Their correspondance is increasing with the recent events. Charles Coomes is fulfilling the predictions of Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget. He has now become a Methodist minister. The vows of the wife have long expired and she has returned to her father whom they have seduced. But he has not been a Catholic long. When the official news came the Bishop announced the excommunications on All Saints Day. The Bishop read on the occasion the letter of repentance Coomes had written in January in which he promised he would not stain the clean record of the priests of Kentucky. Flaget continues his jubilee in St. Vincent de Paul in Union County where Coomes lives with his father-in-law. He had with him Fathers Francis Patrick Kenrick and Guy Chabrat. They repeated the denunciation on November 11 that had been made at the Cathedral on November 1. Flaget writes that he is despised by both Catholics and Protestants and has not done all the evil that he could have. Kenrick says that he has not been present in the church during the jubilee as they think he has the impudence to do. But at the persuastion of some Baptists he came to the courthouse at Morganfield where they were giving some exercises. He had been counseled to speak in his defense but he kept silent. David speaks of Brute's criticism of their prospectus. On the four courses the Mother insisted and David thought her reasons good. The parents want these matters. Nor have they lost sight of the poor for which they were founded. They have accumulated their debts for that purpose and when they have paid their debts they will do more. They have a plantation of 400 acres which they manage themselves. They make their habits and he adds their accomplishments with their 40 boarders and what they hope to accomplish and how this justifies the plans of the Sisters of Nazareth. He also explains that they must do in prudence other wise they would be reduced to two or three Catholics. Secondly if they did convert their parents would turn them back into their old errors. Instead they try to instill a respect for religion, demove their prejudices and dispose them to become Catholics some day. They assist at Catholic prayers everyday and on Sunday and feast day they hear sermons. They also assist at the explanations of the Catholic Catechism by the sisters. They hear explanations of Catholic matters, read Catholic books and the Miscellany. Brute has spoken about a laboratory. They do not have any at Nazareth but they are only a mile and a half from St. Joseph's where they from time to time use the cabinet and where the professor conducts some experiments for them. The sisters teach the ordinary classes three times a week and the professor of physics formerly Father Reynolds come once a week and say a Mass for the sisters and gives a class in chemistry or physics. He does not recall in his memory a Miss Hener of whom Brute speaks and he does not want to waste time on such matters. Father Martial has announced that MM. LeMannais, Bonald, Haller and Chateaubriand have promised their work and a subscription to Memorial Catholique. They expect Martial again in the spring with new students. He does not say how many there will be. There is one from Naples sent by the king who wants to become an ecclesiastic. He wrote to Father Robert Abell that he has also a Capucin with another young man. David thinks that Abell will accompany Martial and perhaps Father Stephen Theodore Badin who has become a Dominican at the minerva to re-or form the Dominicans at St. Rose. He sends regards to Fathers Hickey, Xaupi and to the Sisters. P.S. He received without warning certain numbers of the L'Ami de la Religion. He thinks they are sent at the request of Martial. He thinks the best way for this is to send them by Monsignor Paynter and to Baltimore to be sent on to Father Kenrick. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - English - 4pp.10