56                  HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

CHAPTER VI.-FATHER SIMON SANDERL, 1844 TO 1847.

    In 1844 Father Simon Sanderl, C.SS.R., a Bavarian Redemptorist, came from Baltimore to Waterloo County.  Father Schneider then moved westward to serve the people from Stratford to Goderich better.  Father Sanderl had his home at St. Agatha and began a new register in which he enters his baptisms, marriages and funerals separately with the dates and places of his ministrations for the whole territory served by him.  The places visited by him more or less frequently were Berlin, Preston, Puslinch, St. Clement's (called King's Bush), South East Hope, St. Thomas, London, Rainham, Chippawa, Alona and other places,
    In the course of the year 1847 Father Sanderl went to Toronto, where the ship fever was raging, to assist the Toronto Bishop and priests in their need.  Father Schneider also went there, and both must have remained quite a long time.  The register of St. Paul's Church there has many baptisms, etc., by Father Schneider during the fever time.
    Father Gibney died in the fall of this year, and Father Sanderl then left Waterloo County and became resident pastor of Guelph.
    This left Waterloo County without a priest.  Therefore Father Schneider once more came to the assistance of his old friends here for several months.  He also went to Guelph and baptized a large number of children on one visit, showing that there had been no priest there for some time.