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For a long time Folliot has desired to be a missionary. He listened to Odin whose words made a strong impression on him. He has reflected seriously and consulted his director who advised him to write to Odin. He hopes Odin will receive him. :: VI-2-f A.L.S. French 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Follot has just received his exeat dated October 17 from Besancon. So he is entirely at Blanc's disposition. He has given his exeat to the Superior, to be sent to Blanc if he wishes. All is going well at the seminary. Father Anthony Durier remains with them; how Follot envies his happiness in saying Mass. Foolot's English is much better. Yesterday two Belgians were brought to the seminary by Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere. They came at a good time as the numbers diminish everyday. Follot's...

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Follot's brother, Father Francis Follot, was stationed at Plaquemine a few years back. For three years his friends and relatives have written to him but there is no reply. This long silence has led his family to believe that he was one of the victims of the Civil War. Follot asks Odin to send some news or consolation to the family. :: VI-2-h A.L.S. French 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Follot rejoices in Blanc's full recovery. Michael Schlatre came a week ago to show Follot Blanc's letter about the bill of sale for the slaves. Their church is finished on the exterior except for the steeple; the interior is ready to plaster. The contractor gave his word the administrators were satisfied, now nothing is ready. Follot has a servant; he has neither a horse nor buggy, only a little pony. Mr. Herbert made him a present of 50 piastres. Nevertheless, he is making out all right....

Scope and Contents Father Stephen Rousselon, New Orleans, Louisiana ` He asks permission to erect the stations of the cross in their church. They were in the old church but a great number of stations were broken as were all the crosses to which indulgences were attached. He thanks Rousselon for sending Father Francois Berthaud to assist at the blessing of the church. Everything went admirably. Since then, January 27, Mass had been said in the church every day. The Sisters of Holy Cross still have the Blessed...

Scope and Contents Follot requests a dispensation for Theodore Landry, son of Julien Landry and Marquerite Martinez of East Baton Rouge, and Losama Martinez, daughter of Hyppolite Martinez and Melanie Comeaux of Iberville. The wedding for July 11 is for St. Gabriel and Follot hopes Father H. Thirion is back to take care of it. The church is progressing. Michael Hebert has gone to St. Louis and Cincinnati to get a bell and possibly an organ. Father Francis Berthaud? Bertot is visiting Follot. Follot thanks...

Scope and Contents One of his parishioners, J.B. Roth asked Follot to write. His brother Trasimond Roth is dead; he was a Catholic, his wife is a Protestant. She wants to know whether she can be buried beside her husband in the Catholic cemetery; if not she wants to transfer his remains to the Protestant cemetery. She is a very good and charitable woman. She keeps a little orphan whom she has asked Follot to prepare for his First Communion. Also the Superior of the Convent asked if, when the church is...

Scope and Contents Everything is fine at Plaquemine. He has visited most of the parishioners, though many have come to see him at home, such as Mr. Labauve, Mr. Schlatre, Sr., Mr. Hebert . Labauve is a man of good will; Hebert seems well-disposed and Schlatre is a saint. Follot said Mass at Schlatre's little chapel, which is more complete than their future church. The contractor says the roads are too bad to transport the brick, and the walls are done to the level of the windows. The Jubilee went very well. He...

Scope and Contents It almost happened that Follot left his congregation without services during Holy Week because of the letter Mr. Kenny sent him saying that Blanc expected Follot on Holy Tuesday. After explanations, it turned out that it was about the Holy Oils. That is why he did not think it necessary to go. He asks Blanc if St. John Baptist of Plaquemine has trustees, or merely honorary administrators. Follot hopes to build a church soon at Grosse Tete, Louisiana . Does he need Blanc's power of attorney...

Scope and Contents Follot arrived here at noon. After Blanc's letter of the 5th, received at Opelcusas the 10th, Follot got ready to leave. The first boat was the Anna Perrat but it did not arrive until the 16th. The Bayou Belle no longer makes this trip. The Perret left Washington Tuesday noon but it was a long trip. He was told that Father Henry Riordan and Mother Mary of Calvary, M.H.C. had left on the 17th with petitions in favor of the former so Follot is still on the "qui-vivre". Tomorrow Follot will...

Scope and Contents Odin's letter of the 11th came yesterday and he hastens to answer the questions. Most of the Sisters Marianites of Holy Cross and even Father Patrick Sheil, C.S.C. will attest that Follot has always acted for their good. He has never refused to hear their confessions. He removed the Blessed Sacrament from their chapel only when there were only two Sisters left, and one of them sick in bed. He asked for $300 but when he saw they did not wish to give it, he asked nothing. Follot thanks Odin...

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A letter from Henry Groebel informs Follot that he is to come to the city to begin collections for the church at Plaquemine. He will leave at the end of the week. He will ask Father Theophile Blancgarin to take his place if there is need. :: VI-2-l A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents Odin's letter of the 13th arrived yesterday. Knowing that Michael Schlatre was going to the city last Sunday, Follot thought he would explain their affairs and now Follot has had a fever or he would have written. Mr. Marionneaux asks $10,000 or he will keep the property which he says is worth $30,000 and he has already had a judgment registered from the Court of the 5th District. $8000 was offered him, but in vain. So if Odin wishes to keep this church and have the title, he should take it...

Scope and Contents Odin has already received the copy of certificate of the marriage in question as Follot sent it last July. In Odin's absence he sent it to Father Rousselon. Mr. Pesico has not paid for his marriage. Follot requests a dispensation for consanguinity of the third degree for the marriage of Jean R. Holliday, son of Francois D. Holliday and Pauline Marionneaux; to Ernestine Marionneaux, daughter of Norbert Marionneaux and Marcelite Brasset. In this parish nearly everyone is related. :: VI-2-j...

