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Scope and Contents Blanc's letter fell into the water and was brought to Beccard almost illegible. Beccard believes it gave him some general faculties and limited him to three cases by Father Rousselon's letter. Beccard's efforts in his parish are crowned with success. Even vespers are well attended. He is going to establish a St. Louis Society. He has no debts. But he is often short of Mass intentions; he has even asked Father Rousselon for some. However by an exception he finds he has more than he can...

Scope and Contents He again complains of the atrocity which massacres his life. He hesitates to leave the country but what else can he do? His isolation is only tenable with the practice of piety but his condition renders that impossible. He has been offered a small rectorship by the Bishop of Valence in France. However, he hesitates to accept it. He asks Rousselon's advice as to a way out of his difficulty. Parish affairs would make it difficult, even disastrous, to leave before Easter of 1861. It would be a...

Scope and Contents His strange suffering continues, There is no one to whom he can talk. Father Charles M. Menard, with his curt, limited, narrow and common personality, offers no consolation. His isolation triples his suffering. Reading Father Jean-Joseph Surin in the hours of anguish is tiresome and unendurable. He is going to take a journey without end and without respite. He has already abandoned the chapel at Lockport because of the haughtiness and insolence of an individual whom he had named to...

Scope and Contents Beccard received Blin's letter yesterday on his return from "around his kingdom". Mr. Jobert went there mainly to distribute Beccard's funds. Beccard sent 40 piastres through Father Charles M.? Ménard, to be distributed thus: 20 to Father Stephen Rousselon, 10 to Blin, 10 to the tailor at the archbishopric. It is piastres short which Beccard will send on another occasion. He takes this occasion to offer his regards to a companion of fortune and travel, of whom he became a confrere by...

Scope and Contents Beccard received Rousselon's letter by the Thibodaux post. Raceland has at last emerged from the watery state which had made Beccard a sort of amphibian. He thanks Rousselon for the Rouyer money; the Masses will be faithfully acquitted. Beccard has lived six years in a new parish of immense length amid vexations of every kind in a state against nature as he is from an educated family. He does not even have a servant. He has put 12000 feet of lumber into his church which is almost finished....

Scope and Contents Beccard is deeply obligated to Father Stephen Rousselon who has helped him and given him Mass intentions. Out of regard for his age, Beccard has done everything Rousselon has asked of him, sung Mass and Vespers since 1860, visited the sick, even going for the mail up to three times a day. He asks Odin to approve his accepting offers from several priests in the city for Sunday morning. This would give him a small fee such as Father Jeremiah Moynihan Moynayan of Dryades Street gave him in...

Scope and Contents Sunday, after a low Mass because of his indisposition, Beccard saw a man of color from the vicinity of the archbishopric who spoke of a meeting of the priests of the diocese. Beccard sent to Raceland to see if there was a letter. Postal delays are frequent. A letter Beccard wrote to Father Mènard arrived six weeks later. Beccard cannot attend the retreat; he still suffers from headaches. He has been in debates and arguments for 6 months. The petition was only declaration of war. Certain...

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He had planned to go to New Orleans last week but the sickness which has been plaguing him compelled him to remain with Father Charles M. Menard at Thibodaux. He sends a model for the certificate which he desires Rousselon to make for him. It is not very possible to live much longer in the state in which he finds himself. :: VI-2-c A.L.S. French 1pp. 4to.

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Since October Beccard has experienced interior tortures which throw him into despair. It is like an invincible force on his heart. On January 2 he was awakened and felt a sharp point piercing his heart. The last two Sundays it was very painful to conduct services. Words are powerless to express it. :: VI-2-c A.L. French 4to. 4pp.

Scope and Contents Beccard was about to leave for his mission at Field Lake last Friday when he heard rumors of Bishop Anthony Blanc's death. Today, he received the news, but due to his heavy workload and strange sickness he is not able to get to Blanc's funeral. He hopes to see Rousselon shortly in order to obtain a testimonial in case Rousselon has to leave the diocese as a result of a new bishop taking over, or in case he is not able to live through this cancer which is eating away his moral life. :: VI-2-c...

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Father Améée Beccard of Assumption Seminary owes Henry for articles sent him through T.E. Benoit of New Orleans. Listed are cloth, books, and a stole amounting to $53.25. The bill is receipted for Benoit by V. Devile ?. :: VI-1-d A. Bill French 1p. 16mo.

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He asks a reply about his son, Amedé Beccard who according to a letter from him dated March 20, 1851 had entered Assumption Seminary at Paincourtville. Since this letter he has had no other although he has written twice. This long silence worries him and he asks Blanc to inform him. :: VI-1-c A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.

