hundred miles from Philadelphia, late in the evening, to a place called Munster. I went to an inn and asked for my supper and a night's lodging. As I was called from the office, where a great many English-speaking people were gathered together, into a side room, the hostess, as she noticed me making the sign of the Cross, and saying grace before eating, asked me-N. B. in English for the people were Irish-' Are you then a Catholic?' 'Yes,' 'And possibly even a priest.' 'Yes!' 'Now I really thought so when I saw you, and you inquired for Father Gallitzin.' 'Are you Catholics hereabout?' I asked. 'Why certainly; in the entire neighborhood and for many milles around there is not an un-Catholic bone to be found.' And hereupon she ran into the other room. Her husband with cap in hand, which before he had not touched, hunted up a pair of slippers and insisted on taking care of my wet feet which he looked after with a certain ceremony that reminded me of the washing of feet during the early Christian times. "Meanwhile also others came in, among them some Germans, and I was like one at home among friends and acquaintances. When on the following morning after breakfast I spoke of paying, I almost gave offense. Instead of accepting the proffered pay they had a saddled horse in front of the door for me in the custody of a boy who was to show me the way to Loretto through the woods, seven miles distant. We had not gone far into the woods when my guide called, 'Here comes the Priest,' and before me I saw an old reverend gentleman with snow-white hair, wide-brimmed, badly-worn hat, and a coat of homespun twill, but noble in bearing and mien-it was Prince Gallitzin."* Gallitzin approached in a sled, that being the only manner in which he was able to travel, because of an injury which he had received. Father Lemke had a sketch made of this meeting, and an engraving from it for his biography of Gallitzin written some years after Gallitzin's death. He aimed to have the different persons and objects in that picture made as much like the originals as possible, and as there is no portrait of Prince * Ibid. Gallitzin extant, it is likely that this picture gives the best representation of him that we have. In a letter written from Asbach on September 16, 1859, he says of it: "Here is a nice picture for you. It will adorn a biography of Gallitzin which I am going to get printed and represents my first meeting with him between Munster and Loretto in 1834. Do you recognize the old gentleman is his well-known locomotion! The boy with the shillalah pointing with his finger and saying, 'there is the priest coming,' is Tom Collins, but him you will hardly recognize for his is only in half profile, nor Augustine Hott, the driver, who shows no profile at all, neither one way nor the other, having occasion to adjust something at the gears. The very dogs are not forgotten. Ask Tom whether he remembers them. I do, and remember how the plebeian cur of Munster was worried by the clerical mastiff."'* Gallitzin was on his way to one of his parishioners to say Mass, and Father Lemke was invited to accompany him. Gallitzin's object in saying Mass in a private house at such a comparatively short distance from his church, probably was to enable some person confined to the house to be present at the Holy Sacrifice, and to give persons who could not travel over bad roads an opportunity to receive the Sacraments. Father Lemke, in describing the affair, says that he was much edified by all that he had seen, and that it reminded him very much of what is recorded about the Christian Church in its primitive days. A number of people had gathered together, and the first thing Gallitzin did, after his arrival, was to hear their confessions. He then celebrated Mass on a bureau for an altar which was covered with white linen, and had on it a crucifix and two home-made wax candles; during the Mass he gave Communion to the assembled people. After the services they dined with the family in whose house Mass had been celebrated, and then Father Lemke accompanied Prince Gallitzin to Loretto. The following day, being Sunday, Father Lemke assisted Prince Gallitzin in his duties in the church. Gallitzin spent * Lemke-Johnson correspondence in archives of AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. the early morning in hearing confessions, said the early Mass, and asked Father Lemke to celebrate High Mass at ten o'clock. After the Gospel, Prince Gallitzin came to the altar and preached an English sermon, at the close of which he introduced Father Lemke to the Germans and told them that he would preach to them. Father Lemke had not expected to be called upon to preach, but did the best he could, and afterwards complained to Father Gallitzin at having been called to speak extemporaneously, but the Prince quietly replied "I only wanted to see whether you were made for a Missionary who ought to be ready at any time." How long Father Lemke remained at Loretto I have been unable to ascertain; but I am inclined to think, only for a few days. He probably went on to Pittsburg, and may have stopped at Blairsville and at Sportsman's Hall. He returned to Philadelphia, where he arrived some time in the early part of December. Meanwhile, both Prince Gallitzin of Loretto and Father Masquelet of Pittsburg had written to Bishop Kenrick for assistant priests, and Prince Gallitzin had apparently mentioned Father Lemke as the person whom he would like to have for assistant. During Father Lemke's absence from Philadelphia a German priest had arrived from Switzerland, and the bishop had sent him to Holy Trinity for the time being. It was therefore easy for the bishop to adjust matters so as to permit Father Lemke to go into the western part of the diocese. The bishop gave him his choice either to remain in Philadelphia or go west, and Father Lemke decided to take up his work either in Pittsburg or with Father Gallitzin. He first went to Pittsburg to assist Father Masquelet; but was not long in discovering that he was not well adapted to city. work. He, therefore, after a very short stay in Pittsburg, went to Loretto and presented himself to Prince Gallitzin for duty as assistant. Almost immediately upon his arrival at Loretto Prince Gallitzin took him to Ebensburg and installed him there as resident priest. This was a surprise to Father Lemke, as he had expected to remain with Prince Gallitzin at Loretto and attend the outlying posts from there. Bishop Kenrick had |