David is surprised by Brute's letter that he is behind since he feels that he is the one who is tardy. He has abstained from writing about the man who is giving those horrible scandals during the past three years. He was placed in charge of a convent of Sisters. It began with small deeds and grew into more serious ones. The Superior of the Sisters was warned. They tried to correct the two sisters but after many insincere submission he asks for his exit for Missouri. The two Sisters who were the occasion of trouble were brought to Nazareth by the superior. They seem to be changed but the man returned and asked to take them to their parents. One refused but the other went with him and was lodged with the Sisters of Loretto. He asked Bishop Joseph Rosati to allow her to become his housekeeper but was refused. He clared that the girl was under his protestion. He left Missouri and went to Ohio, then Louisville and Bardstown with his protege to the great scandal of the people. She was finally presuaded to go to live with her father 150 miles from there. The man went there and they married by a Methodist minister. November 1. Today celebrated ponifically but in place of a sermon after the Gospel Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget with cross and mitre announced the facts of the scandal and pronounced the excommunication of the priest Charles Coomes. The Bishop has interrupted the courses of jubilees for two weeks. He ordained last Sunday a deacon, a subdeacon one in minor orders and gave tonsure to one. Brute has seen in the Miscellany the story of the jubilees of St. Rose, Lebanon and Holy Cross. The Bishops begins with Clear Creek and then goes to Union County where the apostate lives. Father Francis Patrick Kenrick teaches theology, scripture and greek at the seminary. He would rather be on the mission and the Bishops would like to let him do it. David has always a dozen seminarians, others to the number of 6 acting as prefects. Father Ignatius Reynolds in the place of Father George Elder fulfills the job of president with wisdom and zeal. There is no comparison between the order he maintains with that under his predecessor. Brute has seen in the Miscellany the eulogy given over Father James Derigaud. It is well merited. His establishment the Brothers of the Mission continues. They have 6 brothers, of whom only one resides at Caisey with one novice and 3 postulants. They have two brothers at Bardstown and one is at Bethann. David is preparing their rules and constitution. That of the sisters is so vague that it cannot be adopted for the brothers. They have chosen a brother superior whom they call Brother Guardian. David is feeling better but his gathering on his right shoulder was followed by two smaller ones. He has seen the prospectus of Father Michael Francis Wheeler and thinks it ridiculous. Reynolds says the program physically impossible. Father Louis Deloul with out saying anything about Georgetown asks for the play of Nazareth. Davis has answered on the page of their own prospectus which he grew up on that of Father de Cloriviere. There are parts of it drawn up by Father Reynold which he does not approve but since the Mother approved he let them pass. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - French - 3pp.10