Lefevere, Peter Paul, Bishop of Zela, Detroit, Michigan, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1859 September 28

Father Joseph Koening was in Detroit at St. Joseph's Church and because of the scandal he caused, Lefevere withdrew his faculties. Koenig is now among the Franciscans, although he used false recomendations for admittance into the Detroit diocese Koenig had nothing to do with the Monroe Michigan affair nor with the anonymous letter which Purcell and Bishop John H. Luers of Fort Wayne, Indiana mentioned. Bishop James Duggan showed Lefevere an anonymous letter sent to Rome accusing Bishops Maurice De St. Palais, Duggan and Martin J. Henni, along with some priests. The writing compares with that of letters Lefevere received fromFather Hugh Quigley and although Quigley denies authorship, Lefevere believes he is the writer of the letters to Rome. Quigley was in Lefevere's diocese but he was soon dismissed. Lefevere accepts Purcell's invitation to the consecration of Quinlan. He is sorry that the suggestion of Bishop John Timon concerning the Rectorship of the American College at Rome being placed under some religious order rather than a Secular priest was not adopted. Father Arnold Damen of Chicago will conduct the Retreat which begins in Detroit next Tuesday. :: II-4-o A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. 12