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Excerpt from Jubilee of the New York Maryland Province, 1833-1883: Celebrated at Woodstock College, April 17th, 1883
Father John Carroll, afterwards Bishop - the first in our coun try, - writes to his brother from Bruges, six days after the decree Of suppression had been put into execution in that place by the Austrian authorities: I am not and perhaps never shall be re covered from the shock of this dreadful intelligence. The great est blessing which in my estimation 1 could receive from God, would be immediate death: but if He deny me this, may His holy and adorable designs on me be wholly fulfilled. Nearly six years later, when time and new occupations should, if possi ble, have worn out a grief, however strong at the first shock, the same Father writes from Maryland to his Old friend, Fr. Charles Plowden, in England-of renewing the memory Of those happy days I spent with you at Bologna, and should have spent at Bru ges, had not public misfortune damped all sense Of private hap piness. After three years, he again pours out his heart to his friend and sometime brother in religion: What a dreadful havoc did'irreligion make when it tore up, root and branch, that noble establishment, the triumph of zeal, Of humanity and-christianity' You will wonder, my dear Charles, how I could fall into this long dissertation, but really when I write to you, or think on my friends in Europe, my grief and, I fear, indignation, get the better of every consideration: Twenty-seven years after the suppression, in the first of the present century, private letters came to the same venerable head of the little band of former Jesuits, now sadly thinned by death, to inform him that Pope Pius the 6th and his successor have approved viva wee the Society of the Faz't/z. Of jesus. Father Carroll and Father Leonard Neale had at this time been already raised to the episcopal dignity. Seven of the remaining Fathers all that could attend the meeting - at once made application.
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