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From the Washington Post, April 7, 1907
Catholics in every part of the country are rejoiced
that Queen’s Chapel is to be continued on the list of
churches in the District of Columbia, for it is
identified with the days of religious intolerance and
the early missioners were those who wrote their
names, sometimes in blood, in the annals of
Maryland. When the modest structure, which has
become identified with the evangelization and
civilization of the region which is now the seat of the
American Capital, was first erected, the penal laws
were in force and its history is clouded in the errors
and exaggerations of those times. The first
parishioners of Queen’s Chapel were colonial
magnates and later Revolutionary heroes and its
first pastors those intrepid confessors of the faith
who have left brilliant memories of their labors; that