A BABYLON PRIEST IN TROUBLE. Share full article. Aug. 26, 1884. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 26, 1884, Page 8 Buy Reprints.

Currently the plumpish, bespectacled priest lives at a Catholic hospital, celebrates mass in its chapel, depends for clothing and pocket money on the $2 or $3 his Chaldeans give in weekly collections.