"Believe me dear Father, there is seldom a day which passes, without a very loving thought, and a sincere prayer for S. Mary's, and many is the Holy Eucharist that has been offered for S. Mary's, her priest and people and for the dear friends who helped me establish Holy Mother Church, in a very old town even thirty years ago, where the Church's voice had never been heard..."

—From a letter from Father James Noble to Father John Crowell, Advent Sunday, 1916