On  Low  Sunday,  April  4,  Fathers  Wissel,  Ross-
hach,  and  Trimpel  began  a  ten  days'  mission  at  St.
Joseph's  Cathedral,  Hartford,  Conn.,  of  which  the
Rev.  Father  Harty  was  pastor.  At  the  time,  only
the  basement  of  the  cathedral  was  finished.  It  seated
2,000  comfortably,  but  could  hold  perhaps  as  many
as  2,500.  At  some  of  the  exercises,  the  crowd  was
so  large  that  many  were  unable  to  get  into  the
church.  The  number  of  confessions  was  2,200.
Immediately  after  the  close  of  this  mission,  the
same  Fathers  opened  another,  at  the  Church  of  St.
Peter,  Danbury,  Conn.  The  Redemptorists  had
given  a  mission  here  in  1865,  when  900  confessions
were  heard;  but  since  that  time,  the  congregation
had  grown  by  leaps  and  bounds,  and  a  magnificent
new  church  had  been  erected.  At  this  mission,  there
were  2,366  confessions  and  2  converts.  The  salutary
effects  of  the  mission  of  1865  were  still  visible,  and
the  penitential  cross  then  raised  was  used  on  this
occasion.
At  two  small  missions  which  Father  Zinnen  gave
at  neighboring  places  in  Connecticut,  during  April,
1880,  a  considerable  number  of  Odd  Fellows
renounced  the  society  and  eagerly  sought  to  be
reconciled  to  the  Church.  Some  of  them  became  so
fervent  that  they  made  both  missions.
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Simultaneously  during  May,  Fathers  Brand-
staetter,  Gates,  Kolb,  and  Zinnen,  and  Fathers
Wissel,  Rossbach,  and  Trimpel  were  engaged  on
two  large  missions;  the  former  band,  at  St.  Pat
rick's,  Lewiston,  Me.;  the  latter,  at  St.  Lawrence's,
New  Bedford,  Mass.  At  the  first  place,  there  were
3,303  confessions;  at  the  second,  3,461.
