Heffernan, Bernard Leo. Some Cross-Bearers of the Finger Lakes Region, with thirty-three illustrations. Chicago, Ill.: John Anderson Publishing Company, 1925. First Edition. [11725]
Blue cloth with gilt titles, light stains, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, tight. Former owner's signature in blue ink inside the front cover, portrait of Pope Pius XI. as frontispiece, xvii, 222 pp., index. Faint dampstain at the top edge of the pages towards the back of the book. Good. Hardcover.
The village of Aurora, in Cayuga County, New York State, is the focus of this history. Naturally, the early Catholic missions of the entire state are in view before settling in to the Finger Lakes town of Aurora. And so the history begins with the early Jesuit missionaries in what is now New York State. The larger upstate cities are treated with to show the jurisdictions over Aurora, and of the march westward of the Church. Included are New York City, Albany, Utica, Rochester, Auburn, Salina, and then Aurora. Accounts are given of priests and missionaries, and of the three priests who had, up until 1925, been raised in the Aurora Church.
