Resourceful McQuaid fed his flock [hemlock lake]

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"Bishop McQuaid was truly an impressive man ... As well as establishing St. Bernard Seminary and Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, the good Bishop also founded O Neh da Vineyards on the western hills of Hemlock Lake. Here he had a summer home and farm and started the winery in 1872 to produce altar wines for the Rochester Diocese because of the difficulty of acquiring sound valid and licit altar wines ..."

When Rob Beckmann, the winemaker at the vineyard (now known as Eagle Crest), e-mailed this to me after a recent column about Bishop Bernard McQuaid, it definitely piqued my interest. This sounded just like something the first bishop of the Rochester diocese would do! This is yet another example of how McQuaid provided for the spiritual needs of his diocese by using its own resources.

And the more I looked into this, the more interesting the story became.

read the rest of the story here:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/art ... /1002/NEWS
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Interesting. Now, isn't this next to that huge complex talked about elsewhere on the board?
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Sorry for the delayed response, I've been busy.

But, to answer your question - they are pretty much right next to each other.
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