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when the clergy of the diocese at a birthday banquet, given in his honor, presented him with a purse of $2,000, he immediately turned it over to the furtherance of this great work of charity. Not content with this work, and doubtless also desirous for the seggregation of the sexes, he caused to be erected a short distance from the first substantial stone building, another building of brick, equally substantial, Which he called "St. Mary's Home for Girls," the first institution being thereafter denominated "St. John's Home for Boys." These two institutions are in charge of "Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary." When the writer visited these institutions about five years ago to write up historical sketches thereof, he was greatly surprised at witnessing the efficiency of the instruction therein imparted which fitted the graduates for admission to college, and some of the graduates had already obtained remunerative positions and at least two of them, at that early day, had expressed their gratitude to their alma mater by substantial donations to the institutions.
The number of children in the two institutions at the time of the visit was 300, about 200, including some girls, yet in "St. John's Home and 99 in "St. Mary's Home for Girls." The best feature, however, of such institutions is that the generality of those who are trained in them, in after life remain faithful to their religion.
Nor was this all the charitable works undertaken by the late lamented bishop. In conjunction with the Right Reverend John J. McCort, then his auxiliary bishop, to aid him in the work which had become too arduous for his enfeebled health, feeling that there existed a necessity for an institution for the care of infants and children of tender years, he established in Ebensburg in the convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph, formerly the Mother House of that Order in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, a Home for Infants, opened about the beginning of the year 1920.
Pope Pius IX., while yet plain Father Giovanni Mastai Ferretti, had by his great charity in providing institutions for the care of orphan children endeared himself so much in the estimation of his flock as to be known by them by the sobriquet of Tata Giovanni ("Daddy John"). Well might the late Bishop Garvey be affectionately denominated "Daddy Eugene."
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