Sketches of the life, times and character of the Rt. Rev. Benedict Joseph Flaget, First Bishop of Louisville
Publisher: Webb & Levering
Published: 1852
Place of publication: Louisville, KY
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: DEDICATION, iii.; title: PREFACE, v -x.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: HIS CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, ORDINATION, AND FIRST YEARS OF PRIESTHOOD. 1763 - 1792, 17-26; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER II.; title: THE YEARS OF HIS PRIESTHOOD IN AMERICA - AT VINCENNES. 1792 - 1795 27-46; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER III.; title: THE YEARS OF HIS PRIESTHOOD IN AMERICA - AT GEORGETOWN - IN HAVANA - AT BALTIMORE. 1796 - 1808, 47-57; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: HE IS APPOINTED - BISHOP OF BARDSTOWN. 1808 - 1811, 58-96; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER V.; title: FIRST THREE YEARS OF HIS EPISCOPACY - JOURNEY TO BALTIMORE. 1811 - 1814, 97-114; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: JOURNEY TO VINCENNES AND ST. LOUIS - MISSIONARY DUTIES. 1814 - 1816, 115-147; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: DIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS - BISHOP FLAGET'S TWO JOURNEYS TO ST. LOUIS. 1817 - 1818, 148-176; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: JOURNEY TO THE LAKES AND TO CANADA. 1818 - 1819, 177-205; title: 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*.; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: COADJUTOR - CATHEDRAL - SEMINARY - CONSECRATION OF BISHOP FENWICK. 1819 - 1822, 206 - 231; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER X.; title: VISITATIONS - ADMINISTRATION - NEW BISHOPRICS, 1819 - 1826, 232 - 255; title: 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; title: CHAPTER XL; title: THE JUBILEE OF 1825-7 - THE CHOLERA - NEW CO-ADJUTOR. 1826 - 1834 256-285; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: HIS RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE ESTABLISHMENTS. 1812 - 1835 286-304; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: HIS JOURNEY TO EUROPE AND RETURN. 1835 - 1839, 305-328; title: 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."; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: THE LAST YEARS OF HIS EPISCOPACY. 1839 - 1849, 329-346; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER XV.; title: HIS DEATH AND CHARACTER, 347-364; title: 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.; title: APPENDIX.; title: THE CHARACTER AND SPIRIT OF BISHOP FLAGET.; title: Translation, 367-405; title: I. His Spirit of Prayer, 367; title: II. His Habitual Peace of Mind, 373; title: III. His Humility, 377; title: IV. The Manner in which he received the Honors paid him, 380; title: V. His Kindness and Gentleness, 384; title: VI. His Firmness, 387; title: VII. His Conformity to the Will of God, 390; title: VIII. His Filial Obedience to the Sovereign Pontiff, 394; title: IX. His Mortification, 397; title: X. His Patience in the time of Sickness, 400; title: XI. His Love for his Diocese, 402; title: XII. Postcript, 406