In a message dated 7/9/03 12:50:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, genmaillist@comcast.net writes: > I am seeking information on Rev. J. Finotti of Boston. volume 3 page 273 Fr. Dougherty, of cambride, purchased land at the corner of Medford and Mystic streets in 1868 and two years later began the building of a small brick church in the gothic style. This edifice..the core of the present church--was dedicated as St. Malachy's on September 20, 1874. Its early pasters were Fathers Joseph M. Finotti [1872-1876], Matthew Harkins [1876-1884], thomas H. Shahan [1884-1891], and John M. Mulcahy [1891-1911]. " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ page 274 "The first Church of St. Bridget, the old Universalist meeting house in East Lexington, was sold to the Town in 1874. In its place Fr. Finottibegan in 1873 the building of the present church, a Gothic wooden structure on Monument Street, near Lexington Common, which was dedicated only on May 3, 1891. At Bedford, a mission of Lexington, Fr. Shahan in 1884-1885 built the plain little Church of St. Michael." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ page 315 "With this growth [of the Catholic population of Brookline] of the original plain wooden Church of St. Mary of the Assumption, in the alleyway near the railroad tracks would no longer suffice. It's replacement became the great aim of the fourth paster, Fr. Lawrence j. Morris, an able, modest, hard-working and far-sighted priest who took charge of the parish, in July, 1873, after the resignation of the previous year of the learned Fr. Finotti and the premature death of the latter's lamented successor, Fr. Peter F. Lamb." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Page 405 "Rev. Joseph M. Finotti [1818-1879], an Italian-born priest of erudition, piety, and wit, alongside many translations and adaptations of foreighn authors, produced one volume for which our Church historians will always bless his memory. This was his BIBLIOGRAPHIA CATHOLICA AMERICANA: a LIST OF WORKS WRITTEN BY CATHOLIC AUTHORS AND PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES. PART 1. FROM 1784 TO 1820 INCLUSIVE (New York, 18720. Indispensable as this bibliogrphical tool is now considered, at that time it encountered so indifferent a public that Fr, Finotti had not the courage to add the second volume which his learning and his rich private collection of books would have uniquely fitted him to write. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I believe a set of the three volumes of the History of the Archdiocese in Boston is available at the Archdiocese archives on Commonwealth Ave, Boston. Janice Boston