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Scope and Contents Another Lent has come and many of the Catholic who cannot speak French are deprived of receiving the Body of the Lord. Can not Andrieu come over for a week about Easter and hear their confessions? Some converts wish to be baptized but as they do not understand French, it is postponed year after year. Many go once a month to hear Father J.E Blin preach a sermon of which they do not understand one word. The Catholics here are numerous and well able to support a pastor; they need one who speaks...

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The writer sends a dollar as an offering for a Mass in behalf of the souls in Purgatory. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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She asks Hudson to publicize the Devotion to the Precious Blood, the society of which she is a member. She claims the foundress of this devotion, who lives at the Monastery of the Precious Blood, St. Hyacinth, Quebec is a stigmatic. :: X-3-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He urges Perché to continue his efforts for the increase of devotion … For complete calendar see original of 7 cards. Cross references:1. Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché 2. New Orleans, Louisiana 3. Jesuits 4. Redemptorists 5. Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M. 6. St. Patrick's Church, New Orleans, Louisiana 7. Father Patrick F. Allen 8. Sisters of Mercy 9. Father John Flanagan 10. Father Gilbert Raymond 11. Father Thomas Heslin 12. St. Michael's Church, New Orleans, Louisiana 13. Father J.B....

Scope and Contents He calls Perché attention to a crying evil … For complete calendar see original of 8 cards. Cross references:1. Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché 2. New Orleans, Louisiana 3. Redemptorists 4. Society of St. Vincent de Paul 5. Catholic Militant Union 6. St. John's Church, New Orleans, Louisiana 7. St. Patrick's Church, New Orleans, Louisiana 8. Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M. 9. Father Jeremiah Moynihan 10. Father Cornelius Moynihan 11. St. Peter's Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana 12. St....

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G. sends McMaster $2.70 as mission dues to aid the Indian Missions. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 8 vo

Scope and Contents As a Catholic and friend of religion, A. offers a remark in regard to the conduct of Father James Ignatius Mullon . A. knows nothing of Mullon in the discharge of his duties which is not creditable but his extraneous functions have become political. He mingles too much in the party strifes and openly expresses his mind on subjects of worldly and political concerns. This alienates part of his people and prejudices the minds of Protestants. There are now in this city the Irish and the Native...

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He encloses a poem which is an adaptation of Father Abram Ryan's Feast of the Sacred Heart. He prefers to withold his name. :: X-3-b A.L. 1p. 12mo.

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He encloses a $2 donation for the Lemonnier Library. :: XI-1-c 1p. 16to.

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The writer encloses $5.00 toward the defense of the Holy Mountain of Carmel. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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The writer submits the accompanying sketch "Brave Boys" for publication in the Youth's Corner. :: X-3-e A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.

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He sends his thanks and those of Father Francais. He hopes Edwards will be pleased with the music which he liked to get. Here is some information for the article which Edwards offered to write for them to the Catholic News: Pupils, 560; teachers, 64; graduated last year, 38. :: XI-1-g A.L.S. 1p 12mo.

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She writes in the name of all the children in their quiet little Carmelite home to express the hope that he will grace their exhibition in August with his presence. :: VI-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Abarth petitions in the name of a certain Joseph Brinkman for a dispensation. After the death of his wife he married her sister before a protestant minister. Now he desires dispensations to save them from the scandal of a divorce and to enable them to be married in the church. The second woman was educated in Protestantism and now manifests zeal to be a Catholic, the couple have lived in the state now for 9 years, and the children have received Catholic instruction. P.S.—He adds a case...

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Permission for her servant Marie Louise to have her child baptized, born March 13. :: V-5-a A. Note S. French 2pp. 32mo.

Scope and Contents Abbadie has not had time to inform Blanc of their troubles of January 29 and 30. All has been taken care of. In December Abbadie asked Father Anthony Désiré Mégret to be ready by January 15; on January 19 or 20, greatly in need of money, Abbadie was at Lafayette to ask Mégret to repay at least the $400 Abbadie had loaned him. He promised to come at the end of the month; Abbadie is still waiting for him. Abbadie asks Blanc to put at the disposition of Father John Baptist Maisounabe, S.J., if...

Scope and Contents Painful as it is to be deprived of Father Joseph Soller, S.J., Abbadie agrees with Father Peter J. Verhaegen, S.J.. At Grand Coteau Abbadie tries to justify the hope Blanc seems to have in him either by helping Soller or replacing him in his absence. In this ending of the year he will have many duties. After Blanc's letter he gives up hope of seeing him for the Assumption and Mother Julia Bazire will be greatly put out. They hope they will be more fortunate for the distributing of the prizes...

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This is the least of the trials their little college has suffered but Abbadie hopes that God who used Father Nicholas Point, S.J. to begin the work, will not delay in sending a replacement to continue it. So far they have had no sickness among their students. They are beginning to prepare for the exercises for the end of the year which will be September 15, They want Blanc to be there. Abbadie asks Blanc to tell Father Auguste Jeanjean to come to see them. :: V-4-k A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents A young lady, fearing she could not be married by the priest because she had not made her First Communion, had recourse to a judge. Abbadie wonders what should be required of her before her First communion. Several months ago Father Victor Clerouin, sending a request for a dispensation to forward to the Archbishop's, wished to know if he could proceed with the marriage before receiving a reply. Abbadie told him he could, basing himself on the difficulty of communications and also on what...

