He acknowledges Barnabo's letters of Feb. 24, a part of which is Father Nicholas Mauron, C.SS.R. 's reply of Feb. 5 to Barnabo, and which Kindekens sent to Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere of Detroit. A few words will recall to Barnabo's memory certain circumstances of the affairs of these letters. In 1844 the Redemptorists duly and with a bipartite agreement took over a mission in Monroe, Michigan . However, in 1853 Lefevere heard that they gave masses to be said to other priests but retained part of the stipends for pious causes. For this Lefevere severely reprimanded them. Then the Fathers at Monroe, after endless complaints, finally in 1854 informed the Bishop of their proposition of abandoning the Monroe Mission. Lefevere, aware that nothing would come of protesting to the Superior General of the Redemptroists, complained to the Holy See, July 28, 1854 concerning this objection. Cardinal Fransoni sent these letters to Mauron so that he might answer the charges, but he did not do so, as he admitted to Kindekens, but ordered the Fathers at Monroe to close the Mission there. They did so in May, 1855 leaving many of the faithful without the sacraments. Meanwhile, since Lefevere had received no response from Rome, and the closing of the Monroe Mission threatened, he sent his Vicar General Kindekens to Rome to negotiate the matter with the Sacred Congregation. When Kindekens first got to Rome he checked on the death of Cardinal Fransoni and searched the Archives of the Propaganda for Lefevere's letter of July 28, 1854 and Mauron's letter but failed to find them. Consequently, in May 1856 Kindekens wrote again to the Propaganda on the Monroe affair, and the Detroit case. In June 1856 Barnabo decided to transmit the question as soon as possible to the future head of Propaganda and promised to send the judgment to Kindekens in Louvain before September 1856 when he would be returning to America. No rescript was received in Belgium or America. Letters were sent to Propaganda in January 1858. Kindekens adds the following observations upon Mauron's letter to Propaganda on Feb. 5, 1858: 1. Mauron, having promised to have recourse to Lefevere did not do so; 2. Mauron did not send to Lefevere the explanation he says he sent July 3, 1856 to Propaganda; 3. Mauron omits the Monroe case and speaks only of the Detroit question. The Monroe case is not forgotten in Rome nor in America. This is to be seen from documents Kindekens gave Propaganda in June 1856. This is a copy apparently sent to Lefevere. :: III-2-i L.S. Copy Latin 4pp. 8vo.