Scope and Contents Lefevere's requests in his letter of May 3 are complied with. Father John Reichenbach remained in Germany longer than expected. Father John Anthony Herwig writes from Germany that he is getting ready. A priest from Glasgow, Nyt de Willige writes this morning: Please inquire from Father Cornelius Moutard what he is, and let De Neve know if Lefevere receives him. He is the old vicar of the parish, Tymaart of Moutard. Father Edward Joos is recovering fast, and paid them a visit at the American...

Scope and Contents De Neve hopes much for 1862, which, if he is not mistaken is the year that Lefevere will go to Rome, and hopes to see him then. He is quite content with the past year. Fathers John Van Gennip, Peter Koopmans, and Charles Chambille have not forgotten him. Mr. _____ James only has not as yet come to Belgium, these men will have given Lefevere all the news of the American College of Louvain. The number of students is 29. Father John Friedland is a young and talented priest. Father Ferdinand...

Scope and Contents Before complying with Lefevere's request of September 21, De Neve feels duty bound to inform him that James Pulcher and F. O'Flanagan have not finished theology, and are unprepared to start parochial duties. Therefore he will keep them at The American College at Louvain until further orders. De Neve will always comply with his superiors' wishes, but if asked, would not hesitate to express his opinion; he would sooner leave the people without a priest than to give them one who is unprepared....

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He sends Lefevere's bill for the scholastic year of 1866-67. Three drafts on Adolphe Certes of the Association of the Propagation shows a balance of $654.26. :: III-2-l A.D.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He is happy to learn of Lefevere's happy return to the diocese and to report to him that he had obtained $3400.86 from Paris Association of the Propagation . Does Lefevere wish him to take in a larger number of students or is it allright to credit the sum to students already received for the year 1867-68? McSweeny, who served Lefevere's Mass at Roulers, wishes to be adopted for Detroit. He has received a man by the name of Paul Camillus Maes whom he is going to enroll for Detroit; he hopes...

Scope and Contents De Neve has been in Rome to have his faculties renewed and to settle some questions about the American College at Louvain . All the privileges requested have been granted. The visit to Europe of Fathers Henry Rievers and Remigius Van der Heyden does much good. The former will bring two priests to Detroit, who will pay their own passage. He will also bring one who was about to go to America. He has just received Mr. Uytdewilligen of Glasgow for Detroit. Ignatius Rickert and Donovan will be...

Scope and Contents The American College of Louvain is crowded with new theologians. He expects Thomas Rafter and Camillus Paul Maes to be ready by May. Rafter asks for a dispensation in aetate. De Neve hopes Lefevere will soon be able to do something for the College. The balance due of last year is $2673.69, for 1868-69 becoming one for board, Rafter, Maes, Lewis, Sweeny, Kraemer, Wheeler; he hopes Schaeken and Elvert will pay themselves. He has only five that are able to pay and two are for Detroit. ::...

Scope and Contents If Lefevere decides to leave De Neve as director it will be advisable in order not to hurt the feelings of Father August Durst to write a letter expressing the great need for a German priest. The actual director is not made for the place he occupies. De Neve has examined the correspondence of the Vicar General Father Peter Kindekens ? with the Council of the Association of the Propagation of the Faith and found that by imprudence he compromised the success of his cause. He would be gone if...

Scope and Contents After writing Lefevere, De Neve set out for Brussels to collect, but without success. On the advice of Chevalier Stass he returned to Louvain and went on the Bruges. At Bruges the Bishop John Baptist Malou offered him board and lodging. The Bishop, sensible of the courtesy Lefevere paid him in sending him a copy of their first diocesan council, permitted De Neve to go everywhere. De Neve collected about 600 francs; the Bishop gave 20. Bishop Ludovic Jos. Delebecque of Ghent writes that he...

