1844-11-30 Letter to Bishop Jean-Baptiste Bouvier
| Description: |
A letter to Bishop Bouvier saying Bishop de la Hailandière is no longer willing to be their ecclesiastical superior. Mother Theodore describes the turmoil he has caused, refusing to give them the land on which they need to build a school for the growing academy, criticizing and threatening, and prohibiting the visitation of their establishments. But she also relates the ways the community is prospering: prejudice dying out, five houses with over two hundred children, freedom from debt, the progress of the American sisters, and her determination to stay in America. Date November 30, 1844. |
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| Origin: | 1844-11-30 |
| Created By: |
Guérin, Theodore, Saint, 1798-1856. |
| Contributor(s): |
Bouvier, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1783-1854 |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll61/id/212 |
| Collection: |
Letters and Journals of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Subjects: |
Guérin, Theodore, Saint, 1798-1856 -- Correspondence La Hailandière, Celestine de, 1798-1882 Bouvier, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1783-1854 -- Correspondence Catholic schools -- Indiana -- 19th century Sisters of Providence (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.) -- Finance -- 19th century Anti-Catholicism -- Indiana -- 19th century |
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