Scope and Contents Kentucky absorbs all his thought and all his projects, and poor Kentucky has little of what he wants. If Father Ambrose Maréchal comes he hopes he will not be forgotten. He would like to have Father Gabriel Richard for his seminary, and for other work. He would use Father John David for preaching and for other work. Even Protestants desire to listen to him. He asks that Bruté not forget Kentucky where the roses are surrounded by thorns. He hopes for a love of God to bear his burdens....

Scope and Contents Flaget is very grateful for Bruté's letters which are like gazettes. His poor country is so buried in the woods that his messages are very much appreciated. He begs Bruté to continue to send them news of the church. Flaget tells of attending a sick child which suffered from convulsions which had been cured by spitting up worms while he was there. Three other children experienced the same illness which was attributed to witchcraft. The father said that only a priest could cure the...

Scope and Contents He once reproached Bruté for writing too often now he does not write enough. It seems like 10 years since he spoke with Bruté. If Bruté composes a book like the Imitation he should suppress a chapter to give him all the news since he was at Baltimore. Today the Indians of Missouri know as much as he does and perhaps more. Father Gabriel Richard had written him that he has 40 nations of Indians in his diocese who are ready to receive the gospel. Bruté is to speak to his seminarians...

Scope and Contents Flaget wishes Brute a happy new year and assures him of his affection. He thanks Brute for having brought back his good Roger whose services have become so necessary. He also thanks Brute for the apparatus and their things which arrived in good condition and for which Brute paid the customs. They arrived some days before Christmas and Flaget has opened the boxes except those containing the apparatus, since the room for it is not ready. Father Stephen Theodore Badin has announced that...

Scope and Contents Flaget writes in good humor and as Brute desires he is sending the $50 to Father Gabriel Richard to sweeten his misfortune in not being elected a second time. Richard says that it is good for priests to run for Congress. To him Richard was greater in his prison with his bed of straw than in the center of Congress. Father Stephen Theodore Badin is always having Richard made a bishop, but the letters from Rome say nothing about it but the promotion of Father Benedict Fenwick to Boston, ...

Scope and Contents Brute can scarcely appreciate how valueable his letters are with their precious news which they get from nowhere else. He asks him to continue them even when he cannot answer letter for letter, for that is the etiquette of the world. The news from Philadelphia while less serious in the second letter than they were in the first are lamentable. Flaget and Bishop Jean B. David are becoming convinced that a national council would be useful in these lamentable circumstances. It is the ...

Scope and Contents Flaget does not know why their correspondance has ceased, but if he is the cause he is without malice, but Brute's response has taken away any cause of ill-feeling as his letters have always done Father Guy Ignatius Chabrat, the first fruit of his episcopacy bears this letter and Brute can ask him many questions about affairs in Kentucky for which Brute is to give him some letters of introduction to some of his friends. Flaget asks if it true that Brute has left the Sulpicians. He ...

Scope and Contents The bearer of this letter is a young man Augustine Spalding subdeacon whom Flaget has ordained at ember time of penetcost. He is scarely able to explain the authors that one sees in the humanities but he has behaved so well during the four years with them that Flaget has no doubt about his vocation and he would rather admit these to orders than to leave them to the temptations of the devil. Byrne is not to be scandalized if the man is not as good as Ignatius Reynolds, it is not the...

Scope and Contents Flaget gives his definitive judgment regarding the differences which have taken place in the parish. Flaget expresses his sorrow at the unhappy division which threatens them with schism and even loss of faith and finds no more suitable expression of his feeling than those of St. Paul to the Corinthians I Cor VI, 8, 12, 13, etc.. If St. Paul had been writing to the people of Detroit instead of the Corinthians he would have made the same reproaches. Flaget regrets that in the past two years...

Scope and Contents Flaget has received Bruté's latest letter and tribute for which he is very grateful. He wants to know the source of the oval reliquary, the portrait of Our Lord and Our Lady embossed in silver and a little ivory statue of the Blessed Virgin so that he can send a testimony of his gratitude. He is grateful to God for the bit of the cross he gives him every day to keep his apostolic way. The little success he had in Baltimore for his cathedral is disappointing. He asks that Bruté ...