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John Hodgson, a member of St. Francis of Niles, Michigan, a widower, intends to marry Joanna Walter of Niles, a Methodist, probably baptized; a request is made for a dispensation of mixed marriage. P.S. He asks Lefevere to send him the rest of the 1000 francs by draught. In an added note Lefevere states that on July 28, 1859, he sent DeNeve a draft of $150 as the balance in full of 1000 francs. :: III-2-i A.L.S. Latin and English 1p. 8vo.

Scope and Contents He encloses the expense bill for the Diocese of Detroit. He supposes his draft in favor of Father Francis Van Erp of June 23 was paid. He credits the money Lefevere paid for Willemsen in 1866. He sees with regret that some priest in Hartford, Father Florian de Bruycker is trying to prevail on Father P.J. De Smedt to keep him there. DeNeve has written him to hurry to Detroit. He hopes Fathers Wenceslaus Tilek and Richard Sweeny and De Smedt are already at work. Father Elvert will soon come....

Scope and Contents De Pauw congratulates McMaster on publishing the Church Calendar. He suggests he publish the calendar week by week lest someone should lose the issue with the entire calendar in and be lost. Also he suggests that holy days and special days including fast days should all be marked clearer and that Roman Ordo could be replaced by one word, "Rome". This calendar will boost Mass attendance. He has been trying to find subsribers but many people are not interested in educating themselves to...

Scope and Contents He directed Mr. O'Connor to give McMaster one of the crucifixes that arrived from Jerusalem, and has written to see if has complied with the request. He sends a picture of Miss. Edes. His Bishop was at his parish to bless the Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. So far there have been five or six cures performed through the water. It is his ambition to build a fine school and church. He warns McMaster that some of the clergy are growing dissatisfied and oppose the Journal for the manner in...

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Sympathy is extended to McMaster on the death of his wife. He offered up the Mass for the repose of the soul of Mrs. McMaster that morning. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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De Pauw sends McMaster a list of twenty-nine names which make up his Club, and sends also the amount of their subscriptions $58.. He regrets that the Club is not larger. He will continue to recommend the Freeman, is spite of defects now and then. :: I-2-f A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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He encloses $1.00 for Mount Carmel from Dr. Dubois, Chateaugay. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents Since it has been three months since they left New York, and this is the first time De Pauw has written, McMaster knows that time has not been heavy on their hands. They have had fine weather and both he and Father John O'Haire are in fine health. Father Smith's health is poor. He writes to relate an experience he had concerning the stigmatized girl of France, Louise Lateau. He pledges his word as a priest and a man of honor as to the authenticity of the report. Last Friday, he...

Scope and Contents In the Pilot of Sept. 12 there is a letter signed by Rev. Louis Sabringi, whom he met last January in Beyrouth. The Pro-Vicar Apostolic of Syria residing in Beyrouth complains that this man has collected sums of money in America but not one piastre has been expended in Syria for the furtherance of Catholic purposes. Since his return from America, this Sabringi has talked of building a Church but nothing constructively has been done. He is a worthy companion of Chaldeni the other...

Scope and Contents Father De Pauw sends McMaster a copy of "Courrier de Bruxelles" thinking it may interest him. In this copy is the translation of an article from the Cincinnati Warheits' Freund, which mentions a letter sent from the Propaganda to the Bishops of America concerning public schools. The letter is not published, but when Bishop, Edgar P. Wadhams, left for Rome, he was given the letter. For some time De Pauw has been keeping a respectable distance from the Bishop and so has not asked to see...

Scope and Contents De Pauw congratulates McMaster on his excellent news columns and especially for the treatment of the matter of Archbishop's promotion. A long letter from their common friend, Miss Ella B. Edes, failed to mention the promotion. De Pauw was surprised by the unexpected news chiefly because Archbishop John McCloskey absented himself at the final vote on the Infallibility question. De Pauw is certain that McCloskey has been blamed for the promotion of Bishop John Conroy, and expresses hope...

Scope and Contents He is very grateful for McMaster's invitation to the reception of the Papal Envoys, however he declines it for he feels that he is too insignificant a person to intrude into the presence of the messengers of the Holy Father. This conviction is so sincere that it has kept him from writing the Archbishop. He thinks that he does not deserve the exalted consideration which McMaster holds him. The only motive that could have induced him to yield to the invitation would be to speak to in...

