. Memorial volume of the centenary of St. Mary's Seminary of St. Sulpice, Baltimore, Md. : 1791-1891. born in 1758in the diocese of Angers, had taught theology for twoyears at Viviers, when, in 1791, he was invited byFather Emery to join this little band. In order thatthe projected Seminary might be opened immediately,five Seminarians accompanied the pioneer travelers having chartered an American vessel,sailed from St. Malo in the month of March, andreached Baltimore July 10th, 1791. On the same shipthere was a young Frenchman, then misled by Vol-tairian infidelity, but who, lat
. Memorial volume of the centenary of St. Mary's Seminary of St. Sulpice, Baltimore, Md. : 1791-1891. born in 1758in the diocese of Angers, had taught theology for twoyears at Viviers, when, in 1791, he was invited byFather Emery to join this little band. In order thatthe projected Seminary might be opened immediately,five Seminarians accompanied the pioneer travelers having chartered an American vessel,sailed from St. Malo in the month of March, andreached Baltimore July 10th, 1791. On the same shipthere was a young Frenchman, then misled by Vol-tairian infidelity, but who, later on, consecrating hisbrilliant imagination and fascinating style to the serviceof religion, rendered illustrious the name of Chateau-briand. Father Nagot, with his companions, after lodging foreight days at JN^o. 94,^ Market Street, rented for fivehundred dollars a year a house then known as The ^ Madame Louise, sister of Louis XVI, on different occasions, sought the counselsof Father Nagot. He was also the means of converting several English protestants.^ The house has long since Very Rev. Jacques Andre Emery,Ninth Superior General of St. Suipice. HISTOEICAL SKETCH. 5 One Mile Tavern. This house, with four adjoiningacres of land, was bought in September of the sameyear for $2,, and there, October 3, 1791, theSulpicians of Baltimore formally opened St. MarysSeminary in the same spot that is now occupied bytheir successors in the centre of the city. The spiritualretreat was begun December 10th, and on the 15thof the same month, their first chapel having beendedicated, became the permanent abode of the BlessedSacrament. In the following year, there were two otherarrivals of Sulpicians—March 29th, Fathers Chicois-neau,^ David,^ and Flaget, with two students, Badinand Barret; June 24th, Fathers Marechal, Richard,and Ciquard. Father Dubourg came to Baltimore inDecember, 1794,^ and was admitted into the Societyof St. Sulpice in 1795. All these priests, men ofp
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