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THE NEW BISHOP II5

D.D., Bishop of Bruges. The bishop-elect, a narive of
Ypres, was not quite forty but he had already won wide
recognition as an outstanding professor oi dogmatic
theology. After having compleled his studies h.o*e,
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he taught for two years at the diocesan seminary
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in B-ruges before being summoned to join the faculty oi
theology at Louvain.
On, May first, 1849, John Baptist Malou, rvas conse-
crated. In the Ryken correspondence there is no men-
tion of this event. The first reference to the new Shep-
herd oI the Flock is in a letter to Father pelsers who wis
on the stafi of the normal school at St. Trond:
May 14, 1849
Monsieur le Professeur:
I take the respectful liberty ro ask you to be good
enough to write the words of a choral piece to be
our pupils in honor of the Bishop of Bruges
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for his patronal feast.
I would like very much to have Father
Jehin,
whose address I do not know, compose the husic
for three voices.'
In the text you will perhaps be able to menrion
the brillianr relations of Hii Excellency with the
University and likewise the fact that he was born
in this diocese, where he already enjoys great popu-
larity.

Suddenly Mr. Ryken found himself enmeshed in the
sort of trouble where the sound of youthful voices sing_
ing a choral number written for the occasion would b'e
of no help. May rwenty-ninth he dashed ofi a plea
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for help and counsel to Father Van de Kerckhove who
was. at the Jesuit house in Ghent.