Benoit, Father Julian, Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1871 July 23

He was told it was necessary for an administrator to write to Rome to obtain the faculties he needs for the administration of the diocese. If the Bishop whose diocese he administers had extraordinary faculties, he believes those faculties to be personal and the administrator should ask for them or he could not use them. It seems to him the faculties that are granted to all the bishops in this country are granted also to the administrator sede vacante. :: II-5-e A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.