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"Quoad alia a Sacra Congregatione ordinata et decreta, ac praecipue quoad patrem
Archangelum adiunctum patri provinciali provinciae parisiensis in administranda praefectura
missionum et non aliis provinciis plura dicenda occurrunt, sed parco memor causae, memor
temporum, dicam tanturn praeter intentionem et expectationem nostram hoc factum esse, et nescio
quomodo Sacrae Congregationi in mentem venerit illud statuere et patri Archangelo illud ipsum
quantumcumque oblatum acceptare. Quantum ad me attinet deprecor Altissimum ut omnia ad
maiorem Sui gloriam dirigantur in spe contra spem." [See Appendix A for translation.] (Leonard
de La Tour to Francesco Ingoli, Paris, 26 Jan. 1640, Archives of the Sacred Congregation "de
Propaganda Fide," SOCG, vol. 139, f. 80r)."
93 John M. Lenhart, "The Capuchins in Acadia and Northern Maine (1632-1655)," Records of the
American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, XXVII, 3 (September 1916), pp. 191-
229; 4 (December 1916), pp. 300-327; XXVIII, 1 (March 1917), pp. 47-63; 2 (June 1917), p.
184; Lenhart, "An Important Chapter in American Church History (1625-1650)," Catholic
Historical Review, VIII, 4 (January 1929), pp. 500-524; Lenhart, "The Capuchin Prefecture of
New England (1630-1656)," Franciscan Studies, new ser., III, 1 (March 1943), pp. 21-46; 2 (June
1943), pp. 180-195; 3 (September 1943), pp. 306-313. The first of these three articles uses
Propaganda material via Rocco, Storia delle missioni. The second and the third articles draw from
the same documents, consulted in the archives of Propaganda, which are translated into English
in "Important Chapter" and left in the original language in "Capuchin Prefecture."
94 See Luca Codigno1a,"L'America del Nord nei documenti dell'archivio della Sacra Congregazione
'de Propaganda Fide' (1754-1784)," in Giorgio Spini et al., eds., Italia e America dal Settecento
all' eta dell'imperialismo, Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1976, pp. 128-129.
95 See id., p. 140.
96 Lenhart's definition of Pages glorieuses is "[a] standard work" (Lenhart, "Capuchin Prefecture,"
p.44).
97 He had only one citation from Congressi, America Centrale (Lenhart, "Important Chapter,"
p. 506).
98 According to Lenhart, Simon Stock, in his letter of 22 April 1626, wrote that he had "only the
means to reach Genoa" (Lenhart, "Capuchin Prefecture," pp. 23, 181). The original, however,
reads: "[D]ove es piu persecutione che qua et difficulta di fare frotto non puo andare, si non a
Geneva, et andero la, si mi darranno li mezzi necessarii per fare frotto" [See Appendix A for
translation.] (Simon Stock to [Propaganda], London, 22 Apr. 1626, SOCG 28). The town where
Stock wanted to go was then Geneva, the cradle of Calvinism, and not Genoa, which does not
make any sense at all. Furthermore, according to Lenhart George Calvert went to Newfoundland
in 1625 and from the island sent back a report (Lenhart, "Capuchin Prefecture," p. 24). But Lord
Baltimore went to his colony in Avalon in 1627 for the first time, and the 1625 report had been
written by his governor, Sir Arthur Aston (Stock to [Propaganda], Chelsea, 30 Oct. 1625, SOCG
32). In another document, Lenhart read a strange "Hulzi" (Lenhart, "Capuchin Prefecture," p.
192). He should have read "nu. 31" -- a cross reference with item no. 31 of the General
Congregation of 12 January 1629 (Stock to [Propaganda], London, 28 July 1628, SOCG 48).
Inaccuracies and errors of this kind are unfortunately quite common.
99 Claude Vogel, The Capuchins in French Louisiana (1722-1766), Washington, DC: The Catholic
University of America, 1928.
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