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breadth and twelve feet high. It was dedicated to St Alexis by Bishop Plessis on July 17, 1812, and stood down close to the shore beside the old burying ground where sleep the pioneer settlers of Roll: Bay. There are no very old tombstones to be seen in this ancient cemetery; those placed there in the early days were made of old red sand stone and have crumbled away.

The second church was built in 1824. The builder was Bartlett Dunphy. The third church was built in 1953 by Lawrence Murphy and Lawrence Peters It stood on rising ground overlcsging one of the fairest landscapes

of Prince Edward Island until it was replaced by the present inspiring structure in 1930. On this spot, the line of vision is broken by

two beautiful bays, the points of land that separate them being high and well wooded in parts, while the farms thereon give evidence of great fertility. This church was sixty feet in length by forty—two

in width; the height of the wall was twenty-two feet. Between 1870 and 1972 a sanctuary and vestibule were added to it.

The h1g1 altar which came from chtreal was delicately though profusely colored in blue and gold with touches of pink. grey, and brown. The frontal was carton pierre, a representation of the

Last Supper in baa-relief. Above the altar was a fine stained-glass window representing the Eoly Family. (Ihis window is now above the altar in Few Zealand Missian Church which was built in 1932 t0 SBTVG the people of that area.).

The ce3etery of Rollo Bay is considered by some to be one of the

nest beautiful on the Island. It lies to the east of the church and is shade; by many graceful white birch trees. The monument to Reverend Edwar Walker, 3.3. who served as pastor for fortyosix years adds grace and beauty to this city of the Dead.

This parish possesses several relics of the past, the dearest among them which is the bell. Long ago in the dim past the English govern- ment being determined to get rid of the French inhabitants of the then populous little town of St Pierre situated on the harbour of that name, sent three hundred of the French adrift in a leaky vessel avowedly With the intention of transporting them to France. Before . leaving, these poor people as was the custom of the Acadians buried such things as they considered too sacred to fall into the hands of the English. among which was their church bell. In 1870 a Mr Garret Barry of St Peter's Harbour while ploughing in his field struck some object that gave a metallic.sounfl and which proved to be the bell

of the old church of St Pierre which had lain unharmed in the earth for one hundred fifteen years, Mr Barry presented his treasure trove to the parishioners of Morell who exchanged it for a new bell with the people of Rollo Bay. The old relic was rapturously welcomed by the descendants of its first owners and was trilled by kindness. Everybody wanted to ring it and everybody did ring it; in consequence it was oroken and had to be ecast. In 1882 it was placed in the tower of the old church and, when the present church was built, it was placed in its tower there to call the faithful to Ehss and

devotions.