Like Charles, John attended the secret school at Bohemia. Then, in 1748,hewas sentto a school in Flanders administered by English Jesuits. Since his ordination in 1761 he had earned the respect of all and was considered an excellent choice for the new post. Pope Clement XIV abolished the Society of Jesus in 1773. But Empress Catherine of Russia would not allow the decree of Jesuit suppression to be published in her country. Eventually, since the Society was still thriving there, the newly elected Pope Pius Vll issued a bull recognizing and reestablishing the Russian congregation in 1801. Shortly thereafter, Bishop John Carroll and his co-adjutor, Bishop Leonard Neale, both former Jesuits, requested and were given permission to be reinstated in the order and to be associated with the Russian community, together with twelve other former members. The Russian Superior told Bishop Carroll to appoint a Superior for the United States, which was accomplished in June of '1805. Many former members were welcomed back to the fold and some Russian Jesuits immigrated to help establish the fledgling novitiate. Through the suppressed years, the Jesuits had remained a closely knit group and were able to retain their identity. They had, in fact, opened Georgetown University in September of 1799 through the efforls of Bishop Carroll. When Bishop Carroll had visited England (where he was consecrated) and France in 1790, he had arranged for aictin the form of priests, teachers, even some sh.dents, as well as financial suppoft-from the Superior General of the Society of St. Sulpice in Paris. Within the year, these dedicated priests had sailed to Maryland and converted the "One Mile Tavem" on the outskirts of Baltimore into St. Mary's Seminary, which wasthe first institution in this country for the training of <strong>America</strong>n priests. While the bishop was abroad, our country's second convent-that of the discalced Carmelite Sisters from Antwerp-was established in Maryland. (The Sisters were mainly <strong>America</strong>n Sisters who had gone earlier to Europe to join the convent.) Socially, spiritually, financially, politically, exciting things were happening throughout the New World. ln 1787, two Catholics-Thomas FitzSimons and Daniel Carroll, older brother of the bishopparticipated in the creation and signing of the Constitution. ln 1800, the year after our first president's death at Mt. Vernon, our capital was moved from its decade-long residence in Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. During that period, Demetrius Gallitzin (Father Augustine Smith), son of a Russian prince, left a life of privilege in Europe to minister to Christ's People in <strong>America</strong>. The Catholic settlement of Loretto grew out of his work in western Pennsylvania. ln '1803, the Louisiana Purchase, at a cost of fifteen million dollars, doubled our country's land area. At three cents per acre, this 828,000 square mile real estate deal was the best investment since Manhattan lsland. When Mother Theresa Farjon, Superior of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans, wrote to president Thomas Jefferson inquiring about the convent's '15
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