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Kundig, Father Martin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, to Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere, Detroit, Michigan, 1842 August 8

 Item
Identifier: CDET III-2-g

Scope and Contents

Yesterday, seeing his congregation unusually numerous, Kundig announced that next Sunday the divine service for the German congregation would begin at 8:30 and for the English at 10:30. He has not yet obtained permission to celebrate two Masses, but had reason to believe that Lefevere would consent as soon as he should hear of the circumstances. Yesterday they rang the Presbyterian bell on their steeple and made it Catholic. "The Society" held its first monthly meeting; it has brought in already about $60. The subscription is daily increasing. The schoolhouse goes on well and so also the arrangements for the addition to the church. Kundig never yet saw a congregation of different languages and national feelings so well united. It is God's work. A copper ball 20 inches in diameter is being prepared for the steeple; the cross, four feet long---the steeple to be tinned---will be seen at a great distance. Dr. Louis Cavalli informed Kundig of the kind answer Lefevere gave him when he called on Kundig's account. Kundig thanks Lefevere for it. He will never go into debt in the future. At present Kundig cannot expect an income as long as they are building. Next week he enters a house next to the church where he will live with the schoolteacher, and elderly and saintly man. As soon as he can spare anything, he will send it to Lefevere. He enumerates his expenditures. After one or two months any priest can follow him and will have an income, a house and sufficient to live, though one priest will find hard work, the mission being very heavy, and the Germans increasing daily. P.S. Father Florimond Bonduel's watch will be worth $15 when repaired. Watchmaker demand's $4 for repairing it. :: III-2-g A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

Dates

  • Creation: 1842 August 8

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English.

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