Scope and Contents He apologizes to Bruté for writing to him only on envelopes but he has to take advantage of the best means to get his letters to Europe through Baltimore. He encloses a letter for Madame Fourrier which is for the most part for her brother, the Bishop; he hopes that Bruté will not delay it. That to Father Jean Tessier is open so Bruté can read it and also their confreres who may be interested. Father Felix D'Andreis and eight of his confreres who may be interested. Father Felix...

Scope and Contents It was during the Paschal season, the harvest season for the priests and bishops, that Flaget received Bruté's letter. Apparently there are many sheaves but the final results will show a greater abundance of straw than grain. To all the burning pains of a laboring ministry, perhaps fruitless, are added the inexplicable contradictions and unexpected disappointments v.g. the instance of Maximilian Godefroi who failed to send the plan which he had offered so generously is an example. He...

Scope and Contents In his recent letter he wrote as a child who forgets the things of the past in the excitement of the moment. The affair of Mr. Millet has been resolved to Flaget's satisfaction and he has said his mea culpa about his letter to Bishop Louis William DuBourg. As a mark of their good relations Flaget has given Millet permission to make a reredos for the altar in the seminary which has already a fine tabernacle. If Bruté has not told anyone of this affair he asks him not to do so. Tomorrow ...

Scope and Contents If the members of the opposition persist in their revolutionary and Calvinistic principles, Flaget will carry out his former pastoral and place them under interdict and if they persist he will include with them all who do not sign the lists prepared by the legitimate corporation. Even if 2/3 of the congregation join the rebellious group he will not give in, because they will have really excluded themselves from the bosom of the church. He will be sufficiently satisfied by the good of those...

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Although not desiring to interfere in matters that concern the Dominicans and conscious of the great good they have done for him in his diocese, Flaget feels that he must agree with Fenwick and support his petition as the only way in which Fenwick can fulfill his obligations in the new diocese. At the same time Flaget thinks that it will promote religion in both diocese.` A.L.S. Latin 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents If Father Jean Tessier worries him in the next six months as he has during the past year Flaget will lose his life or his head. Bruté knows how he has made him suffer over Father Jean David. After that he had some money in his hands that belonged to Flaget and with which he made Flaget pay for some things which friendship should have allowed. Now he comes to engage Father Guy Ignatius Chabrat, demanding him without regard to Flaget's claims. Chabrat adopted Flaget's diocese at ...

Scope and Contents The imposter Timon mentioned in his letter had already visited Kentucky, blessing and preaching sometimes as a bishop, sometimes as a freemason. Although bold enough to pass through Bardstown, he dared not visit any clergyman. He went by the name of Bishop Michael Portier, lately appointed bishop for the Floridas. Flaget wrote immediately to Fathers Blanc and Jeanjean in order that he might be detected. At least it has afforded Timon and Flaget the occasion to renew acquaintance. ...

Scope and Contents Flaget acknowledges the receipt of the petition of the habitants of the month of October. He has read it with close attention, but feels he must wait until he has heard the other side so that he can examine the matter sincerely and render a just judgment in the case. He wishes, however, to set forth certain principles which must be the basis of the future judgments. 1. It appears to him and to Bishop Joseph Octave Plessis of Quebec that the church of St. Anne should be rebuilt in Detroit...

Scope and Contents Brute's arguments have convinced him that he should give the $50 to Father Gabriel Richard. They must not let a simple matter of money break up their friendship. His situation is very unpleasant. The subscriptions for the cathedral are not being paid. Flaget has simply told his agent to get the money here and now. He needs $4,000. The Sisters of Charity through the maladministration of a mother need a like sum. To this he has added a personal debt for a house costing $5,000. He ...

Scope and Contents Flaget says that his letter to Father Jean Tessier which Bruté thought sensible received a peremptory answer which demanded that if Chabrat remained with Flaget he would no longer be a Sulpician. Nothing like that would ever be written by Father Emery or Father Olier. Despite this, Father Guy Ignatius Chabrat has decided to remain with him, hoping that the brethren in Paris will be considerate and not erase his name from the Sulpicians. Since the matter will be sent to Father Antoine ...

