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Dec 24, 1845

Journal Entry

December 24, 1845 ~ Wednesday

24th [FIGURES] I recieved 3 letters & wrote
2 I spent the day at the office. In the
evening I went in company with Mrs
25 Woodruff to visit St Johns Market Liverpool
on Christmas eve. It was quite a splended
sight the market was Amply supplyed
with the richest Beef and Mutton, pork, veal
And a great variety of wild & tame fowls
And game, And A great quantity of fruits
of almost evry county & clime the whole
dody [body] of the Market was decerated
with a great variety of evergreen. it
was so crouded with people it was with
great difficulty we could get through
we allso visited the fish And tpedlers
Market we then returned home. And
At 11 oclock at night we attended High
Mass in the Catholicks chapel in Scotland Road
whare All the ceramonies And performoncis

were attended to that are perform by the
catholicsks at high mass on Christma eve
After there offering incense they presented
sumthink to represent Jesus in swadling
clothse After which the meeting broke
up And we returned to our homes at 2 oclok
at night this was the first time I had
ever attended High mass 12 miles

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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
St John`s Market Liverpool on My wife and I paid it a visit. It was a fine sight. The best of beef mutton pork veal and prize bullocks sheep lambs &c uncut filled their department of the Market House game and poultry of every kind crouded its department and fruit from almost every country and clime was heaped fancifully on its numerous decorated stalls and the whole body of the market was hung with evergreen. After we had viewed St John's Market we returned home and at eleven o'clock at night we attended High Mass In the Catholic Chapel Scotland Road Liverpool. This was the first time in my life that I had ever attended High Mass in a Catholic Church. I and my wife eat our Christmas dinner at brother and sister Enion's with whom our daughter Susan Cornelia had been for some time living and in the afternoon we all attended a general tea meeting of the Saints held at the Music Hall in Liverpool with a company of 3 or 4 hundred Saints A few more days past and the year 1845 had rolled round and I and my family ^in^ Liverpool continuing my second mission to the British Isles. My Synopsis of Labours and Travels In Great Brittain in 1845 I travelled in the British Isles three thousand six hundred and eighty two miles.

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On final day of work in temple, 600 received ordinances; total of 5,615 received endowments in Nauvoo.
Times and Seasons stops serial publication of the Manuscript History of the Church (history ends with events on August 11, 1834).

Dec 24, 1845