Despite Risks, Jesuit ‘Circuit Rider’ Boldly Shared the Faith in Colonial America, and NYC

Despite Risks, Jesuit ‘Circuit Rider’ Boldly Shared the Faith in Colonial America, and NYC

This stained-glass window at St. Stephen’s Church in Warwick, New York, shows Father Ferdinand Farmer, who traveled to Catholic colonists in rural areas, including West Milford, New Jersey, and Warwick. LOWER MANHATTAN — Before the American Revolution (1765-1783), there was a different revolution nearly 100 years earlier in England. The so-called “Glorious Revolution” of 1688–1689 was an overthrow of King James II, a convert to Catholicism. This…