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Father De Pauw sends $3.50 as subscription money for the Freeman's Journal from the Fathers Herbert Ellenburgh, and J. F. Nomandeau, of Brush's Mills N. Y.. He also sends $6.50 as aid to the league for helping the Indian Missions and wishes his contributors to be acknowledged merely by the initials "E. D. N.Y. State". :: I-2-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He thanks McMaster for his high opinion of him, remarking that it should, if possible, spur him on get more subscribers for the Freeman's Journal. He will celebrate a Mass for Saint Anthony of Padua on May 30, and thanks McMaster for the large honararium, but begs him, when sending intentions in the future, to give only the ordinary stipend. For his trouble in getting subscriptions he has been amply repaid on several occasions. When De Pauw gets to New York, where he has not been for...

Scope and Contents Father De Pauw asks McMaster to send him two cloth copies and one six-dollar copy of "Pilgrims and Shrines". He says it is very considerate and charitable of McMaster to help Miss Eliza Allen Starr . He would like the rules for establishing the Holy Name Society. Following Rome's example they recite the Praises to the Holy Name after every service, but the vice of cursing is not decreasing. He wonders if McMaster is not too severe in the matter of mixed marriages. He does not desire to...

Scope and Contents He sends the list of the club he got up for the Freeman's Journal with his check for the corresponding amount. The list is smaller than he wished because people would rather read some protestant weekly or the Irish World or the Pilot and they do not appreciate the Journal. From all he hears, the solemnities in New York, in honor of the new Cardinal were a great success. He fears that Msgr. Roncetti will leave the country before six months, thus carrying away a favorable impression of...

Scope and Contents He encloses a translation relative to the definition on a Friday of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception that was taken from an eighteen year old paper. His name should be left out of print. He has received some vials of oil of the lamp of the Vera Effigies at Tours in the house of M. Dupont. Hudson may have some if he wishes. Monsignor Perche, of New Orleans, Louisiana, has answered the Regulations of the Reparative Confraternity through Father E.M. Frain stating that his intention...

Scope and Contents Hudson's kind letter gave great encouragement to de Pombriay toward continuing his work to establish public acts of reparation to God according to the methods advocated through revelation to Mr. Dupont. The superior of Sacred Heart, Madame Bastide, has asked for more litanies. De Pombriay shall request the authorities at Tours to forward to Hudson all the information necessary in order to defend the truth of the revelations against the unjust attacks which will undoubtedly be made. The...

Scope and Contents De Pombriay just discovered from his Uncle Edward de Laureat the Louis Veuillot wrote "World Christianized by a Crucified Jew", since translated from the French and relayed to Hudson. In the interests of establishing Vestiaries of St. Martin, de Pombriay requests Hudson to mail Father Filling, S.J., the issues of the Ave Maria containing the biography of Dupont. Contrary to a previous translation, the work of establishing a vestiary has the blessing of St. Martin attached and not that...

Scope and Contents De Pombriay is sending the Vera Effigie S.U.D.N.G.C. to Hudson and hopes that he will be able to keep if for his personal property should Hudson's superior not wish, at present, this public devotion. De Pombriay has forwarded Hudson's letter for prayers to the oratory at Tours. He has not received any litanies or prayers, but that is because his grace of Tours left for Rome and did not receive his letter in time. Bishop Stephen Ryan permitted de Pombriay to send the revelations and Vera...

Scope and Contents De Pombriay tells Hudson that the delay in giving Father Irenaens St. Cyr's address was due to the fact that he had to see his uncle. He resides a few miles north of Corondelet at a place called Nazareth. If Father Hudson wishes to write, he must address his letter in care of the Sisters of Corondelet. St. Cyr knew St. John Vianny when at school and in the seminary; he is blind and does not like to trouble those around him. De Pombriay is hopeful for Hudson's success in obtaining...