On Thursday, 19 July, , Fr. John Therry on Wednesday 17 April, He also baptised five children and solemnized two marriages and so the Catholic tradition commenced in the Illawarra. After this Fr. In he was elected a founding fellow of the Council of St. Therry remained at the Balmain parish until he died on 25 May, The assistance or substantial tolerance of the leading colonists was assured, and on 29 October Governor Macquarie laid the foundation stone of St Mary's Church on a site he had assigned at the edge of Hyde Park, near the convict barracks.
Francis Greenway made himself available for consultation on the architecture and construction. John Campbell , John Piper and Frederick Goulburn were regularly involved in the organization of subscriptions.
Government help was promised, but Therry was criticized for the elaborate design and size of the building, and the project quickly got out of hand financially.
His accounts, never very coherent though always scrupulously maintained, became progressively more chaotic as his charities multiplied and the financing of schools and churches in Sydney, Parramatta, and the outlying townships involved him in attempts to raise funds by farming and stock-breeding. The scattered and casual nature of his dealings, the absence of a reliable and able book-keeper and his own sanguine character made financial crisis inevitable.
His failure to separate private and public matters hampered and indeed later crippled his apostolate. But demands for his service came from the hospital, gaols, farms, the government establishments, his own day and Sunday schools, and from road-gangs and assigned convicts.
Oppressive behaviour by officials or settlers towards the soldiers or convicts angered him, particularly where religious issues were involved. He was bitterly resentful of his exclusion from certain government institutions, especially the Orphan School, where he was unhappy about children whose parents were Catholic being baptized and instructed by the Anglican chaplains. By , however, the patronage of Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane and his own growing experience encouraged him to hope for impartiality and support.
He was confident that, with the arrival of new priests to share his work, a remarkable expansion of Catholic practice and activity was possible. With the aid of his committees, trustees and friends, and the advent of what he termed 'a free, liberal and talented press', he began to feel secure. He had even been held up by the governor as a model of discrimination and good judgment to the zealous and horrified Presbyterian pioneer, the recently arrived Dr John Dunmore Lang.
When the British government decided on a major religious adjustment to ensure the stability and increase the influence of the straining overseas branches of the state Church, Therry along with other Dissenters found himself fighting once more for permission to carry out vital services of his ministry.
In its provisions the Church of England was overwhelmingly favoured. Therry was proud of his friendship and contacts with non-Catholics and irenical rather than sectarian by conviction, but found it hard enough to cope with the demands of the ten thousand Catholics for assembly, instruction and burial without the added unwelcome prospect of perpetual disputes with the privileged Anglicans over precedence, registration, fees and access to colonial funds.
Already a rallying point for religious grievance, he now became prominent in a possible opposition party. On 14 June the Sydney Gazette misquoted him as having but 'qualified' respect for 'the other Revd.
Gentlemen of the Establishment'. The incident was magnified in a time of tension. Bathurst was shocked at Therry's pragmatic approach to those regulations he regarded as unjust or petty and at his open assault on religious monopoly. He was removed from his official situation as chaplain and his salary was withdrawn soon after the arrival of Governor Darling.
Whilst he was away, Father Therry, who knew all the passages of the place, entered, gave the sick person consolation, and when returning met the official, who told him he could not be admitted. Many of the petty officials were very insolent to Father Therry and his flock, taking advantage of the circumstances.
It was permitted to have divine service in the old Court House, a large building, now a public school in Castlereagh Street, but because their pastor was not recognised by the Government, the door was locked against them.
But in defiance of such insolence the door was forced open. It is said Mr Wentworth, the lawyer, was consulted as to the steps the Catholic ought to take to secure the Court House for divine service, as they had as good a right as others to use it for that purpose. The letter was dated October 29, and the writer was from Newcastle.
Therry has been here during the last fortnight. He has twice celebrated Mass at Newcastle on Sunday and Sunday week and has made in the interval a tour into the interior. Father John Therry was born in Cork and was privately educated at St Patrick's College at Carlow, and in was ordained as a priest. Who is John Therry? He did parish work in Dublin and later on was secretary to the bishop of Cork.
How did John Therry die? On 25 May he died after a few hours illness, working to the last day of his life. What did Father Philip Conolly do?
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