Jordany, Joseph Henry, Bishop Frejus and Toulon, Frejus, France, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1864 November 27

The ecclesiastic Purcell spoke about is a sub-deacon by the name of Constantin, not Schlichter. He had been a member of the Congregation of the Oblates of Mary but was obliged to leave them on account of his irregular life and lack of piety. In order to try him, Jordany placed him under a pious priest, a director of a college, but he soon fell into his old way of living. Jordany gives him his dimissorial letters with the hope that he may yet prove himself worthy to carry on the sacred career which he began. :: II-5-b A.L.S. French 3pp. 12mo.