An edition of Sketches of the life, times and character of the Rt. Rev. Benedict Joseph Flaget, First Bishop of Louisville
(1852)
Sketches of the life, times and character of the Rt. Rev. Benedict Joseph Flaget, First Bishop of Louisville
by M. J. Spalding
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS.
DEDICATION, iii.
PREFACE, v -x.
CHAPTER I.
HIS CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, ORDINATION, AND FIRST YEARS OF PRIESTHOOD. 1763 - 1792, 17-26
His Birth - Parentage - Brothers and Aunt - Words of his dying Mother - Love for Orphans - Incident of Childhood - Presentiment - Vocation to the Ministry - Confirmation - Bishop De Bonald - He joins the Sulpicians - Solitude of Issy - He is at Nantes, and at Angers - French Revolution - His calmness amidst its Horrors - Retirement at Billom.
CHAPTER II.
THE YEARS OF HIS PRIESTHOOD IN AMERICA - AT VINCENNES. 1792 - 1795 27-46
French revolution - Exiled French clergy in England and America - Monsieur Flaget sails for America - Sent to Vincennes - Delay in Pittsburgh - General Wayne - Incidents - Journey to Louisville and Vincennes - State of Religion there - His labors - Small-pox - Improvements in agriculture and manufactures - Early religious history of Vincennes - He is recalled to Baltimore - Goes by New Orleans - Arrival in Baltimore.
CHAPTER III.
THE YEARS OF HIS PRIESTHOOD IN AMERICA - AT GEORGETOWN - IN HAVANA - AT BALTIMORE. 1796 - 1808, 47-57
College at Georgetown - College Life - George Washington - M. Flaget is sent to Havana - Difficulties - Yellow Fever - A Foster Mother - M. Calvo - Obstacles removed - Great rejoicing - Remains in Havana - Louis Philippe - Contemplates a Foreign Tour - Returns to Baltimore - College duties - Attends convicts - Distress about friends - The higher ways of perfection - Wishes to become a Trappist.
CHAPTER IV.
HE IS APPOINTED - BISHOP OF BARDSTOWN. 1808 - 1811, 58-96
Increase of Catholics - Bishop Carroll - New Sees - Four new Bishops appointed - M. Flaget named Bishop of Bardstown - He refuses - Interview with Bishop Carroll - Correspondence - Goes to France - M. Emery - Obliged to accept - Singular present - Embarks for America - Incident on voyage - Consecrated - Apostolical poverty - Sets out for his Diocese - Journey from Louisville to Bardstown - Ceremonial of his Inauguration at St. Stephen's - Early Missions of Kentucky recapitulated.
CHAPTER V.
FIRST THREE YEARS OF HIS EPISCOPACY - JOURNEY TO BALTIMORE. 1811 - 1814, 97-114
Extent of his Diocese - Fewness of priests - First priest ordained in the West - Statistics - His episcopal palace - Retreats and clerical conferences - Subjects of uneasiness - Resources for comfort and strength - His seminary - Father David - Zeal of seminarians - Thomas Howard - Prospects of the seminary - Severe missionary labors - Visitations and privations - Journey to Baltimore - Visits the Northern portion of his Diocese - And passes through Ohio - Incidents of travel - His impression of Baltimore - Returns.
CHAPTER VI.
JOURNEY TO VINCENNES AND ST. LOUIS - MISSIONARY DUTIES. 1814 - 1816, 115-147
Petition from Catholics of Vincennes - Governor Harrison - Spiritual destitution - Religious history of Vincennes from 1795 to 1814 - M. Rivet - Indian missions - The praying chief - M. Olivier - Early history of Kaskaskias and other French settlements - Succession of priests therein - Bishop Flaget visits Vincennes - Cahokias - St. Louis - Florissant - St. Charles - Kaskaskias - St. Genevieve - And Prairie du Rocher - Sets out on his return - Again in Vincennes - Painful rumor and ludicrous incident - Returns to Kentucky - Severe missionary labors - M. Nerinckx departs for Europe - An inward vojce - Discussion with preacher Tapscott - Two tributes to Archbishop Carroll.
CHAPTER VII.
DIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS - BISHOP FLAGET'S TWO JOURNEYS TO ST. LOUIS. 1817 - 1818, 148-176
Early missionaries in the South - De Soto's expedition - The battle of Mavilla - The "dry Mass" - France and Spain - Founding of New Orleans - One of the first martyrs - Jesuit missions among the Yazoos, Arkansas, Alibamons, and Choctaics - The Post of Arkansas - Massacre by the Natchez - Death of missionaries - Thrilling adventures and narrow escape - The fate of the Natchez - Ursuline nuns in New Orleans - -Orphans - Hospital - Indian chiefs opinion of the nuns - Results of the missions - See of New Orleans - Its first Bishop - The second Bishop - History of the see - M. Dubourg appointed administrator - Religious Statistics of Louisiana - Proposed new see at St. Louis, and translation of Bishop Flaget - How the plan was delayed - Bishop Flaget's second journey to St. Louis - Preparing the way - Success - Liberal donation - A curious scene - Disagreeable travel - A danseuse - Arrival of Bishop Dubourg - Joyful meeting - The steamboat Piqua - A Noah's ark - Solemn installation of Bishop Dubourg - Return to Kentucky.
CHAPTER VIII.
JOURNEY TO THE LAKES AND TO CANADA. 1818 - 1819, 177-205
Bishop Dubourg's kindness - Early religions history of Canada - A golden maxim - The first missionary - First martyrs - The apostle of the Hurons - Glance at the Jesuit missions of the North - Trouble in Detroit - The Bishop departs - Journey through Ohio - Indians - River Raisin - Detroit - Governor Cass and General Macomb - A solemn reconciliation - Falls of Niagara - Montreal - Quebec - The village of the Algonquins - The great Indian treaty of St. Mary's - Colonel Johnson - The Bishop sick with fever - Missionary labors at Detroit and river Raisin - Returns homeward - Swearing boatmen - Pittsburgh - Its early religious history - Cincinnati - Early missions of Ohio - Reception at home*.
CHAPTER IX.
COADJUTOR - CATHEDRAL - SEMINARY - CONSECRATION OF BISHOP FENWICK. 1819 - 1822, 206 - 231
Scruples of conscience - How solved - Father David - His character - Presented for the bishopric of Philadelphia - Escapes the nomination - Appointed Coadjutor - Hie objections to accepting - The Cathedral - Laving corner-stone, and solemn dedication - Consecration of Bishop David - The seminary removed - Impressions of a clerical traveler - Arrival of a Propagandist - Correspondence concerning Bishops for Cincinnati and Detroit - Father Fenwick appointed Bishop of Cincinnati, and consecrated - His labors in Ohio blessed - Condition of his Diocese - His zeal, and death - Bishop Flaget's love for his priests - Rev. Mr. Abell - Rev. M. Hosten - Rev. M. Derigaud.
CHAPTER X.
VISITATIONS - ADMINISTRATION - NEW BISHOPRICS, 1819 - 1826, 232 - 255
Pastoral solicitude - In ccelo quies - Journey to Vincennes - Amusing incident - Visit to Tennessee - Religious statistics - Preacher vardiman - Protestant liberality - Dressing a preacher - Another journey to Vincennes - Administration - Clerical retreats and conferences - Loving the laws of the Church - Matrimonial dispensations - Public penance - Two anecdotes - Reconciling enmities - Management of temporals - Two visits by Bishop Dubourg - Correspondence on new bishoprics - At St. Louis and Pittsburgh - Dr. Gallitzin - New Archbishopric in the West - Bishops of Boston and of New York - Bishop Dubourg leaves America - His character - The Propagation of tne Faith - Inglesi
CHAPTER XL
THE JUBILEE OF 1825-7 - THE CHOLERA - NEW CO-ADJUTOR. 1826 - 1834 256-285
Why this Jubilee was solemn - Conferences - Discomfiture of Sneed - Effects of Jubilee - Bishop Flaget consecrates Archbish. Whitfield, and goes to the first Provincial Council - His meeting with Bishop England - Charles Carroll of Carrolton - The Bishop in Court - His speech on the occasion - Offers his resignation - Consecration of Bishop Kenrick - Bishop England in Kentucky - Bishop Flaget's eloquence - He is sad - How consoled - Arrival of the Jesuits - Meets Bishop Rosati at Vincennes - Goes to St. Louis - His resignation accepted - Excitement in Kentucky - He is reinstated - The Cholera - His devotedness - He is seized with the malady - His new Coadjutor consecrated - Consecration of Bishops Purcell, Rese, Brute, Miles, and De Neckere - Anecdote of Bishop England.