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He is pleased to write he has received the tabernacle. He is pleased with the work and feels chagrined when he thinks of how the whole thing was manipulated. He thanks Edwards and the man who volunteered to paint for their kindness. The little church will soon be complete. :: XI-2-k A.L.S. 1p.

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Bechtold sends a pamphlet sent to him by a "friend of truth". Shall they allow Catholic bishops to be calumniated as Bishop Strossmayer is in this article. He leaves it to Hudson's wisdom and discretion to judge whether it is advisable for the Ave Maria to speak out against it. :: X-3-j A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Father Beck, sent McMaster a precious letter concerning several abuses but since no notice of it appears in the Freeman's Journal he concludes that the letter did not arrive. He writes again therefore on the same subject, and quotes the Plenary Council, 11 about fashionable dances. He also quotes from Konings' Moral Theology. He asks McMaster if pastors may approve silently of such forbidden dances at picnics and fiestas if all is done for a good purpose. If pastors do approve of such...

Scope and Contents Beck sends McMaster $3.00 for the Freeman's Journal and asks McMaster to settle a theological question relating to the practice of round dancing which is growing up all over. He asks if a pastor may give his tacit approval to such dances at Church affairs and picnics for the purpose of raising money for the Church and if they would be legal for that purpose would not they be legal on other occasions where the pastor is not present, merely for pleasure's sake. Beck quotes from the...

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Beck is sending Hudson a paper on Castelpetross for the Ave Maria. If Hudson has not published anything on the apparition at Pompeii, Beck will send an article on it. :: X-3-l A. Postcard S. 1p. 32mo.

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Beck thanks Hudson for the specimen copy of the Ave Maria. He inquires if Hudson would like some articles on shrines. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

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Beck thanks Hudson for his letter and the numbers of the Ave Maria. Hudson may attach his name to his articles. Beck has not visited Pompeii. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.

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They are grateful for the volume. He asks for a weekly part of the Ave Maria for Monsignor Bethune of Bruges Cathedral. He sends an article on the pilgrimage to St. Hubert in the Ardennes. :: X-3-m A.L.S. 3pp.

Scope and Contents In a letter written for publication in the Freeman's Journal, Beck criticizes a reveiw of the English translation of the life of Anne Catherine Emmerich from the German of C.E. Schmőger, C.SS.R. The review appeared in the Catholic Quarterly Review for July 1885, and was critical to the book, especially of the wide use made by Schmőger of Brentano's notes about Sister Emmerich. Beck tries to prove from the facts as they are set forth in the biography, that Clement Brentano was the...

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Beck thanks McMaster for his photo which he says was made by P. J. Finney and sends his own picture in return. He says that P. J. Finney has asked permission to correspond with his daughter and wishes McMaster to evaluate his character before he answers. So far his impressions have been favorable but he wants to be certain first. :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12 mo.

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A receipt for $1.05 for freight on the brig Catherine. Signed for Beck by Thomas Blois :: V-4-n Receipt S. 1p. 16mo.

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Becker thanks Seton for his kind recollection of their pleasant talk. In the choice Becker made of No.3 Coat of Arms the national rather that hierarchical character was held in view. It may or may not be substituted for the one held by the first Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick, afterwards of Baltimore. Becker regrets reading of Seton's sprain. Seton adds on the back of the letter: "A propos of a request to suggest a coat of arms for him. 1890." :: II-1-b A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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His mother neither lives nor died in an insane asylum although for some time she has been mentally disturbed. His brothers all died a natural death. Whether he is insane or not he lets others decide. He cannot point out the house referred to as he is bound to silence. :: II-5-d A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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He asks Edwards to please send the tabernacle to him by freight at his expense; he gives his address. :: XI-2-j Postcard, signed

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The brother may take the time to paint the tabernacle. :: XI-2-j Postc ard, signed

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Becker sends $3.00, $2.00 for his subscription and $1.00 for Mount Carmel. He does not care to have his name mentioned in the acknowledgement. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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The people of the diocese do not seem to be interested in the Columbian Catholic Congress, since only one application has been made to be a delegate. Anymore information will be forwarded.

Scope and Contents Since the diocese of Baltimore has been widowed by the death of Archbishop John Martin Spalding, according to the instructions of the Holy See, the bishops of the province have met to choose three names from whom the Holy See can select a successor. Three names have been agreed upon: 1. Bishop James R. Bayley of Newark, 2. Bishop Patrick N. Lynch of Charleston. 3. Bishop William H. Elder of Natchez. These things having been decided, and forgetting the privileges of the senior suffragan,...