Scope and Contents Abbadie requests light in regard to marriages. Can he assist at the marriage of Protestants with Catholics without informing himself as to what sect they belong to. Often he is notified in the evening that someone wishes to marry the next day. This is especially the case with soldiers and other strangers. If the two parties belong to a state where a license is not required, he wonders if he can marry them without a license. August 15 is the First Communion day at St. Joseph's. Abbadie would...

Scope and Contents Since Abbadie completed his task and the letter which accompanied it, a Lorman of Pont Breaux, living outside the limits Abbadie proposed, was brought to be buried here. When Abbadie asked the reason from those who accompanied him, they said that they were nearer and the roads were better. Mr. Gillard had already said this about his house. If their parish is a little larger, there are more to serve it. Abbadie pleads only for the people that they may take their devotion where they wish....

Scope and Contents Here at last is Abbadie's work on the limits. In the north, between Opelousas and Grand Coteau the limit outlined by Bishop Louis William Dubourg March 10, 1821 was not always observed but it was never changed. The line from Atchafalaya to the point where Bayou Courableau runs into the river is going to strike Bayou Mallet on the west. But it has three parts: 1. from Atchafalaya to Teche; 2. from the Teche to the home of Dr. Raphael Smith, now Pratt ; and 3. from Pratt's to Bayou Mallet....

Scope and Contents Abbadie has several doubts to submit. 1. After a baptism, can he refuse to have it registered if they do not wish to pay for it when able? 2. In the distant missions, Abbadie finds hardly any marriages except by the judge. Although they are valid because of the distance he generally blesses them. But then is it necessary that the couple and witnesses sign or can Abbadie state that he married them in the presence of witnesses So and So? 3. When these marriages are null because of an...

Scope and Contents He had arranged to leave the 18th to get their students but the accounts the newspapers give of the state of the city frightens him. So he will leave the 25th and go no further than Charles Fortin 's where he will await the Cora. With their little family he hopes to find Mr. Thomas Fairhurst, S.J. who is to replace Father Anthony Parret, S.J. whom the Father Superior is forced to take away from them. His visit was very agreeable; Abbadie talked to him about Jefferson College and he is to...

Scope and Contents Last Wednesday Abbadie lent Father Anthony Désiré Mégret, upon a letter he brought from Blanc, 400 piastres. He said he would pay it back himself but Abbadie told him that he was afraid he would leave it up to his obliging endorser. Mégret already owes $560 payable next January. At St. Charles College all seems to be going well. They have only 75 boarders and 10 day students. There are 11 or 12 former students who are delayed either by sickness or the fear of it. At the convent he heard the...

Scope and Contents Abbadie asks for the faculty to confer the scapular which he gave on March 30, 1840 to Father Theodore De Theux, S.J. and his associates in serving the parish. In the same letter, Blanc also told De Theux not to give a dispensation from second degree relationship until further orders. Has this order been given? On December 20, Abbadie was at Lafayette to ask Father Anthony Désire Mégret to spare him the trouble of drawing on Blanc's security. Mégret said he had promised it to Blanc himself....

Scope and Contents He has not received any numbers of the Propagation of the Faith since May 1860. One of his parishioners has been civilly married 8 or 10 years to a divorcee who has given him several children. He has asked to have his marriage blessed insisting that he never knew about the first husband and that the latter is probably no longer living. Abbadie wishes to know: 1. If he has been correct in refusing until given proof of the death of the first husband;, 2. if he ought to continue to refuse to...

Scope and Contents Blanc's letter of January 23 gives a new proof of his interest in this little college and a new claim to the gratitude of the one just appointed rector. Yet he has acted differently from what Blanc suggested. He thought that the evil caused by the absence of the two priests Blanc mentioned would not be greater later on. As for the other, he will remain. Of all the trials, this is the greatest. Humanly speaking they have among their personnel, all they could have to insure success. On the...

Scope and Contents In spite of the short time before Charles Forstall leaves, Abbadie replies to Blanc's letter of the 9th. Among the students, Abbadie cannot see that the departure of Father Maurice Oakley, S.J. , Father F. D'Hope, S.J. and the others has caused the least sensation. At the college it has excited a spirit of zeal; in the city Abbadie fears that the four leaving today might draw the other Orleanians to follow them. Abbadie has already noted, in order to pass them on to Father Paul Jordan,...

Scope and Contents If Blanc approves of the change Abbadie has already made, he will ask permission to make another. Instead of Father Ministre, he has sent Father Joseph Soller, S.J. to the convent and after First Communion he would like to replace Father Florian Joseph Sautois, S.J. either by Soller or Father Anthony Parret, S.J. . Abbadie himself would be the extraordinary confessor for the Sisters. At the college, the students seem to have recovered from the excitement caused by the four leaving for town....