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Among the first Catholics in the Greenwood Lake area were the Germans who worked in the iron mines and furnaces of Sterling Forest, before the Revolution. They were ministered to by Father Theadore Schnider, who journeyed on horseback disguised as a doctor because priests were outlawed and subject to arrest. He carried a hand written copy of the Roman Missal, which people thought was a medical book, since all medical literature was in Latin.