Catholic Mass is celebrated in today’s Boston.

(Dec.) The mass is said by the visiting Rev. Gabriel Druillettes in the Charlestown home of his host, Edward Gibbons. The first Catholic Mass celebrated in Boston, it is allowed only because the Jesuit missionary is a representative of the governor of Canada and was allowed to enter the town because he is on a trade and diplomatic mission, attempting to forge an alliance between the French and English colonists against the Iroquois. Druillettes travels to Plymouth, then back to Boston for a few days, before returning to Canada.