Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . d say the rosary frequently ; to attend mass punc-tually, if it was said within five miles walk or ten miles ride,and especially to instruct their children and servants in theprinciples of their faith. He had frequent encounters with the Protestant ministers^but his keen wit and his learning generally made him dread-ed. Although his own flock was more than enough for hiscare, he was constantly instructing and receiving Protestantsinto the Church. In July, 1805, a priest came to relieve him—one who wasto lea
Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . d say the rosary frequently ; to attend mass punc-tually, if it was said within five miles walk or ten miles ride,and especially to instruct their children and servants in theprinciples of their faith. He had frequent encounters with the Protestant ministers^but his keen wit and his learning generally made him dread-ed. Although his own flock was more than enough for hiscare, he was constantly instructing and receiving Protestantsinto the Church. In July, 1805, a priest came to relieve him—one who wasto leave a name never to be forgotten in the annals of the ^ Agreement adopted and signed between the Right Rev. J. Carroll^Bishop of Baltimore, and the Rev. Robert Molyneux. REV. CHARLES NERINCKX. 527 Church. This was the Rev. Charles Nerinckx, a native ofHerffelingen, in Belgium, who, graduated at the Universityof Louvain in 1781, had been ordained to the priesthoodfour years later, at the age of twenty-four. While zealouslydischarging his duties as parish priest of Everberg-Meerbeke,. REV. CHARLES NERINCKX. he was compelled to fly to escape arrest by the French whohad invaded Belgium. Ministering to the faithful by stealthfor some years, he applied at last to Bishop Carroll, and hisservices having been accepted, he crossed the ocean andlanded in Baltimore, October 14, 1804, and was at once as-signed to the laborious mission of Kentucky. In July, 1805, 528 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CARROLL, he joined Eev. Mr. Badin at St. Stephens, and began hisholy and zealous ministry, which left enduring monuments.^Soon after a colony of Trappist monks, under Father UrbanGuillet, reached Kentucky in the autumn, and took up theirresidence on Pottingers Creek, at the foot of Rohans of the priests soon died at St. Stephens, attended byRev. Mr. I^erinckx, and a third followed shortly after theyhad taken possession of their first home. Unfortunately theSuperior was restless and capricious, l^o pl
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