Scope and Contents Flaget is ashamed to write on the envelope but he hopes that he will do for Madame Fourrier what he has done for the Archbishop of Bordeaux, from whom he has a response. That prelate has a lamentable tale of his diocese. What Bruté tells him of Father, Antoine Duclaux, astonishes him because he blows hot and cold out of the same mouth. Flaget has submitted in advance to what he decides about his seminary. He followed his conscience in holding on to Father Jean David and Guy Ignatius...

Scope and Contents Flaget renews his affection for Bruté as a very important thing in their sojourn in this life. He is happy to learn from Bruté about the reestablishment of the Jesuits as he has been praying for that for nearly two years. He wishes next for the reunion of the Greek and Latin Churches, to the embarrassment of the Protestants who are discomforted by the triumphant return of the Pope. They are ready to receive the truth if it were announced with sweetness. He was consoled in his latest ...

Scope and Contents Bruté expresses his sorrow at the news of the deaths of these two youths. Their death excites his envy rather than his sorrow, but he sorrows more for the diocese than for himself. The seminarians of his own share his grief and those in minor orders and tonsure will receive Communion the next day for them. To that bad news Father Jean Tessier has added another, the recall of Father Jean David, plunging the diocese in the worst sorrow in five years. It is proper that they have some ...

Scope and Contents It is not clear whether this is a copy of a letter from Flaget or of a formula proposed by Richard to Flaget. It is apparently incomplete. Flaget renews and confirms the decrees he issued from Loretto, Feb. 23, 1817 with the following exceptions., 2. Richard gave in too easily to their unjust violence and made the agreement of May 5 with the illegitimate corporation of St. Anne, treating them on an equality with the proper corporation. This is shameful and unfair to the real corporation and...

Scope and Contents Flaget writes a diary of his journey. On Sunday they had been received very kindly at the house of Mr. Williamson. Monday, he and Father David had the good fortune to celebrate Mass. They left by stage, it rained all the way to Redster-Town ? One night they stopped at Gettysburg. Al Chambersburg, the innkeeper was the carpenter who had supervised the building of Mr. Harent's house. He asked about Father Nagot. The roads over the mountains were very dangerous. Mr. Verina and Mr. Maraty...

Scope and Contents Flaget informs Bruté that he is traveling among high mountains and deep valleys which are suffering from a drought but has received, for the past two days, so much rain that it is now possible to float frigates in rivers where one could hardly have found enough water to wash his hands. From the banks of such a river, which he is unable to cross, he writes: 1. to thank Bruté for all he has sent for in such a region everything is precious; 2. to tell him that Father Jean Tessier has...

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Although Flaget is no longer in charge of the administration of Lefevere's diocese, he will always have for his group a lively interest of which this letter is a sign. He has with him a priest, a friend, a compatriot, and friend of his family, of great zeal and good health. Unfortunately he speaks no English and Flaget has almost no French in his diocese. He recommends him to Bishop Lefevere. Mostly in hand of another. :: III-2-h L.S. French 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Flaget thanks Babade for the few lines he has inserted in the letter of Madame Petit and for his interest in his diocese. Babade understands better than Father Jean Tessier how necessary it is that Father Jean David remain. How else could the seminary go without the seminary what would become of the diocese? Babade would have enjoyed the blessing of the cornerstone of his cathedral on the feast of Mt. Carmel. He was preceded by the cross and eighteen clerics in surplices to the place...

Scope and Contents Bruté's latest letter has edified him with the account of the death of Father John Thayer. It is good for religion that he has preserved the faith after the serious error into which he fell and the censure that he incurred. Flaget spent some weeks in the region where he gave such scandal. He felt that he had worked an injustice about the land he sold before he left. He believes that Father Francis Matignon could make reparations with the funds that Thayer has left. But if all has been...

Scope and Contents Flaget profits by the return of Thomas Hariss to greet Bruté. The poor child is not well after his trip to Kentucky and Flaget doubts that he will ever get better. He tried Flaget's seminary but it was not the place for him. They have been awaiting a long time the rules of the house of St. Joseph, Emmitsburg so that they can use them for the house at Nazareth which begins to take shape. It is on the same land a half mile from the seminary. There are six ladies with 3 or 4 students. All...