Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . y, which was expressed by Bishop Cheveruswhen he wrote : That you may for many years wear thisvesture of holiness is the wish of all your children in JesusChrist, and God in his mercy will, I hope, hear their prayersand prolong the life of our beloved and venerable Father. When Archbishop Carroll and his suffragans separated 1 Bishop Cheverus to Archbishop Carroll, October 3, 1811; BishopCarroll to Father Chas. Plowden, January 27,1812 ; Certificate of BishopNeale ; Archbishop Carroll to Cardinal Pietro, 18
Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . y, which was expressed by Bishop Cheveruswhen he wrote : That you may for many years wear thisvesture of holiness is the wish of all your children in JesusChrist, and God in his mercy will, I hope, hear their prayersand prolong the life of our beloved and venerable Father. When Archbishop Carroll and his suffragans separated 1 Bishop Cheverus to Archbishop Carroll, October 3, 1811; BishopCarroll to Father Chas. Plowden, January 27,1812 ; Certificate of BishopNeale ; Archbishop Carroll to Cardinal Pietro, 1812. 654 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CARROLL. after their meeting at Baltimore in 1810, it was agreedamong them that a provincial council should be held notlater than the first of I^ovember, 1812. Meanwhile BishopsCheverus, Flaget, and Egan had assumed the direction oftheir respective dioceses, and questions had arisen in Ken-tucky and Pennsylvania which Bishop Flaget and BishopEgan thought well to have settled in a council. In Ken-tucky Bishop Flaget had visited all the churches and stations. INTERIOR OF ST. JOSEPHS CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA[From an old water-color preserved ihere.] in the State, obtaining a personal knowledge of the conditionand wants of the main part of his large diocese. Questionsarose as to the tenure of church property, in which theBishop and his Yicar-General, Yery Rev. Stephen T. Badin,were far from entertaining harmonious views, and the pre-cise relations of the episcopate to regular orders was to beadjusted. Bishop Egan had also made a visitation of hisdiocese, crossing the mountains and reaching Pittsburg. AtSt. Marys church, which he had selecte*d as his pro-cathe-dral, the trustees had already evinced a disposition to treat A PROPOSED COUNCIL. 655 the head of the diocese as a hireling whose maintenance de-pended on their option. Moreover, he had found priests,whom he had placed in his pro-cathedral, refractory and in-clined to take part against him. Investigation
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