Dickmann, Father Bernard, Carthegena, Ohio, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1864 May 21

On Pentecost he was sent on a mission to Celina, Ohio. He ordered that they should have a confessional ready but nothing was done. He was obliged to hear the confession of an old woman without the confessional. He asks Purcell if he did right or not. Neither Father Joseph Dwenger not Father John van den Brock used a confessional when they were at Celina. This lead Dickmann to believe that the precept was not to be taken so strictly as he had always taken it. :: II-5-b A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.