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w f f a H The Bulletin .. of the Catholic Laymen'’s Association of Georgia .. ISSUED MONTHLY 407 Herald Building, Augusta, Georgia. JULY 1921 'A' h VOLUME 11. “To bring about a friendlier feeling among Georgians irrespective of Creed. Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Augusta, Ca., under Act of March, 1879. $2.00 A YEAR No. 8 ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH, AUGUSTA, GA. The cornerstone of St. Patrick’s Church at Augus ta was laid July 19, 1857, but the history of the parish that is now St. Patrick’s brings us back more than a century. The first Mass in Augusta was celebrated early in the nineteenth century in the house of a Mr. Big- non, on Broad Street, below Monument, by the Abbe Carl, whom the Revolution had driven out of France. He was sent to Savannah by Bishop Carroll. Church records at St. Patrick’s show statistics of births and marriages as early as 1807. In 1810, a charter of incorporation was obtained from the legislature, and, at a meeting of the Catho lics of the city Feb. 9, 1812, a committee was ap-