David owes Brute two letters but has been busy with the jubilee. They opened in September with the retreat and the jubliee for the clergy. All were there except Father John Leo Champommier who has gone to beg in Canada. For his church destined to be a cathedral. There were 40 ecclesiastic counting 7 who prepared for tonsure including 3 from Father William Byrnes College and 4 others from the same college who wanted to examine their vocation. There were 15 priests. He and Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget at Father Francis Patrick Kenrick gave the sermons. They ended on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. The following Sunday they opened the jubliee of the cathedral while 40 Sister of Charity made their retreat and jubilee. There were few converts. Father Kenrick is their great preacher. The following Sunday was the closing of the Cathedral jubilee and the opening of that of St. Thomas. The following Sunday there was the opening of the jubilee at Louisville with conferences in the morning in the chapel and in the evening in the courthouse. The chapel is too small and away from the center of town. The conferences were successful. When a charge of a plot on the part of the priests was charged Kenrick assured the public that this was not so and that he wanted merely to give the truth, and that they could propose their objections in writing and would answer immediately or within twenty four hours. This proved satisfactory. Old sinners returned to the church and many Protestants gave promise of returning. The first Sunday of October, Rosary Sunday marked the closing of the jubilee in Louisville and the chapel at Bullit. The second Sunday of October marked the closing of the jubilee at Bullit and opening that at St. Michael's and the following Sunday at Spencer. David wrote the Bishop complaining that this was too strenious for Kenrick. The Bishop made light of this Kenrick came down with a fever. David tells of the violent medicine that Kenrick took, but he survived. The Bishop assigned the completion of the jubilee to the other missionaries. David to Brute Nov. 3, 1826: They have received news from France that Father Martial talked to the Princess D'Orleans who was deeply impressed that the organist of the cathedral in Kentucky was the coadjutor Bishop. Bishop DuBourg is certainly the Bishop if Montauban. Martial says that Abbe Felicite LeMennais was greatly interested in the Kentucky missions and sends them all his books and a subscription to La Memorial Catholique of which the chief editors are the Abbe with DeBonard and Haller. Martial had been given the works of De Bonald Chateaubriand and a son or nephew of Lemaistre had promised his father or uncle works. Vincennes is afflicted very badly. They have lost Sister Harriet Gardiber who conducted their school. The second catastrophe is the upsetting of the Cathedral they were building by a storm. The walls were blown down. Flaget writes that despite the loss of Kenrick the jubilee has produced great fruits at St. Charles. He is now at St. Mary's and will next go to winter quarters. The old fever will serve as a mantle of winter for Kenrick. Mr. Celius is doing all he can medically but is not successful. It remains. Kenrick thinks he eats too much since his appetite is good. David is well. He takes the theology class of Kenrick on Sunday and his conference on scripture. He teaches five hours of class every day, he gives an hour of conference after mass and vespers. He preaches at Montour on his turn. All this does not fatigue him too much. Despite some headache he does all his work. He has received the letter mentioned from Sister Rose but has not answered yet. He lists the advantages of the Sister of St. Joseph Nazareth this winter. Father John Dubois is to be a bishop. His virtues should help surmount the problems of being a bishop. Bishop Joseph Rosati finds himself in great trouble. He is scarcely ready for New Orleans. Corruption is such that one trembles. He expects the Mississippi to swallow that Sodom. Martial brought them fifty of these souls who are not capable of learning and even less of religious ideas. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - French - 3pp. folio 8