Ervolina said he held onto his secret for more than 50 years and still hasn’t told his two daughters or his wife. Watching the movie “Spotlight” and seeing the clergy abuse scandal unfold in the Buffalo Diocese over the past year and a half prompted him to tell his sister, who then connected him with Boyd.

Ervolina said he applied last year to the diocese’s compensation program, but declined its offer.

“They were going to give me $40,000 for 50 years of pain, guilt and shame,” he said.

Ervolina isn’t the only person accusing Harrington of abuse.

A Buffalo man who asked that his name not be identified for this story said he also was an altar boy when Harrington took him to Montreal and fondled him while he took a bath in a hotel room.

“I think I was 12 years old. I had no idea about anything,” said the man, who recalled that Harrington regularly took an altar boy on trips with him.

“At the time he chose me to do this, I thought it was an honor,” he said. “It turned out to be something different.”

During the trip, the man said he served on the altar as Harrington celebrated Masses at three or four large churches or shrines in Montreal.