History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . priest, andtheir generous help in building the church,caused jealousy in the hearts of the twolocal preachers who considered the priestas an intruder upon the field which theyclaimed their own by was the small chapel completedand dedicated when it was wrecked inthe night by the two preachers. BishopRese writes, concerning this perpetrati
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . priest, andtheir generous help in building the church,caused jealousy in the hearts of the twolocal preachers who considered the priestas an intruder upon the field which theyclaimed their own by was the small chapel completedand dedicated when it was wrecked inthe night by the two preachers. BishopRese writes, concerning this perpetration,to the Leopoldine Society: And yet allthis crying need of books for the Indians,etc., would be easier to contend with than the base persecutions which we have tosuffer in many places of my diocese, frompeople who call themselves Christians. Ican only mention with tears the con-temptible vandalism perpetrated on ourlittle chapel at Sault Ste. Marie. Thewindows were smashed, the sacred vesselsand vestments thrown out, crushed anddestroyed, the missal torn into a thousandfragments, and, after the good FatherHaetscher, without a word of complaint,on the eve of All Saints, repaired the dam-age as best he could, the whole building. Leopoldin BericIUc. TL, 1831, p. 3. KEV. JOSEPH HEBERT, S. J. was set on fire. The loss is for us in-calculable inasmuch as it is very difficultto obtain here utensils which we so in-dispensibly need. The affair has unex-pectedly turned out in our favor; theBaptist and the Methodist preachers werecompelled to seek safety in flight, toescape the vengeance of an angry peoplewho now all sympathize with us. Thusa temporal loss and persecution hasbrought us much spiritual 31, 1834, Bishop Rese confirmed Leopoldin Berchte. IX. p. 42. 46 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF upward of one hundred persons in theSault and this was most likely the firstconfirmation ever given in the place. Lalonde, now a nonagenarian—born in St. Boniface, Man
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