Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice

financially within a few weeks, and she lost another job because, like a boarding house, a boy is going to a school, and the parents didn't like how she disciplined their darlings.

So by chance, he met a French Sulpician priest from Baltimore, Father William Dubourg, who was traveling up to Boston to raise money.

And by chance, they had a conversation at what I say was a dinner party.

And he said, tell me about yourself.

Her two boys were at Georgetown University.

And they came up to Baltimore and went to St. Mary's College, which was like a boys prep.

And in Baltimore for a year, she loved the spirituality, the quiet, the peace, the teaching, and the Sulpician priests were so good to her.

And their whole purpose was to develop the Catholic faith in the United States.

With the Jesuits, on the contrary, he was much pleased and remained attached to them throughout life, won by their courtesy, their learning, and their active benevolence.

Nevertheless, he joined himself to the Sulpicians, a community of secular priests who, far inferior in renown either to the Jesuits or Jansenists, yet commanded universal respect by the unassuming piety with which they devoted their exertions to the service of the church in her most obscure and humble functions, within which modest and useful line of duty they uniformly confined their efforts.

After continuing his studies for some time under the Abbé Trencen, prior of the convent of Saint-Sulpice, Fénelon was ordained priest in that seminary in his twenty-fourth year and passed the three following years in complete retirement.

He then, at the desire of the curate of the parish of Saint-Sulpice, began to deliver a course of familiar explanations of the Old and New Testaments on Sundays and festivals, and these first made him known to the public.

Thus, after having devoted six long years of his ministry in Illinois, from the 14th day of December 1792 up to the 22nd day of March 1798, he left for Detroit, where the presence of a permanent pastor was much needed.

He accordingly arrived at this place in the month of June, on the feast of Corpus Christi, accompanied by the Reverend John Dillett, also a Sulpician missionary.

Mr. Liradou, who had been stationed at this place for several years, was alone in the discharge of his clerical duties, and was quite advanced in years, and had sought relief from his bishop for the purpose of returning to his native land.

As soon as he arrived he immediately entered upon his duties as pastor, and soon won the confidence of those under his spiritual charge.