Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . got and Pev. John Dilhet, who,after having been a missionary at Detroit, was sent to Cone- that place. From the Jesuit College at MScon he entered St. Sulpiceand was ordained in 1756. Professor at Orleans and Lyons, Superior atAngers, he became in 1782 Superior-General of St. Sulpice. Imprisonedfor 16 months in Ste. Pelagic and La Conciergerie, he regained liberty in1794, and though he administered the diocese of Paris, refused the found him inflexible when he appointed him on a commission,an
Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . got and Pev. John Dilhet, who,after having been a missionary at Detroit, was sent to Cone- that place. From the Jesuit College at MScon he entered St. Sulpiceand was ordained in 1756. Professor at Orleans and Lyons, Superior atAngers, he became in 1782 Superior-General of St. Sulpice. Imprisonedfor 16 months in Ste. Pelagic and La Conciergerie, he regained liberty in1794, and though he administered the diocese of Paris, refused the found him inflexible when he appointed him on a commission,and he was expelled from the Seminary he had restored. He died April28, 1811. He prepared several works, his chief aim being to show thatthe soundest philosophers w^ere in full accord with Christian truth. Strictures on the Establishment of Colleges, particularly that of , in the precincts of Baltimore, as formerly published in the Even-ing Post and Telegraph. Baltimore, December, 1806, 58 pp. Seton,Memoir, Letters, and Journal of Elizabeth Seton, New York, 1869,i., p. 245. 26*. REV. CHARLES FRANCIS NAGOT, , FOUNDER OP ST. MARTSTHEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, BALTIMORE. (610) EMMITTSBURG. 611 wago to assist Rev. Mr. De Earth, and there opened a schoolout of which the institution at Pigeon Hills grew.^ To thisinstitution the venerable Xagot gave his personal attention^but difficulties arose, and the Rev. John Du Bois, who hadin 1803 solicited entrance into the Society of Jesus, nowasked to be received in the Community of St. Sulpice, andrecommended Emmittsburg highly as a place for a prepara-tory seminary.^ During the vacation of 1808, the Rev. Messrs. Du Bourg-and Du Bois purchased the ground at Emmittsburg for theproposed Seminary. The students, sixteen in number, weretransferred from Pigeon Hills to the new institution in thespring of 1809. In the summer the venerable Superior, , was stricken down by illness, and though he recov-ered and celebrated the fiftieth anniv
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