animate the Committee with confidence in the ulti1n:ate success of their work,-the enormous extent of which they would not conceal from them selves or others,-while the grateful expressions of so many of the Clergy, to whom in various ways the Committee have been able to afford help, are an evidence that, much as there remains to do, something has already been done. Nor could it be otherwise ; for is not the Comittee under the special patronage of our Blessed Lady? Mater admirabilis, monstra te esse matrem! ... [Excerpt]