The bell has the following inScriptionl I 3 s

Jesu + Marie + Joseph ”P. Cosse :‘a faite, Kichelin, 1723, + En 1870 J'ai ete retiree des ruines d'un acien village Acedien, I. P. E.

in 1882 les paroissiens de Rollo 33y g'ont fait refrondre par yeneely at c e de West Troy, N. 3. , en souvenir de leurs Ancetres dc l'Acadie."

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The Priests who have served in the parish of St AleXiS sineG the time of Bishop Aeneas Bernard MacEachern are: Reverend Jean Louise Beeubien

" Joseph Etienne Cecile Reverend Reginald MacDonald

" Antoine Gosselin " Louis Callaghan

' willie: Bernard thLecd " Alphonsus L. Sinnott " John Le CDC nal d " mm d I'IcTague

" R. IacPhee " Wilfred A. Keefe

“ Francis HacDonald

Jugald Zacjonald

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" Jonlld F. ihcboneld

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Eiw.rd Walker

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She Reverend Dr. Edward Walker was the first resident priest and he built the present parochial house. There is in this day no vestige nor mark of the trials through which the pioneer settlers passed: their descendants live in peace and plenty, drawing harvests from land and sea and adhering strictly to that faith for which their forefathers suffered in the cruel days of old.

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The following were the first settlers of the mission of St Alexis,

Rollo Bay: Paul Pitres. Joseph Pitres. William Pitres. Joseph Bourke,

Simon Bourke, L'Aument Chaisson, Raphael Chaisson, Jean Chaisson. Jean Longue epee. Jea J'Aigle. Charles D‘Aigle

F. B. This was copied from a history of the Church written by Rev. A. E. Burke, D.D.. in 1385. and updated by the latcProfessor Henri Blanchard. of Prince of Wales College, and published in the Charlottetown Guardian in l95fl.

A few words have been added.

A, M. D. G.