Scope and Contents It is painful to send Odin this discouraging news but he must ask his advice. Michael Schlatre has just sent him a letter; he asks Follot to write to Odin and explain his idea. Follot gives an extract from his letter: "Schlatre spoke with Belfort Marionneaux March 4 concerning the church and his future course after the termination of the suit. Schlatre told him that it was necessary to know before the sale of the pews. Marionneaux said in substance that he intends to exhaust the Church...

Scope and Contents He asks for a dispensation for Ernest Marionneaux, son of Norbert Marionneaux and Marcelite Brasset of Iberville, and Emma Orillion, daughter of Theodore Orillion and Victoire Rolland also of Iberville. Two other persons were married by a Protestant minister: Henri Brockhoeft is Protestant and Uranie Cointement is Catholic. They wish to have their marriage blessed. No doubt Odin has heard that they lost the lawsuit about the land belonging to the Church. Mr. Désobry, Michael Schlatre, and...

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When Follot wrote on June 1, he hoped for a prompt reply. He just received it this morning. The dispensation for relationship was for Ernest Marionneaux and Emma Orillion . The one for disparity of cult was for Henry Brockhoeft and Uranie Cointement, Catholic, whose marriage was celebrated by a Protestant minister on April 15, 1864. The first marriage was celebrated on the 11th. :: VI-2-k A.L.S. French and Latin 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents For a long time the military lines have closed so that even in urgent cases, he has not been able to visit his parishioners. He had a general pass but it was withdrawn, as it was from doctors, etc. Absolutely no one can go out. The doctor at Plaquemine went to General Stephen Hurlbut and obtained a pass without difficulty. Follot asks Odin to request a pass from Hurlbut. Follot took the oath as a Frenchman. The Major in command here advised Follot to ask the General for the pass. ` P.S. If...

Scope and Contents At the beginning of December several ladies came to ask Follot to say a High Mass for some of their friends in the 30th Louisiana and to announce it in the church. Follot hesitated a long time about this announcement; they came back three times. He made it, thinking it would be viewed favorably by the authorities. Then when the Major in command advised Follot to write to General Sherman for a pass, Follot learned that when a favorable reply came the Provost Marshal sent it back. The...

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Since October he has not been allowed to go out of Plaquemine. When called to visit the sick, he could not obtain a pass. He applied many times to the Major but in vain. He wrote to General Sherman but received no answer. On December 20, the church was closed by order of the Major. Follot is unconscious of the cause. Long since he took the oath of neutrality. Odin is to examine into this. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Follot introduces one of his parishioners, Louis Désobry who wishes to give a plot of ground for the cemetery. He asks Odin to arrange the matter. He is sending the proceeds of the Christmas and Easter collections for the seminary, $25. The congregation is in decay since the war, and even more since the federals occupied the city. Business is very bad. As for the church, nothing could be done since he saw Odin; and debts remain the same but the interest increases. He would have liked to...

Scope and Contents Odin authorized Follot by letter to accept land for the cemetery, but the notary, G.S. Rousseau, says that he needs a power of attorney; adjoined is the model which Rousseau dictated. Follot asks Odin to send it as soon as he can. It will reach him promptly if he confides it to M.R. Haggerty. Adjoined: A power of attorney to accept a lot of ground from Louis Desobry, Sr. and his wife, Minerva Hopson to be used by the Catholics of Iberville as a burying ground. It is bounded west by a street...

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Follot asks permission to have a Forty Hours. He would like to have it on March 2, 3, and 4 or on March 7, 8, and 9. :: VI-2-f A.L.S. French 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Before seeing Odin at Plaquemine Follot must inform him about the state of affairs of the church. After the pastoral retreat, he tried, as Odin intended, to find some subscriptions, but in vain. Finally, he took care to call their attention to the debts of the church, telling them that, if they would add a small sum to the price of the pews, the debt would soon be extinguished. Instead of this, they endeavored to take them at a reduction. He stopped the sale and told them there was nothing...

Scope and Contents He had hardly returned to Plaquemine when a mother came to implore him to bury her son, a soldier, dead in Arkansas of typhoid fever. The boy, 17 or 18 years old, was never baptized although the mother had sometimes spoken of it and he believes the boy desired it. He replied he could not perform the ceremony and that the child could not be buried in the Catholic cemetery. It is true that since he has been at Plaquemine a Protestant and an unbaptized child have been buried there despite him....

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Follot went to the Recorder's to appoint Mr. Rousseau in his place, but he was told that he should get another authorization from Rousselon. On going with Michael Schlatre, Jr. to St. Gabriel Follot took Father Ennemond Dupuy' s books. Work on the church has just been resumed. The Irishman who had the accident died after receiving the sacraments. P.S. If Dupuy had one or two breviaries, Rousselon is to send them. :: VI-2-a A.L.S. French 2pp. 12mo.

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Follot sends $55 from Michel Hebert toward the fund for the American College at Louvain . The people of Plaquemine have much to do. Perhaps Follot will be in New Orleans soon. :: VI-2-b A.L.S. French 1p. 12mo.

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Sister Marie de St. Benoit, C.S.C. wrote a letter which Follot sent to Rousselon. Follot begs him to reply in order to quiet her and himself, or better to tell him what he should do on this subject. :: VI-2-f A.L.S. French 1p. 8vo.

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Follot asks Rousselon to send by the bearer the holy oils for St. Gabriel's and for Follot. He also asks for two altar stones. He has one that is so small that Rousselon will complain when he comes to say Mass there. :: VI-2-a A.L.S. French 1p. 12mo.

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He seeks a dispensation for the marriage of first cousins next Thursday. :: VI-2-d A.L.S. French 1p. 12mo.