CHAPTER XII.
HIS RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE ESTABLISHMENTS. 1812 - 1835 286-304
The tree and its fruits - A rapid sketch - Dominican convent - And college of St. Thomas Acpiinas - The Sisters of St. Dominic - Loretto Society - Its statistics - The Bishop's testimony - Sisterhood of Charity - Its origin, objects, and subsequent condition - A consoling feature - The Brotherhood - Mount Casino - Bishop Flaget's anticipations - How frustrated - The election of a Guardian - Schools to be every where established - Letter from the Propaganda - Remarks on Christian education - St. Joseph's College - Its rise and history - The Rev. G. A. M. Elder - St. Mary's College - The Rev. Wm. Byrne - The theological and the preparatory Seminary - A forged Letter - Statistics of the Diocesan establishments in 1825 - Recapitulation - Consolation at the hour of death.
CHAPTER XIII.
HIS JOURNEY TO EUROPE AND RETURN. 1835 - 1839, 305-328
Journey to Europe long contemplated - Gallicanism - Ruse of Bishop David - Taking French leave, and sailing for Europe - He is at Nantes and Angers - Visits Rome - Affecting interview with Gregory XVI. - Is charged with a mission in France - Visits the Austrian Emperor and Metternich - Family of Charles X. -Louis Philippe - Travels in France and Sardinia - Charles Albert - Duke de Montmorency - Count de Maistre - Makes the tour of forty-six French Dioceses - Reputation for sanctity - Wonderful cures - Documentary evidence - Fruits of his labors - Consults the Pontiff - The answer of Rome - Resolves to return - Bids a final adieu to France - Goes to die "among his own."
CHAPTER XIV.
THE LAST YEARS OF HIS EPISCOPACY. 1839 - 1849, 329-346
He makes the tour of his establishments, and visits his Diocese - Travels six hundred miles on. horseback - How he spent his intervals of leisure - Anecdote of Bishop David - The death of the latter - His character - Translation of the see to Louisville - Reasons for and against the change - He regrets to leave Bardstown - Arrival of Sisters of the Good Shepherd - How this colony was obtained - Nature and objects of the Institute - Health of his Coadjutor impaired - The Coadjutor visits France, and resigns - His present retreat - The Bishop left desolate - The third Coadjutor is consecrated - The Nunc Dimittis - The Jesuits reenter the Diocese, and take St. Joseph's college - New college in Louisville - Arrival of the Trappists - Character of their institution - Corner-stone of the new Cathedral laid.
CHAPTER XV.
HIS DEATH AND CHARACTER, 347-364
Finishing his course - The day of eternity - The setting sun - His preparation for death - An incident - His estimate of life - Failing of faculties - What privation gave him most concern - Vertigo - The Head of Christ - Forgetting every thing - His favorite expressions and ejaculations - Symptoms of approaching death - He receives the last sacraments - Affecting scene - He "sleeps in the Lord" - His funeral - Description of an eye-witness - Brief sketch of his character - The book of nature - Parable of the hen and chickens - Conclusion.
APPENDIX.
THE CHARACTER AND SPIRIT OF BISHOP FLAGET.
Translation, 367-405
I. His Spirit of Prayer, 367
II. His Habitual Peace of Mind, 373
III. His Humility, 377
IV. The Manner in which he received the Honors paid him, 380
V. His Kindness and Gentleness, 384
VI. His Firmness, 387
VII. His Conformity to the Will of God, 390
VIII. His Filial Obedience to the Sovereign Pontiff, 394
IX. His Mortification, 397
X. His Patience in the time of Sickness, 400
XI. His Love for his Diocese, 402
XII. Postcript, 406
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