Lefevere, Peter Paul, Bishop of Zela, Detroit, Michigan, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1869 January 14

Lefevere acknowledges Purcell's letter and is pleased that Father Ignatius Mrak has accepted. He has not heard from him but supposes that he will visit Detroit on his way to Cincinnati. Lefevere will be happy to assist at the consecration. As regards Father N.L. Sifferath who wrote to Purcell against him, Lefevere says he is a poor production of Bishop Frederick Baraga, formerly a lay brother in the 3rd Order of St. Francis who had been dismissed. He was never in a seminary but because of his knowledge of the Indian language was ordained priest. He knows little theology or Latin. Last summer in the presence of Bishop Mrak, Lefevere withdrew from him all faculties for disobedience, and he will not give them back until he spends a year or more in a regular seminary. He sends his season's greetings. :: II-5-d A.LS. 2pp. 12mo.