The Right Rev. Monsignor William E. Cashin, died Wednesday afternoon in St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, at the age of seventy-three. He was pastor of St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in lower Manhattan. He was ordained at St. Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoodie in 1903, at age thirty-two. He was the chaplain at Sing Sing prison for more than 12 years. He became the lifelong friend, confidant, and at times financial buttress of convicts. In 1924, at his final mass there, 200 prisoners attended. His new parish had a fame of its own. St. Andrew's Church, nestled between the Municipal Building and the United States Courthouse in Duane street, was known as the Printer's Church. In 1901, Pope Pius had given permission to hold 2:30 A.M. masses on Sunday, for the benefit of newspapermen in nearby Park Row, then the center of New York's journalism. "Father Bill," as chaplain of the Midnight Mass Association, came to know more newspapermen, printers, and other night workers than any other person in New York. In 1937 he celebrated the "Red Mass," inaugurated in Yonkers, New York by Catholic jurists and barristers. The officiating priests wear red vestments and altar boys, red cassocks under white surplices. Monsignor Cashin was mentioned by legendary, New Yorker magazine writer Joseph Mitchell in his profile "Mazie" (1940). Mazie Gordon was an unsung hero in helping many of the Bowery bums, and Monsignor Cashin was her friend and confidant. (Yonkers, New York, Herald Statesman, Jan. 18, 1945)
The Right Rev. Monsignor William E. Cashin, died Wednesday afternoon in St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, at the age of seventy-three. He was pastor of St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in lower Manhattan. He was ordained at St. Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoodie in 1903, at age thirty-two. He was the chaplain at Sing Sing prison for more than 12 years. He became the lifelong friend, confidant, and at times financial buttress of convicts. In 1924, at his final mass there, 200 prisoners attended. His new parish had a fame of its own. St. Andrew's Church, nestled between the Municipal Building and the United States Courthouse in Duane street, was known as the Printer's Church. In 1901, Pope Pius had given permission to hold 2:30 A.M. masses on Sunday, for the benefit of newspapermen in nearby Park Row, then the center of New York's journalism. "Father Bill," as chaplain of the Midnight Mass Association, came to know more newspapermen, printers, and other night workers than any other person in New York. In 1937 he celebrated the "Red Mass," inaugurated in Yonkers, New York by Catholic jurists and barristers. The officiating priests wear red vestments and altar boys, red cassocks under white surplices. Monsignor Cashin was mentioned by legendary, New Yorker magazine writer Joseph Mitchell in his profile "Mazie" (1940). Mazie Gordon was an unsung hero in helping many of the Bowery bums, and Monsignor Cashin was her friend and confidant. (Yonkers, New York, Herald Statesman, Jan. 18, 1945)
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